NYC DSA Medics know that it can be difficult to find mental health resources that are affordable and/or take insurance.
So we are reaching out to those in our networks and to organizations around the city to compile a list of providers and support groups that take insurance, offer a sliding scale, or are free. We are also researching, as best we can, practices and practitioners that are sensitive to the needs of people of color, sex workers, and queer and trans folx.
This will be an evolving document and we welcome recommendations! If you have had a negative experience with any of the groups or individuals we list, please let us know. We cannot thoroughly vet every person on this list, but will do our best. So we depend on your eyes, ears, and knowledge.
Updated last: March 2019
To view providers that have submitted responses to our questionnaire please visit this link to the google sheet!
Organizations That Take Insurance and Offer Sliding Scales
Individuals and Groups
So we are reaching out to those in our networks and to organizations around the city to compile a list of providers and support groups that take insurance, offer a sliding scale, or are free. We are also researching, as best we can, practices and practitioners that are sensitive to the needs of people of color, sex workers, and queer and trans folx.
This will be an evolving document and we welcome recommendations! If you have had a negative experience with any of the groups or individuals we list, please let us know. We cannot thoroughly vet every person on this list, but will do our best. So we depend on your eyes, ears, and knowledge.
Updated last: March 2019
To view providers that have submitted responses to our questionnaire please visit this link to the google sheet!
Organizations That Take Insurance and Offer Sliding Scales
- Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy
- Low fee and sliding scale
- Trauma therapy and a dedicated trauma division
- Specialized LGBT health center
- Eating Disorder center
- Family Therapy
- Child and Adolescent Therapy
- National Institute for the Psychotherapies
- Low fee therapy on a sliding scale if not covered by insurance
- Specialized trauma division, provides services including EMDR
- Insurance is accepted: GHI, Aetna, HIP, Emblem, NYS Empire Plan, MVP
- The White Institute
- Sliding scale
- Accepts Insurance, though not Medicaid
- Queer-friendly
- Provides one-on-one and group therapy
- Has a clinical division for Eating Disorders, Compulsions & Addictions
- Has a clinical division that provides Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy For Artists
- Callen Lorde
- Primary care services
- Trans health services
- GYN services that are queer and trans sensitive
- Mental Health Counseling
- Insurance navigation and case management/care coordination
- Dental services
- The Brooklyn Center for Psychotherapy and New Directions
- Mental Health Treatment and Substance Abuse Treatment
- Insurance accepted: Medicaid, Medicaid/Medicare, Aetna, Alicare, Americhoice, Amerigroup, Beacon, CenterCare, Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Fidelis, GHI, Healthfirst, HealthPlus, HIP, MetroPlus, Neighborhood Health Provider, New York Presbyterian Community Health Plan, Union Labor Life (Local 813), Value Options, Wellcare, 1199
- Low cost, sliding scale, between $50-60 for out of network patients
- The New School Psychotherapy Research Program
- Low cost - about $20 per session
- Affiliated with the Clinical Psychology Research Program
- One on one sessions offered by Ph.D candidates in Clinical Psychotherapy
- The Dean Hope Center at Columbia Teachers College
- Low cost therapy and some free services, see full list of services provided on their website
- Individual Adult Psychotherapy, $40
- DBT group $150 per semester, $300 per year
- Blanton-Peale Institute and Counseling Center
- Accepts most insurance
- Offers wide array of services from psychotherapy, psychiatry, group therapy, couples and family therapy
- Sliding scale based on income
- Providers speak a variety of languages
- Refuge Recovery - Buddhism-based program for those with addiction. Affiliated with Dharma Punx
- AA/NA/Al-Anon - 12 step abstinence based addiction support groups, or for those close to addicts. Not for everyone, but many comrades have been helped by it.
Individuals and Groups
- Meredith Hobart, MSN, NP, PMHNP-, BC
- Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
- Also Clinical Professor at Yale School of Nursing
- Sliding Scale
- Accepts Aetna and UnitedHealthCare
- Specializes in Medication Management
- She has had a solo practice for some time, and has now expanded to include at least one other woman named Christina! We are learning more about Christina and will include her info ASAP.
- Offers free phone consultation
- Lovely scheduling staff!
- Dr. Veronica Brodsky, PsyD
- Individual and group therapy.
- Group therapy for Women in Park Slope, as well as adolescent girls
- Uses CBT techniques and trained in EMDR.
- Accepts Insurances:1199SEIU, Aetna, BlueCross and BlueShield, Cigna, GHI, HIP | Health Plan of New York, ValueOptions
- She is the clinical director of Interactive Discovery, a group practice based in Park Slope. Insurance coverage may be different for each practitioner, but they are highly recommended and worth looking into!
- Allison Clark, PMHNP
- Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
- Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans, living with HIV/AIDS, and Latinx client focus
- Sliding scale
- Insurance accepted: Aetna, Cigna, Optum, Oscar, Oxford, UnitedHealthcare
- Part of the SoHoMD practice, which means a majority of her patients will be seen via telemedicine. Please be aware of this.
- HealHaus
- Community-centered Health and Wellness Organization offers a variety of services.
- There are 4 therapists on staff that offer individual therapy, and some offer family therapy, and couples therapy.
- Rates are not disclosed on the website, and each provider sets their own rate. We are hoping to learn more about their rates, but we know they take into account the needs, financial status, and oppression that their clients face.
- Melissa Ifill, LCSW
- Women focused practice
- Individual Therapy
- Therese Kempf, LCSW
- Individual and Couples Therapy
- Emphasis on the needs and experiences of people of color
- Matt Johnson, LCSW
- Individual therapy
- Specializes in clients experiencing acute stress, interpersonal difficulties, and mood and anxiety issues, but open to all needs
- Giorgio Chatelain, LCSW-R
- Family Therapy, Couples Therapy, Individual Therapy
- Alliance Psychological Services - William "Billy" Somerville, Ph.D.
- Individual practice, but Billy hopes to expand and turn it into a worker co-op
- His practice is actively anti-racist, feminist, and queer affirming
- DBT, ACT used
- Individual and group therapy
- Takes some insurance (Empire BlueCross/Blue Shield, FidelisCare) but also offers sliding scale as possible
- However, note his standard rate is over $100
Please send recommendation and feedback to the NYC DSA Medics email: nycdsamedics@gmail.com
IF YOU ARE A PROVIDER AND WOULD LIKE TO BE INCLUDED PLEASE FILL OUT THIS GOOGLE FORM: tinyurl.com/NYCMentalHealth
IF YOU ARE A PROVIDER AND WOULD LIKE TO BE INCLUDED PLEASE FILL OUT THIS GOOGLE FORM: tinyurl.com/NYCMentalHealth
