Our Providers
Brynn Bottalico, LMHC
Clinical Supervisor
Theoretical Orientation
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT), Psychodynamic, Mindfulness-Based, Rational Emotive Behavior (REBT), Motivational Interviewing, Humanistic, Dialectical Behavior (DBT), and Nervous-System Informed.
Brynn is an interactive, collaborative and solution-focused therapist. Her approach is trauma informed, anti-racism and LGBTQIA affirming. She strives to provide unconditional support and practical, realistic feedback to help clients, families and couples effectively address life challenges and meet their goals. Each client will receive an individualized approach and treatment plan in a safe, comfortable and confidential setting. With empathy and compassion at the forefront of her work, Brynn utilizes a collaborative approach to help each individual build on their strengths, understand their weaknesses and attain the personal growth they are committed to accomplishing.
Brynn provides all her patients with a safe, judgment free space to talk through their stressors and challenges. It is Brynn’s goal to make every client feel seen and understood. She helps children, teens, young adults and couples make big decisions, adjust to new life changes and better understand their behaviors. Brynn works to help all her clients better understand how their past impacts their current thoughts, feelings and behaviors. She is dedicated to helping all her clients feel empowered and ready to make the changes they want to in their life. Brynn believes it is important for each person to be able to process, understand and heal from their past while actively working on their current thoughts, feelings and behaviors.
Brynn Bottalico is a psychotherapist who specializes in the treatment of anxiety, bipolar disorder, panic attacks, depression, life transitions, self esteem and stress management. Women’s issues such as how the menstruation cycle may be impacting mood as well as abortion are issues she works with. Brynn is also well versed in the treatment of addictive behaviors and challenges that come with substance use and abuse. The individuals she specializes in working with are between the ages of 10 and 30. Brynn also works with parents and children to improve relationships and family dynamics.
Outside of psychotherapy, Brynn is a runner, reader and writer. Brynn enjoys spending time with loved ones, both two and four legged. Brynn loves people watching, traveling, mint chocolate chip ice cream and everything to do with swimming and the ocean. Summer is her favorite season and she is currently working on disconnecting from her phone when she isn’t working.
Michele Lanza, LMHC
Theoretical Orientation
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MCCT), Hypnotherapy, Humanistic, psychoanalytic
Michele creates a warm, welcoming, nonjudgmental environment for her clients to bring about insight, healing, and change. She is goal oriented and relies on an eclectic approach tailored to meet each unique person’s needs.
Michele believes that grace lies in the moment of the first thought to make things better. She helps clients work through blocks that have been holding them back and helps them to get “un-stuck” to make change. For adults with anxiety, depression, trauma, and lack of motivation she encourages healing with self exploration and release of limiting beliefs to restore well-being.
Through the use of traditional counseling techniques and hypnotherapy. Michele compassionately brings healing to the root cause of symptoms. She believes very often the solutions we need lie inside of us. She empowers her clients to connect to their own inner guidance, a wellspring of healing, wisdom, and peace that is ever present but quietly residing in each of us. She finds great satisfaction in seeing her clients transform and move toward confidence, self-trust, balance, and success.
Michele holds a Master’s degree and a professional diploma beyond a masters degree in Mental Health Counseling from Hofstra University. She is a Certified Hypnotherapist from both the American Board of Hypnotherapy and International Certification Board of clinical Hypnotherapy. She is a National Board Certified Counselor, Member of American Counseling Association, Nondenominational Ordained Minister, Certified Energy Healer, intuitive Counselor, and Meditation teacher. She believes in the power of the heart and mind for healing and if you can “see” it you can “be it”.
Michele loves spending time with her family and going out for delicious meals with friends. She loves being active playing volleyball, tennis, golf, and snowboarding. She finds peace in meditation and being near the water and nature.
Anna Marie Fennell, LMHC
Theoretical Orientaion
Psychodynamic, Existential, Jungian, Transpersonal,Mindfulness-Based, Creative Arts (music, painting, cinema), Cognitive Behavioral (CBT), Rational Emotive Behavior (REBT), Dialectical Behavior (DBT), and Nervous-System Informed.
Along with all of the above, Anna Marie is LGBTQIA+ affirming (using she/they pronouns) and committed to social-justice oriented work — rooted in an awareness of how systems of racism, sexism, anti-queerness, fatphobia, and monogamy all affect how we view ourselves and others. When working with partners, Anna Marie also uses elements of Attachment Theory and the Gottman Method. Either with a single client or multiple, she always tries to find the best fit + combination for each client’s clinical concern and personality style.
As a psychotherapist, Anna Marie helps her clients discover the root of their concerns through storytelling, reflecting on their values and desires, and developing insight around what ways they’ve adapted to being in the world. They work together with their clients to create a space that feels warm, safe, and healing — and ultimately restores a sense of joy, play, and hope. She teaches patients how to be curious about emotional patterns, how to communicate effectively, and develop tools to slow down when life inevitably gets overwhelming.
Before earning her M.Ed. in Mental Health Counseling at Columbia University, Anna Marie studied cognitive psychology, philosophy, and linguistics. She also attended a performing arts high school where she had four intensive years of training in voice, theatre, and dance. They’re a life-long artist and researcher, and always excited to work with artists (professional or otherwise) exploring the unique stressors and ways of thinking that are tied up in being a creative person — but also helping folks that are scientifically minded to understand the mechanisms involved in psychology and mental wellbeing. All of her unique interests allow her to be sincerely curious and equipped with multi-faceted ways of conceptualizing a client.
Anna Marie also has an Advanced Certificate in Sexuality, Women, & Gender with an LGBTQ+ focus. As a queer-identifying person, they have first-hand experience with the challenges that come with making sense of fluid identities that fall outside of the norm and finding ways to find strength and joy in spite of them.
Anna Marie is an artist, and a certified meditation and yoga instructor. They love watching films with their long-distance partner, going to art museums, listening to a wide-range of music, watercolor painting, playing video games and board games like chess, and traveling to new cities and countries. Her hometown is Lakeland, FL so she has a soft spot for the serenity of the ocean… and also the thrill of a good roller coaster.
Marcie Maguire, MHC-LP
Theoretical Orientaion
Integrative Therapy, Dialectic Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Person-Centered Therapy (PCT), Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SBFT), Mindfulness-Based, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Psychodynamic, and trauma-informed.
Marcie is an integrative, goal-oriented, and collaborative psychotherapist. She demonstrates a commitment to fostering a warm, safe, nonjudgmental, and collaborative environment for her clients. In her work with both individuals, couples, and non-monogamous relationships, Marcie employs a sex therapy-informed, trauma-informed, kink-affirming, and LGBTQIA+ affirming approach. By using an integrative approach, Marcie provides tailored treatment to each individual and relationship based on their desires and goals.
As an integrative psychotherapist, Marcie curates therapy sessions to meet each individual’s needs. She is dedicated to creating a safe space to explore one’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Marcie believes that within therapy, creating goals that align with one’s values that ultimately improve one’s well-being is the foundational basis of the therapeutic work.
In her sessions, Marcie is passionate about meeting her patients where they are at; she respects client’s autonomy to discuss and process what they choose to. She places an emphasis on examining and improving one’s relationship with others and themselves, as well as their possible maladaptive cognitions and behaviors. Marcie works collaboratively with clients to develop effective tools and strategies to overcome one’s obstacles or stressors. Additionally, she focuses on processing past events that impact present day habits in order to optimize one’s future. She believes strengthening self-awareness and self-acceptance is crucial to creating this lasting positive change.
Marcie specializes in sex therapy, as well as treating anxiety, depression, life transition difficulties, relational difficulties, self-esteem, and stress management. She works with individuals, couples, and non-monogamous/alternative relationships, ranging from ages 15 to 35. Marcie is passionate about her work with clients and puts a great emphasis on creating a supporting and safe relationship with each client.
Outside of therapy sessions, Marcie enjoys spending time with family, friends, and animals. Marcie loves going to new restaurants, watching movies and television shows on a rainy (or sunny) day, and listening to all genres of music. As a former collegiate athlete, she loves being active and spends time swimming, using the peloton, pilates, golfing, and skiing.
Gwyn Wheeler, MHC-LP
Theoretical Orientation
Psychodynamic, Relational Therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior (DBT), and trauma-informed.
Gwyn practices from an integrative, compassionate, and adaptive perspective. She aims to generate an environment of curiosity and collaboration in order to help patients meet their goals. Gwyn frames her therapeutic approach through a structural, systemic lens and is committed to recognizing the pervasive impact of the external world on the patient and their unique story. When working with both individuals and couples, Gwyn is identity-affirming and strives to provide an unconditionally empathetic, supportive, and safe therapeutic space.
Gwyn believes that therapeutic change stems from integration. Her work as a psychotherapist surrounds drawing back the blinds and warmly welcoming and utilizing what is typically unseen, unheard, and sometimes difficult to engage with. With this, Gwyn strives to help her patients gently unearth their roots to better understand their emotions, motivations, behaviors, relational patterns, and mental challenges. She hopes to facilitate creative and curious conversations about the here and now as well as encourage communication between her clients and their adaptive internal worlds and how these mechanisms impact mental wellbeing. In a collaborative, safe, and warm environment, Gwyn hopes to empower her clients through building understanding of their internal worlds, compassion for their thoughts and emotions, and openness to integration of their multi-faceted self.
Gwyn specializes in the treatment of mood disorders, trauma recovery, life transitions, relationship difficulties, and identity issues. Gwyn also has a specialized focus on LGBTQ+ and gender issues and works with each client’s unique identity to conceptualize and generate insight into what support, positive coping skills, strength, and loving acceptance looks like to them. Gwyn is trained in a number of behavioral and mindfulness-based interventions and utilizes such techniques as needed through collaboration with her clients. Gwyn believes that through overall integration we may unlock psychological depth, knowledge, and power to achieve our goals and live as our aspired selves.
Outside of the therapy room, Gwyn is a music producer and songwriter. She also enjoys creative writing, reading, cooking, and spending time with family, friends, and partner. She feels most like herself when learning a new skill so she is currently attempting to learn how to bake bread and grow an herb garden.
Jeremy Johnson, MHC-LP
Theoretical Orientaion
Emotion-focused therapy (EFT), Psychodynamic, Mindfulness-Based, and IFS (Internal Family Systems).
Jeremy works with adults, families, couples, and adolescents to create a safe, welcoming, and collaborative environment that promotes healing and fosters growth. He passionately believes that every person deserves the opportunity to see a dedicated and nonjudgmental therapist, regardless of identity or background. He therefore works to collaborate with each client not only according to their individual needs but within the parameters of their culture, beliefs, and experiences.
As an EFT therapist, Jeremy regards difficult emotions not just as painful burdens but as important sources of information and guidance. Psychodynamic inquiry helps not only to provide insight but to begin the process of healing old personal wounds that may have gone unseen, unacknowledged, or forgotten. Borrowing from the work of Tara Brach and other Buddhism-inspired teachers, he helps clients confront emotional challenges in ways that many have found to be revelatory. Jeremy’s process has helped clients to overcome depression, anxiety, ADHD, grief, shame, anger, substance use issues, panic attacks, LGBTQ+ issues, and more.
Jeremy is a former actor who continues to take in theater, ballet, movies, and music. He and his partner can typically be found either experimenting with new recipes at home or enjoying the incredible restaurants in their neighborhood. Jeremy loves exploring the city, stopping to pet all the friendly dogs he finds along the way.
Keara Meyerson, MHC-LP
Theoretical Orientaion
Integrative Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Person-Centered Therapy (PCT), Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), Humanistic, Relational Therapy, Trauma Informed
Keara is a collaborative, relational, and strengths-based therapist. She works to guide her patient’s safely and empathetically through the therapeutic process of self-exploration, understanding that this can be a profoundly difficult, yet fulfilling, experience. In her work with clients, families, and couples, Keara employs a trauma-informed, anti-racist, and LGBTQIA+-affirming approach. Keara views her patient’s narratives as uniquely their own and uses an integrative therapeutic approach to create individualized treatment plans.
Keara’s approach is grounded by non judgement. working collaboratively with individuals at their own pace as they explore and understand their inner thoughts and emotions. She believes that the patient-therapist relationship is significant and works from the start to create a warm and safe environment that fosters a strong bond. It is important to her that patients feel comfortable and heard as they express their fears and goals, some of which they might have never shared with others. Keara strives to empower individuals to examine their relationship with themselves and others, develop coping skills and strategies, and learn how to communicate more effectively.
Keara treats anxiety, depression, life transitions, relationship difficulties, poor self-esteem, and stress management. Additionally, she works with individuals who feel the social and financial pressures and stressors of living in New York City. Keara works with individuals, couples, and families developing tailored treatment plans to address their unique needs. Keara has a lifelong passion for mental health and believes that all patients have the potential to meet their goals and live the life that they aspire to have.
Outside of the practice, Keara loves spending time with friends, visiting her family and dog in Connecticut, running, traveling, and reading. She is an avid foodie who loves trying (and rating) new restaurants with the people she loves. Keara’s happy place is eating a sandwich and listening to Kacey Musgraves on the beach.
Sharon Gary, MHC-LP
Theoretical orientation
Trauma informed psychodynamic therapy, mindfulness, parts work, somatic approaches, and CBT.
Sharon works with each client to build a warm, collaborative, and respectful relationship. Using a holistic approach tailored to each person’s needs, she works with adults of all ages – from young to middle aged to seniors, LGBTQIA+, within a social justice framework. With curiosity, kindness, compassion, and sensitivity, Sharon works with individuals so that they can understand themselves better and have greater insight into why they do what they do.
Sharon will work together with clients to empower them to live their best lives, building on their gifts and strengths. Patients who work with Sharon have reported feeling calmer, more at peace, have improved boundaries in their relationships, make decisions more easily, and sleep better at night. Sharon works with clients to recognize and tame their inner critics, deepen self-knowledge, and find increased self-acceptance. Clients can learn to manage stress more effectively using simple, easy to use tools, like breathwork, mindful awareness, and/or grounding exercises.
Sharon is passionate about working with people who have experienced trauma, complex PTSD, anxiety, and depression. Clients may feel numb, sad, depressed, lonely, or stressed out. They may be sleeping poorly, feeling worried, nervous, have health challenges, or have a hunch that they’re suffering from the effects of trauma. Many patients struggle with self-criticism, perfectionism, or have difficulty inrelationships.
Sharon has worked with professionals, people with medical histories, creatives, and people going through life or career transitions. She strives to build a supportive, collaborative relationship with each person using evidence-based, trauma informed therapy.
In addition to her training and experience as a Mental Health Counselor, Sharon has worked as a physical and yoga therapist for over 20 years in NYC, where she integrated mind-body and somatic approaches, including breath work, deep relaxation, and mindfulness. A holistic, mind-body approach is central to her work as a psychotherapist.
Sharon moved to New York from Austin, Texas where she worked as a contemporary dancer, which then led to physical and yoga therapies, and from there to psychotherapy. Sharon loves to hang out with friends and her black adopted cat, Gilbert. She has been an avid reader since she was a kid and is currently into genre fiction – police procedurals, mysteries, thrillers, and hard boiled fiction.
Anna Marie Fennell
Theoretical Orientation
Psychodynamic, Existential, Jungian, Transpersonal,Mindfulness-Based, Creative Arts (music, painting, cinema), Cognitive Behavioral (CBT), Rational Emotive Behavior (REBT), Dialectical Behavior (DBT), and Nervous-System Informed.
Along with all of the above, Anna Marie is LGBTQIA+ affirming (using she/they pronouns) and committed to social-justice oriented work — rooted in an awareness of how systems of racism, sexism, anti-queerness, fatphobia, and monogamy all affect how we view ourselves and others. When working with partners, Anna Marie also uses elements of Attachment Theory and the Gottman Method. Either with a single client or multiple, she always tries to find the best fit + combination for each client’s clinical concern and personality style.
Approach
As a psychotherapist, Anna Marie helps her clients discover the root of their concerns through storytelling, reflecting on their values and desires, and developing insight around what ways they’ve adapted to being in the world. They work together with their clients to create a space that feels warm, safe, and healing — and ultimately restores a sense of joy, play, and hope. She teaches patients how to be curious about emotional patterns, how to communicate effectively, and develop tools to slow down when life inevitably gets overwhelming.
Before earning her M.Ed. in Mental Health Counseling at Columbia University, Anna Marie studied cognitive psychology, philosophy, and linguistics. She also attended a performing arts high school where she had four intensive years of training in voice, theatre, and dance. They’re a life-long artist and researcher, and always excited to work with artists (professional or otherwise) exploring the unique stressors and ways of thinking that are tied up in being a creative person — but also helping folks that are scientifically minded to understand the mechanisms involved in psychology and mental wellbeing. All of her unique interests allow her to be sincerely curious and equipped with multi-faceted ways of conceptualizing a client.
Anna Marie also has an Advanced Certificate in Sexuality, Women, & Gender with an LGBTQ+ focus. As a queer-identifying person, they have first-hand experience with the challenges that come with making sense of fluid identities that fall outside of the norm and finding ways to find strength and joy in spite of them.
About Anna Marie
Anna Marie is an artist, and a certified meditation and yoga instructor. They love watching films with their long-distance partner, going to art museums, listening to a wide-range of music, watercolor painting, playing video games and board games like chess, and traveling to new cities and countries. Her hometown is Lakeland, FL so she has a soft spot for the serenity of the ocean… and also the thrill of a good roller coaster.
Brynn Bottalicom
Theoretical Orientation
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT), Psychodynamic, Mindfulness-Based, Rational Emotive Behavior (REBT), Motivational Interviewing, Humanistic, Dialectical Behavior (DBT), and Nervous-System Informed.
Brynn is an interactive, collaborative and solution-focused therapist. Her approach is trauma informed, anti-racism and LGBTQIA affirming. She strives to provide unconditional support and practical, realistic feedback to help clients, families and couples effectively address life challenges and meet their goals. Each client will receive an individualized approach and treatment plan in a safe, comfortable and confidential setting. With empathy and compassion at the forefront of her work, Brynn utilizes a collaborative approach to help each individual build on their strengths, understand their weaknesses and attain the personal growth they are committed to accomplishing. Her approach is trauma informed, anti-racism and LGBTQIA affirming.
Approach
Brynn provides all her patients with a safe, judgment free space to talk through their stressors and challenges. It is Brynn’s goal to make every client feel seen and understood. She helps children, teens, young adults and couples make big decisions, adjust to new life changes and better understand their behaviors. Brynn works to help all her clients better understand how their past impacts their current thoughts, feelings and behaviors. She is dedicated to helping all her clients feel empowered and ready to make the changes they want to in their life. Brynn believes it is important for each person to be able to process, understand and heal from their past while actively working on their current thoughts, feelings and behaviors.
Brynn Bottalicomis a psychotherapist who specializes in the treatment of anxiety, bipolar disorder, panic attacks, depression, life transitions, self esteem and stress management. Women’s issues such as how the menstruation cycle may be impacting mood as well as abortion are issues she works with. Brynn is also well versed in the treatment of addictive behaviors and challenges that come with substance use and abuse. The individuals she specializes in working with are between the ages of 10 and 30. Brynn also works with parents and children to improve relationships and family dynamics.
About Brynn Bottalicom
Outside of psychotherapy, Brynn is a runner, reader and writer. Brynn enjoys spending time with loved ones, both two and four legged. Brynn loves people watching, traveling, mint chocolate chip ice cream and everything to do with swimming and the ocean. Summer is her favorite season and she is currently working on disconnecting from her phone when she isn’t working.
Brittany Blecher, MHC-LP
Theoretical Orientation
Psychodynamic, relational, trauma-informed, mindfulness, behavioral, existential, and group therapies.
Brittany uses an integrative approach incorporating techniques from the above orientations with a multicultural, feminist, and anti-oppressive lens. She is dedicated to providing both individuals and couples/partners safe, compassionate care and a space to be heard, have their emotions validated, and feel empowered to be their authentic selves.
As a therapist, Brittany hopes to assist clients in achieving a life of satisfaction, pleasure, and meaningful relationships. She believes early developmental experiences inform how we see ourselves, our interactions with others, and our response to the world around us. By exploring such experiences together, Brittany helps clients uncover the interpersonal, environmental, and cultural influences that have shaped their lives. She understands the importance of the therapeutic relationship to the success of treatment and uses a warm, empathetic, curious, non-judgmental, and challenging approach.
Brittany collaborates with clients on their growth, development, and healing by addressing various concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, self-esteem, life transitions, and identity issues. Brittany primarily works with adults and also has specialties with emerging adulthood and interpersonal group therapy aimed at helping clients improve their relational dynamics.
In her free time, Brittany stays active through Muay Thai, biking around the city, and exploring places both near and far. She values spending time connecting with friends and family.
