Therapists in New York

Dr. Matthew Mandelbaum
Dr. Matthew Mandelbaum
Sometimes men need an empathic, strong male therapist to gain customized, practical tools to build a good life. I help highly-sensitive, highly-intelligent people, including professionals in business, healthcare, the arts, education, emerging adults, and university students. They might have achieved success in some domain and now feel stuck, as past treatment modalities may have been ineffective. Many of these kind, caring, and strong individuals have survived significant trauma; I work to help them regain and improve agency, autonomy, competence, and relatedness through dialectical behavior therapy, teaching and learning, and social entrepreneurship, so they can live full lives with resilience, joy, and peace.

Louis Luba
Louis Luba
Grow through life with support and guidance. I’m Louis, a compassionate therapist dedicated to helping you navigate life’s challenges, build healthy relationships, and deepen your self-understanding. Using a trauma-informed, integrative approach, we’ll work together at your pace to foster clarity, confidence, and lasting change in a safe, welcoming space.

Lauren Palumbo
Lauren Palumbo
For men who are used to being in control, anxiety can feel like something to push past rather than address. But ignoring it doesn’t make it go away. It often builds up over time, impacting your focus, relationships, and overall well-being. I help high-achieving men break out of stress and overthinking, work with emotions in a way that feels productive, and regain a sense of confidence and control.

Adam Kaufman
Adam Kaufman
I HELP MILLENNIAL AND GEN X PROFESSIONALS CONSCIOUSLY GET WHAT THEY WANT (IN LIFE AND RELATIONSHIPS). Life is overwhelming. Between work, relationships, and technology calling for your attention at every moment, it’s extremely difficult to remain calm and grounded. We can lose our sense of purpose and passion.
Unlike other therapists who merely sit and listen, I take an active and engaged approach. You may find yourself in a guided meditation or a role-play exercise. There may be optional homework assignments. We’ll tune into exactly what you need. I’m here to support you to find your unique, confident voice.

The Gender & Sexuality Therapy Center
The Gender & Sexuality Therapy Center
For anyone, beginning therapy can be filled with a range of feelings, from fear to excitement to uncertainty. As therapists, we hope to guide, support, empower and be with you during this process of growth, exploration, and self actualization. We want to work with you to realize a life you find fulfilling on your own terms.
The Gender & Sexuality Therapy Center is a New York City based group of psychotherapists providing a wide range of services, including psychotherapy, supervision, workshops, and consultation focusing on gender, sexuality, sex and relationships.
We believe that taking the first step and beginning therapy is nothing short of courageous, is self-caring, and deeply rewarding, and we’re so glad you’re here.

Christopher Lashomb
Christopher Lashomb
My practice is deeply empathetic and intuitive, utilizes unique life experience and is rooted in the psychodynamic and attachment theory modalities. I also apply trauma-informed care, CBT, and other evidence-based practices, which allows clients to see real and actual positive changes in their lives. For me, process and progress go hand in hand.

Ms. Jillian Kaufman
Ms. Jillian Kaufman
Jillian Kaufman is a clinical social worker with over a decade of experience working with adults and adolescents through a holistic, humanistic, and somatic lens. Her areas of focus include anxiety, men’s mental health, helping professionals, PTSD, self-image, stress, trauma, and healing survivors of sexual violence. As a relatable clinical social worker, advocate, and human being, Jillian believes that clients heal most effectively when treated as a whole person and not as their diagnosis. Her work is driven by a socially-just, intersectional, and trauma-informed perspective.

Robert Zorella
Robert Zorella
I am drawn to helping people who have dealt with trauma and feel persistent isolation and sadness in their daily lives. By looking at things together a different way, we can navigate a different path. Let’s explore together, like astronauts! By gaining perspective, you can find more opportunities for strength and agency in your daily life.
My goal is to help you make own space to think about things you didn’t know were possible, a safe space for exploration and support you on this path. Making the first step can be intimidating, but we can also go to new places. Contact me to setup a free consultation call to figure out how we can move forward together.

Dr. Simay Gokbayrak
Dr. Simay Gokbayrak
I provide science-informed therapy for men. I am committed to helping you gain clarity about what is a valued life to you and manage the things that are getting in the way of that life you want to live and the person you want to be.

William Main
William Main
I work on helping young men reclaim their stories and navigate their emotions through the works of Creative arts therapy and talk therapy. I specialize in helping young men with anxiety, depressive, trauma, and anger management. I also have work with those recently influenced by the Manosphere and political trauma.
Creative arts therapy is a humanist tool where we listen to the client and work to find a groove and project that best suits the clients needs and meet them where they are at. We will work together to help find your own voice and break stigma to help find the man you want to be and find your path.

Dr. Eliezer Mayer
Dr. Eliezer Mayer
Openly gay, kink-friendly clinical psychologist located in Brooklyn. Non-judgmental, warm, sincere, genuine with over 35 years of experience.

Dennaé Harshaw
Dennaé Harshaw
I am a collaborative psychotherapist who enjoys integrating CBT, IFS, mindfulness treatments, trauma-informed practices, somatic treatments, and psychodynamic psychotherapy in my work to offer the best care possible for my clients. I believe sexual health, understanding, and connection are vital. I know the importance of mind/body integration. I am a practitioner who truly believes that everyone heals in different ways and everyone deserves access to that healing.

Cynthia Shaw
Cynthia Shaw
I work with men who are capable, responsible, and successful, yet feel lonely, disconnected, or quietly dissatisfied with their lives. Many describe going through the motions, holding things together for others, or feeling unsure why success, whether financial, familial, or romantic, hasn’t brought a deeper sense of fulfillment.
My approach is existential, relational and reflective, humorous at times, and focused on understanding how you’ve learned to manage closeness, responsibility, and uncertainty, and what that has required of you over time. Therapy is a space to think honestly, feel more connected, and explore who you want to be.

Nicole Barman
Nicole Barman
Seeking therapy is not an easy step, but you are taking the first step to make meaningful change. Life can be stressful, painful, and frustrating. I am here to help relieve some of that frustration by creating a supportive space for you to be your true self. My approach to therapy is to help you understand your thoughts and behavior through a new lens, unraveling the root of your difficulties. I am eclectic in my work and have adapted a very holistic approach. I am relational in my work as I see people as social beings, with a lot of issues stemming from interpersonal struggles. Through our work together you will gain insight, learn how to deal in a more adaptive way to your struggles and become more in touch with your thoughts and feelings

Matthew Frey
Matthew Frey
I use an eclectic approach to therapy, tailored to the goals and preferences of the client. My treatment style is integrative and strength-based and can incorporate tenets of CBT, motivational interviewing, crisis management, psychodynamic therapy, or trauma-informed counseling, depending on the client’s unique situation.
I enjoy nothing more than bringing out the best in others, seeing them grow, and helping them attain peace and happiness that has eluded them.
Contact
Call and request an initial appointment by phone or email. Once you get to your appointment, explain your symptoms and what’s going on in your life.
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Therapists listed in the HeadsUpGuys Directory are required to hold relevant professional training (Master’s level or equivalent), experience working with men’s mental health, and active membership or licensure with a recognized therapy body in their region.
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