• Ari Gabin: 5/10
    • Seemed friendly and kind. Not overly impressed intellectually, but didn’t seem stiff or anything like that
  • Cynthia Mclaughlin (845-260-2908):
    • Missed her call, seems sharp. Doesn’t take insurance. Will give her a call next week
  • Lisa Botticelli: 9/10
    • Referral from Shelby Waltz, call with her tomorrow. Seems very sharp, good rapport.
    • Likes to meet weekly at least at the beginning, open to biweekly
    • $295 per session, can go down to $150 for people with OON. Can go down to $125 per session.
    • All sessions via telehealth
  • Ashley Danies: 7/10
    • Rapport okay, asked weird questions (e.g. how’d I find her)
    • Psychodynamic oriented, full picture: childhood, present day, future
    • Therapy: allowing people to see options they didn’t see before and feel the autonomy do go do that
    • Have worked with a wide range of ages (18 to 55), work part time in a counseling center for medical students
    • Takes Aetna through Headway
    • Have some time during the week (Wednesdays at 10am and Thursdays at 3pm)
    • First session is intake (background) and then check in after the first 3 or 4 to see how we’re working together
  • Nicole da Silva: 9/10
    • Counseling therapist. Pay attention to people’s identities and values.
    • Integrative therapist: draw from a few schools of thoughts. Work collaboratively to understand what they want to get out of therapy. Set goals, be intentional. Tailor interventions to meet goals.
    • Understand past meaningful experiences and make connections to the present. Have good set of tools to manage the present.
    • Work relationally which means address pieces from external relationships
    • Worked in higher education admin before therapy
    • Work mostly with adults and a lot of adolescents (late adolescents to early / mid 30s)
    • Accepts Aetna EPO, through Headway
    • Going to be gone from the 13th to the 26th of August
    • Work Monday through Friday, offer appts throughout the whole day
      • Monday 9am-12pm
      • Tuesday later afternoon and evening
      • Wednesday evening at 6pm
  • Krista Scaturro: 10/10
    • Do some CBT interventions when they’re appropriate. Majority of education is psychodynamic (very New York things, last bastion of psychodynamic psychology)
    • There are a lot of reasons you have a cough. You need to get to the root cause. Not just address the symptom. The goal of treatment should be to address the root cause of the symptom.
    • 40 years of research that CBT sees much quicker remission of symptoms and also much quicker relapse
    • Sense of humor is really important as a human and a clinician
    • Virtual only at the moment, exploring IRL 1 day per week
    • Work with a lot of teachers / grad students
    • Need a week or so to figure out current schedules
    • Most flexibility Friday potentially
    • Use Alma for payment / scheduling
  • Emily Doskow: 5/10
    • Not quite the vibe I’m going for
  • Naama Hofman: 8/10
    • Integrative: use psychodynamic and acceptance / committal. Use CBT.
    • Has experience working with people my age / dealing with similar things
    • Had identical twin sister which led her to explore nature vs nurture
    • Noticed more differences between people while traveling
    • Grew up in Israel
    • Therapy is about helping you understand what is happening
    • Mental health is having flexibility and not feeling stuck