About Melanie
Melanie Ventura, a Doctoral Candidate in Clinical Psychology and MSW graduate from Columbia University, offers a compassionate, client-centered approach that blends humanistic values with scientific principles. Melanie integrates psychology and neuropsychology to help clients uncover behavioral patterns, build strategies for change, and understand past histories. She empowers individuals with the knowledge, tools, and confidence to navigate life’s complexities, offering personalized care that is warm and deeply attuned to each client's unique journey
Melanie offers specialized therapy for young adults, adults, and families. She expertly addresses challenges like ADHD, trauma, anxiety, medical conditions, and major life transitions. Additionally, she is a certified family and parent therapist, Melanie provides the tools and support needed to strengthen relationships and navigate life’s complexities
Melanie's therapy blends diverse, evidence-based methods tailored to you, focusing on a humanistic, empathic approach. We'll explore your life's narrative to uncover patterns and deep-rooted influences, in a non-judgmental space. My goal is to provide understanding and tools for positive change, addressing both immediate concerns and underlying issues.
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About Lauren
Lauren Mazlin is a Licensed Social Worker who takes a client-centered, strength-based approach to therapy. She leads with empathy and creates a safe, welcoming space where clients feel heard and supported. Lauren earned her MSW with honors from Yeshiva University, where she received a certificate in Palliative Care & Gerontology and has experience with the LGBTQIA+ population. She is a certified grief specialist and specializes in life transitions, medical challenges, isolation, ADHD, anxiety, and depression.
Believing therapy works best when tailored to each person, Lauren collaborates with clients to identify unhelpful patterns, explore areas of growth, and build practical coping tools. Whether addressing past experiences, current challenges, or future goals, she brings warmth, acceptance, and genuine care to the process.
Grounded in a strong therapeutic relationship and evidence-based approaches, Lauren helps clients reflect, gain perspective, and create meaningful change. She welcomes people from all backgrounds and experiences, and her goal is to provide a supportive environment where clients feel empowered to grow.
About Jonah
Jonah Asch, LMSW, is a Licensed Master Social Worker dedicated to providing a holistic, client-centered approach to therapy. He earned his degree from the University of Denver and has extensive experience working with individuals facing a wide range of challenges. Jonah creates a safe and non-judgmental space where clients can explore their experiences, gain insight, and develop the tools needed to navigate life’s complexities with resilience and confidence.
With a deep understanding of the mind-body connection, Jonah integrates strength-based modalities and evidence-based practices tailored to each client’s unique needs. His areas of expertise include anxiety, depression, trauma, isolation, self-esteem issues, addiction, and relationship difficulties. He takes a collaborative approach, helping clients identify unhelpful patterns, build coping skills, and foster personal growth.
Jonah strongly believes that the therapeutic relationship is the foundation of effective therapy. By cultivating a trusting and supportive dynamic, he helps clients engage in meaningful self-reflection and positive change. His goal is to guide individuals toward healing and fulfillment, equipping them with the tools to lead more balanced and fulfilling lives.
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About Dana
Dana Longstreet is a licensed clinical social worker with advanced training from the Gottman Institute and over a decade of experience supporting teens (14+), young adults, couples, and adults (20-80) navigating ADHD, depression, anxiety, and life transitions. A graduate of Rutgers University’s MSW program (2012), she brings warmth, clarity, and a deeply client-centered approach to therapy, helping individuals understand themselves, build effective coping strategies, and make meaningful changes in their daily lives.
Many clients come to her feeling overwhelmed by responsibilities, disconnected from their goals, or stuck in patterns they can’t quite name. Drawing from evidence-based methods including CBT, psychodynamic therapy, and strength-based interventions, she helps clients uncover the roots of these challenges, understand how ADHD and anxiety shape their thinking and behavior, and develop practical tools to move forward with confidence.
With thirteen years in practice and a relaxed, relatable presence, Dana offers a space where clients can reflect, laugh, explore, and grow without judgment. She integrates clinical expertise with genuine empathy, supporting individuals through stress, family dynamics, academic and work pressures, and the emotional complexities of adolescence and adulthood.
If you’re struggling to manage daily demands, feeling stuck, or simply need a place to regain perspective, Dana provides thoughtful guidance and personalized strategies to help you find steadiness, resilience, and a clearer path ahead.
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About Alli
Alli Brachmann has devoted her career to empowering individuals to live healthier, fulfilling lives. She began as an advocate for survivors of gender-based violence before earning her PhD in Social Work from Rutgers University. Her research focuses on gender-based violence among college students and adults in the workforce. She currently works as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for Binghamton University and is a Licensed Social Worker in New Jersey.
Alli takes a trauma-informed approach to therapy, leading with compassion and empathy. She engages evidence-based techniques, including cognitive behavioral therapy and psychodynamic therapy. Her approach centers the therapeutic relationship and is tailored to each unique client. She builds a collaborative and trusting dynamic in order to help clients uncover behavioral patterns, gain perspective, understand emotions, and foster healthy relationships.
About Eskarlin
Eskarlin is a Licensed Social Worker (LSW) with five years of experience providing trauma-informed care to adolescents. She also has experience treating adults. She has a strong background in school-based mental health and has supported clients navigating anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma-related symptoms, and relationship stress. Her work is grounded in helping clients feel supported while also building clarity about what is maintaining distress and what can shift.
Eskarlin’s approach is collaborative, structured, and practical. She draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), behavior therapy, Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), and social skills training. Sessions often focus on identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns, strengthening emotional regulation, improving distress tolerance, and developing coping strategies that can be applied outside of session. She also supports clients in building confidence with communication, boundaries, and problem-solving skills.
With adolescents, Eskarlin often works on concerns related to academic pressure, social stress, self-esteem, family dynamics, and identity development, while helping teens build skills for managing emotions and navigating relationships more effectively. With adults, she supports work around long-standing patterns, anxiety and stress management, and creating healthier responses to triggers and daily demands. When clinically appropriate, she incorporates coordination with caregivers or school supports to help improve consistency across environments and strengthen follow-through.
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About Shilpa
Shilpa Jackman is a Licensed Social Worker (LSW) who offers a thoughtful, client-centered approach to therapy rooted in empathy and collaboration. Since receiving her MSW from Columbia University over a decade ago, she has worked to ensure high-quality behavioral health services integrating proven evidence-based practices, are widely accessible to all people who seek care. Her professional background includes experience working with survivors of gender-based violence, LGBTQI+ individuals and families, and young adults.
Shilpa understands that therapy is never one-size-fits-all and works as an active partner in the therapeutic process. Shilpa recognizes that every person is the expert of their own life story and approaches every client with curiosity and respect for their unique lived experience. She is committed to creating a supportive and nonjudgmental space where clients feel comfortable exploring the challenges, patterns, and experiences which have shaped their lives, and utilizes strength-based approaches to empower individuals to develop effective skills and coping strategies to achieve their goals and improve their well-being and quality of life.
Shilpa’s approach centers upon the therapeutic alliance, blended with a variety of evidence-based practice. She welcomes people from all backgrounds and experiences. Whether clients are processing the past, managing present stressors, or seeking greater clarity for the future, Shilpa’s goal is to provide an intentional and personalized therapeutic experience to support clients in their journey towards healing and leading fulfilling lives.
