Williamsburg Therapy Group
Your 40’s could be the best years of your life.
In New York:
Allegra Nevins, Psy.D. | Addiction Psychologist
- New York Licensed Psychologist
- Starting Fall 2022
- Clinical Interest: Addictions (substances & behavioral), anger, shame, trauma, forensic concerns.
- Specialized Patient Populations: Adults, Veterans, Police Officers.
Leanne Scharr, Psy.D. | Child Psychologist
- New York Licensed Psychologist
- Starting Fall 2022
- Clinical Interest: Anxiety disorders, OCD, and behavioral disorders.
- Specialized Patient Populations: Youth of all ages, with a particular preference for patients in early adolescence.
Makeda Jones, MD | Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist
- New York Licensed Psychiatrist for over 15 years
- Starting Fall 2022
- Clinical Interest: Extensive experience with a wide range of mental health issues, including depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, panic disorder, OCD, ADHD, PTSD, and various disorders specific to patients below 18 years old.
- Specialized Patient Populations: Children, adolescent, and adult patients all genders, cultural backgrounds, and sexualities.
Eran Barzilai, Ph.D. | Brooklyn Postdoctoral Fellow
- Starting Fall 2022
- Clinical Interest: Suicidal thoughts and behavior (STB).
- Specialized Patient Populations: Young adults, anxiety, and trauma.
Phoebe Shepherd, Psy.D. | Licensed Psychologist
- Starting Fall 2022
- Clinical Interest: Long- and short-term treatment of complex trauma, PTSD, depression, anxiety, grief and loss, and substance use disorders, as well as interpersonal and relational difficulties and life transitions.
- Specialized Patient Populations: Adults, couples, adolescents and children.
Dylan Horcher, PsyD | Brooklyn Postdoctoral Fellow
- Starting Fall 2022
- Clinical Interest:Mood disorders, gender, and sexuality, men's issues, relationships.
- Specialized Patient Populations: Young Adults.
Madeline McKeon, PhD | Brooklyn Postdoctoral Fellow
- Starting Fall 2022
- Clinical Interest: Perinatal psychology, emotional dysregulation, life transitions, relationships, identity.
- Specialized Patient Populations: Women and couples, particularly those struggling with the transition to parenthood.
Julie Slotnick | Brooklyn Postdoctoral Fellow
- Starting Fall 2022
- Clinical Interest: Freudian and Relational psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
- Specialized Patient Populations: Children and adolescents, adults, and couples. Also a special theoretical interest in gender and sexual identity.
Ida Taghavi, PhD | Brooklyn Postdoctoral Fellow
- Starting Fall 2022
- Clinical Interest: Trauma, mood, and anxiety-related mental health conditions; Mindfulness-based and mind-body interventions, integrated with psychodynamic and third-wave cognitive behavioral psychotherapy.
- Specialized Patient Populations: Adults, adolescents, and children; Individuals, groups, couples, and families.
Taralyn Teo, PsyD | Brooklyn Postdoctoral Fellow
- Starting Fall 2022
- Clinical Interest: Narcissistic personality disorder, trauma/stress, gender and sexuality,
autism spectrum disorder.
- Specialized Patient Populations: Adults, adolescents, and young children.
Gregory Weil, PhD | Brooklyn Postdoctoral Fellow
- Starting Fall 2022
- Clinical Interest: Relational psychotherapy, the curative role of the therapeutic alliance, facilitating brave patient-therapist discussions of the therapeutic process, countertransference as a clinical tool, the role of culture and cultural difference in treatment.
- Specialized Patient Populations: People who struggle with low self-esteem, relationship/family difficulties, life transition issues, depression, anxiety, and/or addictions, young adults, LGBTQA+ folks.
In Austin:
Vanessa Rumie, PsyD | Austin Postdoctoral Fellow
- Starting Fall 2022
- Clinical Interest: The treatment of trauma, multi-cultural counseling and identifying-affirming care, DBT.
- Specialized Patient Populations: Emerging adults, trauma, SPMI/Personality Disorders, BIPOC and LGBTQ+.
