Kim Hertz, LCSW-R

Founder, Psychotherapist

Kim aims to create a space that allows you to feel safe, supported and challenged. Her style is interactive and dynamic, incorporating an awareness of the past with a focus on the present. She sees her ongoing role as a collaborator, helping you to uncover the difficult and stuck spaces in order to live a more authentic, enjoyable and functional life.

Kim is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker based in New York City specializing in individual and couples psychotherapy. Kim holds a Master’s degree in Social Work from Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College and completed post-graduate training at the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies. Additionally, Kim holds a Juris Doctor degree from Brooklyn Law School and practices in the areas of alternative dispute resolution and mediation. Specialized trainings include certification in Levels 1-3 EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) for working with trauma and Maternal Mental Health focusing on fertility issues, miscarriage and neonatal loss.

Celina Chelala, LCSW

Psychotherapist

Celina helps clients work on increasing self-esteem by building self-compassion and self-acceptance. She uses the therapeutic relationship as a way to experience positive connection. Celina believes relational work is often a starting point to a sense of well-being and belonging outside of the therapy room. As a facilitator and companion in this process, she supports you on your path towards healing and creating a life that honors and reflects your truest self.

Celina is bilingual (English/Spanish) and has a holistic mind/body perspective. She is certified in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) Essential Skills 1, and combines talk therapy with parts work and other body-based techniques including breathwork, mindfulness, and gentle movement.

She works collaboratively with people experiencing depression, anxiety, bipolar I and II, and those who have experienced childhood sexual/physical/emotional trauma, and neglect. She also focuses on the areas of life transitions, grief and loss, relationship issues and codependency, and sexual orientation and identity. Celina is licensed in NY, DC, and MD.

Caroline Goan, MFT-LP

Psychotherapist

Caroline believes that every person has within themselves an inherent wisdom, and the capacity to heal, grow and thrive. With an open-heart and empathetic approach, Caroline collaborates with her clients to explore their inner worlds and outer relationships as a path to self-discovery, transformation and healing. Deeply curious, she pursues an understanding of each client’s unique story, and provides tools to help her clients uncover how past and present experiences influence what makes us who we are.

Oriented from a depth psychological perspective, Caroline also draws from attachment, family systems and psychodynamic theories to help her clients understand and unblock patterns that may be keeping them stuck and unfulfilled. Caroline earned her master’s in Counseling Psychology, with an emphasis in clinical counseling and Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. 

Mike Ackerman, LMSW

Psychotherapist

Mike recognizes that reaching out for support can be uncomfortable, and he aims to provide a warm environment in which clients feel empowered to share their past and present experiences. Through empathic listening, Mike helps clients recognize behaviors and patterns that inhibit their growth and collaborate on actions that move them towards healing and healthy functioning. Mike’s work is collaborative and solution-focused to help each individual navigate any blocks to personal growth.

Mike has experience working with clients with a wide range of challenges, including anxiety, depression, general and sexual identity, trauma, and ADHD as  well as experience working with the LGBTQIA+ community.

Mike works with adults, children and adolescents, as well as their parents/guardians. Mike holds a Masters in Social Work with a clinical focus from the Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service.

Madison Kille, LMSW

Psychotherapist

Madison aims to provide you with the space and support to grow into your most authentic self. Madison’s style is warm and expressive, leading with curiosity and humor while also holding you accountable to your goals. Her approach to therapy is highly collaborative, drawing from relational, psychodynamic, and anti-oppressive practices to help you navigate through whatever stands in the way of a more meaningful and fulfilling life. 

Madison works with clients experiencing a wide range of issues such as anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma, low self-esteem, gender and sexual identity, work-related stress, and relationship and dating concerns. Madison holds a Master’s degree in Social Work from the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College. She has completed trainings at the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy focused on sex therapy, psychodynamics, and anti-oppression. Madison is committed to an LGBTQ+ affirming, anti-oppressive, anti-racist, sex-positive, body-positive, and kink-friendly practice of radical acceptance for all her clients.

Minahil Salam, LMSW

Psychotherapist

Minahil believes in the ability of therapy to be a healing and transformative experience. Through empathetic listening and a collaborative process, Minahil believes that people can use the therapeutic space to gain greater understanding of themselves, their journey, tools to cope, and explore their relations to others. She looks at an individual in the context of their environment rather than a singular moving force, and believes in the power of relational healing. She uses a psychodynamic and attachment approach, as well as the Gottman Method. 

Minahil works with individuals and couples on a range of issues including anxiety, depression, relationship and family conflict, intimacy, childhood trauma, career stress, creative ruts, among others. Minahil is a second generation Pakistani-American and also works with issues involving the balancing of two cultures - whether that's individually, within relationships, or within the family unit.

Minahil holds a Masters degree in Social Work from Columbia University and is a second year candidate in the Family and Couples Treatment program at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. Previously she completed a Bachelors of Science in Media, Culture and Communication and English Literature from NYU.

Sabrina La Rosa, LMSW

Psychotherapist

Sabrina believes in the art of healing  and  aims to create a space where you feel safe, supported, and empowered to explore and understand whatever is standing in the way of your well-being.  Asking for help can be difficult and allowing yourself to be vulnerable can be even more challenging. Sabrina’s approach is warm and client-centered. She is here to listen to your story and to understand experiences in the way you live them. Sabrina views recovery and healing as a continuum. Collaboratively, you will explore all facets of your unique healing journey while discovering your most authentic self. She works to help you  identify your strengths and develop new coping strategies that encourage you to live your most fulfilling life. 

With a background in the arts and Reiki, Sabrina applies a variety of therapeutic modalities and integrates them with a holistic approach tailored to each client. Her experience includes working with individuals across the lifespan struggling with moderate to severe comorbid mental illness, trauma, substance abuse, sexual identity and orientation, body-image, relationship issues, and day-to-day challenges and life transitions. Sabrina holds a Masters in Social Work with a clinical focus from the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College.

Katy Boland, LMSW

Psychotherapist

Katy’s guiding therapeutic belief is that each person is unconditionally valid and worthy of positive regard, no matter what you may be going through. She cultivates an environment where you can show up fully, exactly as you are. From that solid foundation, you can work on untangling distressing symptoms, entrenched patterns, or negative beliefs that may no longer be serving you.

Katy pulls from various therapeutic approaches, particularly psychodynamic, attachment-based, and trauma-informed. She believes past experiences and early relationships shape how we operate in our current environment, however, the work will always focus on how you can use those insights to move forward. She also works from a lens that evaluates how oppressive societal forces may be contributing to your difficulties, all while affirming your unique strengths and experiences. 

Katy holds an MSW from Silberman School of Social Work at CUNY Hunter, and a BA in Sociology from SUNY Geneseo.

Dan Tarplin, LCSW

Clinical Director

Dan is a psychodynamically and relationally trained psychotherapist with more than 10 years of clinical experience.  In his role as a Clinical Supervisor, Dan provides a collaborative and enriching leaning environment in which developing therapists can freely present clinical issues and case material. In the supervision session, Dan brings his clinical experience, knowledge of theory, and empathic listening skills to support supervisees in gaining clinical skills, developing a layered understanding of psychodynamic processes, and to explore and process their countertransference as it relates to, and impacts, their work. 

Dan is a graduate of the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College.  He continued his training at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP) in Manhattan, where he graduated from the two-year certificate program in Adult Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. Dan began his professional practice as a staff therapist at the Blanton-Peale Counseling Center. After more than three years at Blanton-Peale, Dan began a private practice in Manhattan, where he now works with individuals and couples suffering from mood and anxiety disorders, work and career issues, relationship struggles, substance abuse and dependence, and issues of sexual identity. 

Susan Gair, LCSW

Clinical Supervisor

Susan Gair, LCSW, supervises psychotherapists in group and individually in the four year analytic program and in the two year psychotherapy program at the The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (“ICP”). She also facilitates a group In the PCGS program of ICP, which she helped develop and which serves the LGBTQ+ community. 

In her private practice she works with individuals, couples and groups. She works in a relational and collaborative style. She encourages the psychotherapist to focus on  self-reflection in their patients as well as themselves. In so doing, she is attempting work to focus on patterns of behavior and thought, tone and body language, which all impact their relationships.

In addition to her extensive work, she has written two articles that attend to these issues:

"The False Self, Shame, and the Challenge of Self Cohesion," Chapter in Lesbians and Psychoanalysis.  Ed.Suzanne Iasenza and Judith Glassgold, 1995

"It Takes a Community," Chapter in Lesbianism Feminism and Psychoanalysis. The Second Wave. Published simultaneously in the Journal of Lesbian Studies. Vol. 8,number 1/2 2004. Harrington Park Press.