Daniel is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Psychotherapist in the state of New York. His work specializes in men's and male adolescent's mental and relational health including relationships, addiction, out of control sexual behavior, anger management, depression, sexuality, and trauma recovery. Understanding the special needs of men in the modern world, he tailors his approach to therapy to address this under-served and overwhelmed population.

His work is integrative; meeting his clients as they are, he facilitates curiosity and accountability in accepting where they are and where they want to go. He lectures at universities throughout New York City and has had the privilege working in mental health clinics, hospice, universities, gang intervention programs, the Department of Human Services, and residential supports servicing those with developmental disabilities. He obtained his Master’s Degree in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from Naropa University, specializing in Gestalt and Mindfulness based therapeutic approaches. He has further trauma and attachment training from the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, grounding his therapeutic approach in working with body based memories in resolving traumatic experiences as well as the neurological implications of attachment and stress.

He is an avid meditation practitioner and teacher and contributes his contemplative practice to his capacity as therapist.

daniel@embodiedmindnyc.com

Gwen is an Integrative Psychotherapist, bringing to Embodied Mind almost a decade of experience working with children, adolescents, adults, and families. Gwen’s primary clinical work has been in New York City schools across each borough, representing community based organizations, as well as in public health services in the Bronx. Her work and studies have afforded her the privilege to apply her clinical practices abroad, integrating art therapy within the hospital setting in Buenos Aires, as well as learning innovative therapeutic treatments and understandings at NYU London’s community of Autism awareness. Gwen utilizes multidisciplinary therapeutic modalities, founded in her undergraduate work at UCLA, and refined during her studies at NYU, where she earned a Master’s in Counseling for Mental Health and Wellness. She has further training in Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy from the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, and strongly believes in the mind-body integration, honoring the whole person through a holistic perspective.

Gwen also has a professional background in music, as a singer, and is passionate about weaving this creativity into the way she approaches clients, collaboratively curating a customized approach that fits accordingly.

gwen@embodiedmindnyc.com

Laura is a licensed mental health counselor and a national certified counselor. She specializes in working with anxiety, depression, self stigma, employment and academic development and difficulties, religious identity, life transitions and grief and bereavement in female adolescents and adults.

She takes a client centered, strengths based approach to working with clients. She places great importance on learning about the client’s identity, culture, and environment to create an individualized approach for each client. She believes the therapeutic process and relationship can be inherently healing and empowering for her clients.

She received her Masters in Counseling for Mental Health and Wellness from NYU. Her previous work included working at an outpatient mental health clinic and an employee assistance program. She also works as an adjunct professor at NYU.

laura@embodiedmindnyc.com

Ndoumbé believes that therapy is an emotional journey to self-discovery and self-growth. By creating a balance of warmth, safety, nurturance, and challenge, her clients are able to get the most out of their therapeutic experience. Her work mainly focuses on relational trauma, complex family relationships, attachment disorders, self-doubt, low-self-esteem, depression, fear, and anxiety.

Her approach to therapy is an integration of person-centered therapy, psychodynamic theory, trauma informed IFS, and attachment theory. She also incorporates a lot of somatic and mindfulness practices as a way of fostering greater self-awareness in her clients.

From her experience working with adults, adolescents, children, couples, and families, Ndoumbé believes that the combination of these different approaches allow for a holistic understanding of who the client is, how they understand themselves and others, and how they navigate through life in an empathetic and nonjudgmental way.

She earned her Bachelor's degree in Psychology and Sociology at Queens College, and received her Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling and Wellness at NYU Steinhardt.

ndoumbe@embodiedmindnyc.com

Tamreh received a Bachelors in Psychology from UMass Amherst and has worked closely with children and families in residential and home settings. Her path has also taken her across the globe where she explored the human experience and its many facets. Along the way she managed and taught at Yoga & Wellness spaces both in the States and abroad. Given her passion for health and human connection, (as well as organization and details!), working with Embodied Mind has been a delight and honor. Outside of work she loves to dance, tend the garden, and study herbalism.

admin@embodiedmindnyc.com

Trevor joined Embodied Mind in 2018. Hailing from San Diego, he majored in psychology at UCLA, and then worked as the office manager at a neuropsychology evaluation center prior to obtaining a masters degree in psychology at Columbia University. Trevor is now a clinical psychology PhD student at The New School and a psychotherapist at Coney Island Hospital. He has extensive experience in the psychiatric inpatient setting, co-facilitating a DBT skills group at Lenox Hill Hospital and conducting interviews with patients at Mount Sinai Beth Israel with histories of psychosis and substance dependence. He is a member of The New School’s Safran Psychotherapy Research Lab and the Center for Attachment Research. Trevor's primary research interests include nonverbal synchrony and the therapeutic alliance. In his spare time, he enjoys DJing, playing guitar, and singing in a rock band.

trevor@embodiedmindnyc.com

Kevin joined Embodied Mind in 2020 as a clinical intern. Kevin recently completed a dual degree in Counseling for Mental Health and Wellness and LGBTQ Health, Education and Social Services at NYU. He strongly believes in the dynamic being, understanding that each person comes from a unique combination of cultural, familial and diverse experiences, tailoring his integrative approach accordingly.

Coming from Chicago, Kevin received a BA in Applied Psychology at NYU with a focus on Social and Cultural Analysis and Music. During this time, Kevin worked as an Editorial Assistant for a private therapy practice as well as a book reviewer for the International Journal of Psychotherapy and Somatic Psychotherapy Today, and had the opportunity to learn multicultural and psychopathological treatment modalities while abroad in Sydney, Australia.

He draws from psychodynamic, attachment-based, social justice, creative art and trauma informed psychotherapy. Kevin’s work specializes in depression, anxiety, grief, relationships as well as LGBQAIP and trans clients. Meeting clients where they are, he aims to hold space for the clients’ full lived experience and collaborate with them to reach honest emotional expression and experience a more authentic and fulfilling life.

In his spare time, Kevin enjoys singing with the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus, walking next to dog parks and throughout the city’s botanic gardens, and organizing social activism.

kevin@embodiedmindnyc.com

Amarfi is a student enrolled in NYU’s Counseling for Mental Health and Wellness master’s program with certification in LGBTQ Health, Education, and Social Services. Amarfi received a BA in Criminal Justice with a focus on psychology and philosophy, as well as a Counseling Certificate.

Amarfi hopes to serve clients whose identities have been oppressed and not only affirm their unique experiences but celebrate them. As part of working in a client-centered approach, she believes in the use of Narrative Therapy as an empowerment approach. She draws from an object-relation framework, social justice, and strength-based approach. Using a holistic approach, her goal is to help one find the authenticity, autonomy, and agency one loses as a result of the daily challenges.

Crucial to understanding the individual’s unique experience, she pays close attention to intersectionality identifying how each identity impacts the individual’s self-concept in relation to the world.

In her spare time, she connects with her inner self through dancing and especially enjoys contemporary and lyrical.

amarfi@embodiedmindnyc.com

Hillary joined Embodied Mind as a Clinical Intern. She is currently pursuing her Masters in Counseling for Mental Health and Wellness at NYU and completing additional training at the Nalanda Institute in Contemplative Psychotherapy, integrating mindfulness and Buddhist psychology into her approach. She also works as an intake coordinator for an outpatient eating disorder clinic in NYC.

Hillary comes to psychotherapy with experience as a yoga and meditation instructor and as a staff member to an acupuncture center that specializes in reproductive health. With this background, Hillary brings a holistic perspective to her work and considers the wellbeing of the whole-person--physically, spiritually, emotionally, and relationally.

Hillary believes transformation occurs in the moments we are seen and held in their truest, fullest expression, and she is passionate about helping others find these moments. She draws from an integrative, relational, and social-justice informed approach that embraces the uniqueness of each person and considers the systemic and cultural influences on diverse, lived experiences. She meets her clients with reverence for their willingness to engage the therapeutic process and strives to build a relationship from a foundation of curiosity, collaboration, and compassion.

Outside the therapeutic space, Hillary enjoys traveling to new places, going to concerts, making jewelry, and throwing pottery.

hillary@embodiedmindnyc.com

William is currently a Master’s student in New York University’s Counseling and Mental Health Wellness program. William received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Studies from Indiana University Bloomington. As a Civil War survivor from Liberia, William is keenly sensitive to human suffering and highly passionate with a sincere commitment to ameliorate problems in the lives of individuals so as to help them to maximize their full potential. He has exceptional work experience in the mental health field that gives credence to the axiom that one of the noblest things one can do with their life is to be of service to others. William has worked with children, adolescents, and adults in mental health hospitals, various social services agencies, community outreach, a mental health crisis hotline, and training the NYPD on mental health and suicide prevention.

With his clinical experience and helping people from all backgrounds, William hopes to use his life as a beacon of light to help those that experienced and endured traumatic experiences by finding meaning in their lives, self-determination, purpose, independence, and autonomy. William implements bottom-up therapeutic modalities to help us explore how our traumatic experiences can manifest in our bodies. William utilizes several modalities to uplift individuals, mainly client-centered and existentialist therapy, while also implementing AEDP, IPT, and cognitive and psychodynamic therapy and taking an integrative approach to fit our unique individual needs.

In his spare time, William enjoys spending quality time with his growing family, playing sports, traveling, and reading.

william@embodiedmindnyc.com

Aasritha is currently a Clinical Intern at Embodied Mind. She is pursuing her Master's in Counseling for Mental Health and Wellness at NYU. She received a BA in Cognitive Science and Biology with a minor in History from the University of Virginia. She comes to Embodied Mind with a background in substance use disorder research and has experience working with emotionally at-risk young adults.

Having grown up in a collectivist culture that has historically stigmatized mental health, Aasritha views psychotherapy as an opportunity to embrace collectivist cultures and use it as a tool to destigmatize mental health and empower clients’ personal relationships with their mental health. She aims to show up authentically, and work with her clients to explore what their environments and relationships mean to them. She hopes to use an integrative approach, while also bringing in relevant mindfulness, cultural relational, and dialectical behavioral techniques. On a broader scale, she reinforces a social justice, multicultural, and trauma-informed foundation with every client, and aspires to build a therapeutic relationship based on compassion, collaboration, and mutual learning.

Outside of the therapeutic space, Aasritha enjoys spending her time singing, performing as a professional Indian classical dancer, and reading any book she can get her hands on.

aasritha@embodiedmindnyc.com

Kobi is a Clinical Intern at Embodied Mind, and is currently pursuing his Masters in Counseling for Mental Health and Wellness at NYU. Prior to joining Embodied Mind, he worked at the Civilian Complaint Review Board, investigating allegations of police misconduct in New York City, and in an operations role at a tech start-up, among other roles. Kobi received a BA in History, Literature, and Philosophy, and a certificate in Jewish & Israel studies from Wesleyan University. As a liberal arts student and career changer, he understands that the path to growth and self actualization often takes us in unexpected directions.

Kobi approaches therapy from a place of curiosity, and is interested in how language and the stories we tell shape our internal and external experiences. He believes that therapy must be non-judgmental and affirming while simultaneously challenging and flexible in its methods.

Kobi also knows that different types of therapy work for different types of people, and uses an integrative approach that draws on narrative therapy, relational, CBT, social justice, and trauma-informed methods to best serve clients.

Outside of therapy, Kobi is a freelance fiction writer and enjoys playing board and card games, reading, live music, and performance.

kobi@embodiedmindnyc.com