Meet the Team That’s Here for You

Amanda is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and Clinical Director with over a decade of experience helping individuals and families navigate life’s challenges. Using CBT and a client-centered, collaborative approach, she supports clients in building skills and creating lasting change. She has a special passion for working with parents of teens and young professionals, and provides compassionate care for anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, relationship issues, and life stressors.

Becca is a therapist, care coordinator and former musical theater actress who specializes in supporting performers, creatives, and others navigating trauma, anxiety, depression, OCD, eating disorders, and life challenges. She takes a relational, client-centered approach, believing that authentic connection is central to healing. With warmth and compassion, Becca creates a safe, inclusive space for clients to explore growth, healing, and creative confidence.

Brittany is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) who integrates CBT, DBT, ACT, and SFT with a holistic approach to provide compassionate, supportive therapy for teens and adults navigating life’s challenges. She creates a warm, welcoming, and collaborative environment where clients can explore their emotions, build insight, deepen self-awareness, and develop coping strategies that lead to meaningful, lasting change.

Chloe Shea is a clinical resident and office administrator at Westchester Parent and Child Therapy. She takes an empathetic, authentic, and collaborative approach, drawing from family systems theory, person-centered care, and CBT. Chloe creates a safe space where clients feel seen, supported, and empowered to navigate challenges, deepen self-understanding, and strengthen connections with others.

Donna is an LMSW and Psychotherapist who works with couples, families, children, adolescents, and adults across various life stages. Donna shares a comforting and supportive environment while utilizing a holistic and collaborative approach. Donna’s experience includes providing Couples Therapy, Family Therapy, Play Therapy, CBT, MBCT, Parent Coaching, Life Coaching, Executive Functioning Coaching, Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE), Internal Family Systems (IFS), The Gottmans Approach for couples and Family Therapy, Sue Johnson’s Attachment Focused Therapy EFIT and EFCT for Individuals and couples. Donna creates a warm, collaborative space to develop strategies that build confidence and lasting change.

Emily is a LP-MHC pursuing her Master’s in Mental Health Counseling at Manhattan University. She combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with a client-centered approach to help clients shift unhelpful patterns, build resilience, and foster meaningful change. As a career changer herself, Emily brings empathy and lived experience to support clients in navigating uncertainty, clarifying their values, and pursuing authentic growth.

Erika Kessel, LMSW, offers warm, thoughtful, and individualized therapy for children and adults. Grounded in a psychodynamic approach, she helps clients explore patterns, relationships, and life experiences to develop greater insight and connection. She has a special interest in supporting women through life transitions, including pregnancy, motherhood, and changes in identity

Garrett Lugiano views therapy as a collaborative journey, a space where he and his clients can work together to slow down and understand the cognitive patterns, motivations, and behaviors that drive them. Sometimes, it can all feel beyond their ability to manage. He is here to break things down with his clients, support them, and offer what he knows to help them achieve their goals. With his passion for psychological research, his clients can rest assured that his interventions are evidence-based and up-to-date.

Gracie is a clinical resident pursuing her Master’s in Counseling for Mental Health and Wellness at New York University. She draws from person-centered, CBT, psychodynamic, and somatic approaches to support children, pre-teens, teens, and adults navigating anxiety, chronic stress, identity, and life transitions. She brings warmth, compassion, joy, and a genuine presence to her work, creating space for clients to better understand themselves, build resilience, and find greater joy and purpose.

Irina is a career changer and MSW student at New York University with over 20 years of experience in corporate leadership and human resources. She combines her passion for coaching and mentorship with social work training to help working parents, individuals, and families foster equal parenting, strong relationships, and meaningful personal and professional growth.

Jocelyn is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and has worked with individuals and families through all different stages of life. Jocelyn focuses on creating a judgement-free space and uses a mix of client-centered and CBT to help clients during their healing journey. She believes that everyone has a unique story, and will tailor treatment to honor your goals for therapy.

Julia is an LMSW and psychotherapist supporting children, adolescents, adults, and families, with a focus on mothers and infants. She brings a warm, collaborative, and trauma-informed approach, drawing on training in family therapy, play therapy, CBT, SPACE, attachment-based interventions, and grief support.

Leah Katznelson is a Marriage and Family Therapist-in-training pursuing her Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy at Iona University’s New York Presbyterian Iona School of Health Sciences. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in Architecture and Film, bringing a creative and systems-oriented perspective to her clinical work. With over a decade of experience in perinatal support as a certified birth doula, childbirth educator, and lactation counselor, Leah has supported individuals and families through pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and other significant life transitions. Her work is grounded in a compassionate, inclusive, and relational approach that fosters growth, resilience, and connection.

Silvana is a pre-licensed MSW candidate who spent two decades as a magazine editor-in-chief and bestselling cookbook author. Curious and engaging, she works with teens and adults navigating life transitions, anxiety, grief and loss, midlife, and the toll of over-functioning. Her approach is trauma-informed, drawing on narrative and somatic, nervous-system-focused work to help clients feel safe enough to co-create change and spaciousness. She believes healing is relational and hopes every client leaves feeling more at home in themselves.

Sloan Post, LCSW, is a psychotherapist supporting children, parents, and families through life’s challenges and transitions. She combines training in perinatal mental health, trauma-focused care, and evidence-based practices with a warm, collaborative approach to foster healing, growth, and connection.