Caro Maltz (they/them) is a Clinical Trainee at MPG and a graduate student in the Mental Health Counseling program at SUNY New Paltz. Their approach to counseling is grounded in relational-cultural theory. In practice, this means Caro is drawn to how dis/connection shapes our experiences. From this perspective, they believe connection, therefore healing, can be achieved in a counseling relationship that prioritizes empathy, curiosity, and co-creation.

Before pursuing clinical training, Caro worked as a researcher at Yale University Department of Psychiatry, specializing in substance use disorder treatment with stigmatized and underserved populations. They have also worked with people navigating periods of significant transition, including early recovery and identity exploration. In addition, Caro has experience working with and supporting people diagnosed with serious and persistent mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar disorder, and C-PTSD. Caro works as a graduate research assistant at the Institute for Disaster Mental Health, where their focus is exploring the mental health needs of first responders and frontline workers.

Caro’s clinical interests include relationships and cycles of connection, identity exploration, grief and trauma, and developing greater attunement to emotional and somatic experience. They draw from DBT and ACT while primarily attending to relational and social contexts in which people cope and heal. Caro is also interested in advocacy and education around reducing pathologizing bias in counseling with people who practice consensual non-monogamy (CNM). They are open to working with people from late adolescence through middle adulthood.

Across their personal and professional lives, Caro is drawn to questions of power, identity, and how to hold seemingly conflicting experiences simultaneously. They’re interested in exploring both/and: both autonomy and connection, both acceptance and change.

Megan (she/her) is a compassionate and trauma-informed psychotherapist who cares for the mind, body and soul of her clients. She primarily utilizes a psychodynamic framework to support clients with recognizing patterns and making positive shifts towards their therapeutic goals. She also integrates a therapeutic approach that helps clients befriend or understand the parts of their mind that influence their actions, beliefs and behaviors. Megan creates a comfortable and casual atmosphere, supporting clients to show up as their whole self.

Megan has a background in both school counseling and mental health counseling helping adolescents and young adults manage anxiety and depression, as well as build social skills and resilience through life adjustments. For the majority of her counseling career, she provided psychotherapy for undergraduate and graduate college students at the New School in New York City, supporting them through academic pressure, creativity burnout, relationship difficulties, anxiety, depression, PTSD, grief, and perfectionism. She has experience working with clients of various intersectional identities, cultural backgrounds, gender expressions/identities, sexualities, and immigration statuses. Her approach to therapy is rooted in anti-oppression and cultural sensitivity striving to help her clients feel safe, heard and respected in their session.

Megan believes that each client is the expert in their own world and experiences. Her work as a psychotherapist acts as a compass but the client is ultimately the captain of their own life. Outside of the therapy room, Megan enjoys drinking tea, dancing, making art, cooking and appreciating nature. Her creative pursuits and experience working with art & design students has helped her support clients with their own creativity.

Kaitlyn Flanagan (she/her) is a LMSW who holds a Master of Social Work from Fordham University. Her clinical approach is warm, authentic, and grounding, offering both practical day-to-day support in shifting patterns alongside an ongoing existential curiosity about each client’s journey through the cosmos. As a collaborator in the healing process, Kaitlyn seeks to honor client autonomy and create a space for growth and exploration of the self that is free from judgment, meeting clients’ lived experience with curiosity, humility, and an intersectional lens. 

Kaitlyn has experience providing mental health support in private, public, and therapeutic school settings (K-12) in addition to working in community mental health as part of her clinical training. She integrates the following approaches and modalities: strengths-based, trauma-informed; psychodynamic, relational, and attachment-based; CBT, DBT, Motivational Interviewing; Internal Family Systems; and EMDR. She supports clients navigating life transitions, burnout, grief, LGBTQIA+ identity exploration, meaning making through creative expression, and digital wellness/smartphone addiction. She is energized by the way that therapy draws from both the arts and the sciences, blending evidence-based approaches with her sense of humor and conviction that each person has within them the strength and tools to heal. Outside of her work in the mental health field, Kaitlyn can be found reading nerdy books, fumbling with her flip phone, and playing bass in her rock band.

Katharine Sidelnik, LMSW (she/they) is a holistic psychotherapist working with teens, adults, and couples navigating a wide range of issues including anxiety, trauma, and depression. Katharine draws from trauma-informed and somatic modalities, the humanistic approach, nondual wisdom traditions, and anti-oppressive frameworks that empower individuals to (re)connect with themselves, community, and the world around us. With choice.

Amanda (she/her) is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) who holds a Master's degree in Clinical Social Work from Smith College. Her approach is warm, relational, and collaborative, integrating psychodynamic, attachment-based, trauma-informed, and humanistic perspectives. Amanda believes people are more than their symptoms or diagnoses and views therapy as a space to safely explore thoughts, emotions, and patterns while building on the strengths clients already possess.

Serena Berne (she/her) is a LMSW and believes that the foundation of successful treatment is trust. To facilitate that she provides a safe, calm, nonjudgmental, open environment to partner and build that trust with clients. Therapy creates a space for people to be seen, heard and be their authentic selves. It can be a way of showing up for yourself and exploring parts that may not feel safe to express in other areas of your life.

Serena approaches therapy with curiosity, respect, empathy, humor and creativity. She welcomes people of all backgrounds and identities. Areas Serena works with include: Anxiety, Stress, Depression, Self Esteem issues, Trauma, Life and Career Transitions, Overwhelm, being Stuck, Relationships, and Menopause. She has experience working with adults, young adults, seniors, performing artists and those in other creative fields, along with working with individuals caring for loved ones with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.

Serena’s approach is psychodynamic (exploring your inner world and looking at how it impacts your daily life), strength based, relational, and trauma informed. She believes therapy is collaborative so the client and psychotherapist will work together to tailor it to the client’s specific needs for growth and change.

Serena holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Social Work from Smith College and her experience includes training and working at The Training Institute for Mental Health and the 92nd Street Y. Before becoming a therapist Serena worked in the arts and was a teacher.

Shoshana Rybeck (she/her) approaches therapy as a collaborative process that helps clients deepen self-understanding, strengthen emotional resilience, and build more meaningful relationships with themselves and others. Her work is grounded in an intersectional framework, recognizing how culture, identity, family systems, and social contexts shape each person's experiences and mental health. Her therapeutic style is warm, curious, and relational, mainly working with young adults, and adults navigating anxiety, OCD, depression, grief, trauma, life transitions, relationship challenges, and self-esteem concerns. She integrates psychodynamic, attachment-based, somatic, and trauma-informed approaches, helping clients explore both the emotional and embodied aspects of their experiences. Shoshana tailors treatment to each individual's goals and believes that lasting change emerges through increased self-awareness, intentional reflection, and compassionate engagement with difficult emotions. affirming, nonjudgmental space where clients can safely explore challenges, uncover patterns, and move toward lives that feel more authentic and aligned with their values. Shoshana earned her Master of Social Work (MSW) from CUNY Hunter’s Silberman School of Social Work. I believe therapy offers a unique opportunity to slow down, listen more deeply to ourselves, and create meaningful change. My goal is to help clients cultivate greater self-compassion, emotional flexibility, and a stronger connection to who they are and how they want to live.

Tommy Walker is a graduate student in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Antioch University, currently completing his practicum at Maverick Psychotherapy Group. He brings a relational and liberation-focused approach to his clinical work, shaped by a mix of relational, contemplative, and trauma-informed work and a deep interest in how people make meaning out of difficult experience. Before this, he spent fifteen years in senior nonprofit leadership, drawn always to the human work underneath the organizational work.

He grew up in the Deep South, queer and trans, in a place where identity was complicated and sometimes dangerous. It's left him with an understanding, and deep respect for how difficult it can be to find safe spaces. 

His clinical training includes a year-long Foundations in Contemplative Care program through the NY Zen Center for Contemplative Care, a year-long psychoanalytic and decolonial reading group exploring the inner world in the context of oppression and lived experience, and additional trainings in Emotion-Focused Therapy, shame and self-criticism, and Narrative Exposure Therapy. He is also actively studying Mentalization-Based Treatment. 

His clinical interests include LGBTQ+ mental health (particularly trans and nonbinary experiences), complex and developmental trauma, relational patterns and interpersonal difficulties, moral injury and religious trauma, grief and loss, and identity development across the lifespan. 

Jessica provides a warm, steady environment for clients to explore the internal narratives and adaptive patterns that may cause them distress. She works collaboratively with clients to build resiliency, honor their innate intuition, and develop new ways of being that are deeply aligned with their personal and relational goals. After over twenty years in the integrative health field, Jessica obtained her Master of Social Work from Fordham University. Her practice is informed by over two decades of dedicated Zen Buddhist studies, a lifelong commitment to teaching yoga and mindfulness, and her current professional training in Somatic Experiencing. Drawing on her background facilitating resilience and mindfulness programming for organizations such as National Geographic and PBS, Jessica brings a unique understanding to those navigating high-stakes professional environments, body-related distress (including athletes and dancers), and the complexities of modern parenting. In her clinical work, she is particularly interested in the intersection of psychodynamics and spirituality, exploring how intergenerational trauma and "internal parts" are held within the body. A long time New Yorker, Jessica now lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband and two children. When not working, you can find her hiking, dancing or hanging out on the sidelines of soccer fields.

Annie Lee (she/her) is a certified medical biller and auditor through the AAPC, with more than 20 years of experience in various medical specialties. She is recognized for her steady, organized style and her dedication to supporting teams with clarity, professionalism, and care. Annie values dependable systems and thoughtful communication, and she takes pride in helping create environments where clinicians and staff can excel. 

Annie lives in Northern New Jersey with her family. Outside of work, she enjoys staying active, maintaining a balanced lifestyle, and spending quality time with her children and two adorable miniature poodles. She is always eager to learn, grow, and bring positive energy to the teams she joins.

Cori (they/she/he) brings a strengths-based approach to their work, drawing on a mix of somatic practices, narrative therapy, parts work, and more to best support and empower each person. Cori specializes in supporting people with identities that include BIPOC, queer and transgender, polyamory/ethical nonmonogamy, and BDSM/kink. They work with clients to address issues of anxiety, depression, and trauma, as well as communication and relationship concerns.

Eital (she/her) works with individuals navigating depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, life transitions, identity questions, and the lingering effects of trauma. Her practice is grounded in anti-oppressive principles that acknowledge how systems of power and privilege impact mental health and wellbeing. She strives to create a therapeutic environment that feels safe, collaborative, and attuned to your unique cultural and social context.

Jamie McErlean (she/they) is a proud trans clinician at Maverick Psychotherapy Group. She holds a Masters of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from SUNY New Paltz and has experience supporting adults of all ages with particular specialty working with transgender/nonbinary, queer populations, and questioning, and neurodivergent individuals while also working extensively with trauma, interpersonal conflicts, self-acceptance, and mental illnesses ranging from depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder and more. 

Gracie Farese (she/they) works collaboratively and flexibly, trusting that each person knows their body, emotions, and experiences best. They have experience exploring topics such as depression, anxiety, attachment, life transitions, relational issues, gender, sexuality, LGBTQIA+ issues and intersections, grief/loss, and healing from trauma. Gracie’s approach integrates relational psychotherapy (attuning to patterns in past and present relationships), somatic exploration (listening to the body’s wisdom), parts work (understanding the needs of different inner parts), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (examining the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors), and trauma-informed care (recognizing the nervous system’s role in healing and resilience). 

Esther Rosheger (she/her) is an LMSW therapist who brings a calm, genuine, and empathetic presence. Prioritizing trust, safety, and unconditional positive regard, Esther engages an eclectic approach with an emphasis on DBT and CBT. She uses mindfulness as a tool to connect clients with their thoughts, emotions, and body while learning to understand the wise mind. Esther supports her clients in a person-centered and strengths-based lens and recognizes self determination is helpful in understanding what is best for your healing and overall wellness. Esther works with people who have experienced trauma, anxiety, neurodivergence, and depression.

Drawing on community-building experience and a background in the arts, Jerrica (they/them) collaborates with individuals of all ages, couples, families, and groups to navigate life’s challenges with openness and compassion. Their holistic practice centers the therapeutic relationship as a foundation for healing, emphasizing a trauma-informed and strengths-based approach.

Weishin Huang, LMSW, MDiv (he/they) is a Licensed Master Social Worker who works with adults, and whose approach is grounded in somatic awareness, mindfulness, and trauma-informed care. He brings a warm, open-hearted presence to the therapy space, honoring the psychological insight and embodied wisdom that naturally unfold in your healing journey. 

Sascha Woolfe, LMHC (she/her) cultivates a safe, kind, therapeutic atmosphere, allowing clients to express themselves freely. She aims to be a gentle guide, meeting clients where they are. She has worked with a broad range of ages as well as issues centering on trauma, grief, neurodivergence, gender identity, anxiety, and depression.

Sascha Woolfe, LMHC (she/her) cultivates a safe, kind, therapeutic atmosphere, allowing clients to express themselves freely. She aims to be a gentle guide, meeting clients where they are. She has worked with a broad range of ages as well as issues centering on trauma, grief, neurodivergence, gender identity, anxiety, and depression.

Hifza Ghurki has Bachelor’s in Economics from Pakistan and have completed medical billing and coding certification from Hunter Business School NY.