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.