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We’re pleased to welcome Dr. Yana Brayman, board-certified psychiatrist, to NY Mental Health Center. Dr. Brayman brings extensive experience across inpatient, outpatient, community mental health, and telepsychiatry settings. She has held clinical and leadership roles in hospital systems, community health centers, and large behavioral health organizations, where she has provided thoughtful, patient-centered psychiatric care to […]

Welcome Dr. Anthony Rinaldi to NY Mental Health Center We’re excited to welcome Dr. Anthony Rinaldi as the newest psychologist to join NY Mental Health Center. Dr. Rinaldi is a licensed clinical psychologist dedicated to helping adults navigate emotional challenges, life transitions, and the psychological impact of health-related concerns. With extensive experience across hospital, behavioral

Spiritual wellness is often misunderstood as something tied only to religion, but it is actually much broader and more inclusive. Spiritual fitness is about cultivating meaning, grounding, inner peace, and alignment with your deepest values. It is the part of emotional well-being that helps you feel anchored and connected to yourself and the world around

While searching LinkedIn for outstanding psychologists to join NYMHC, I ran into something unexpected: an overwhelming number of different doctoral-level psychology degrees. I’m used to filtering for clinical or counseling psychologists—the degrees tied directly to providing therapy and psychiatric collaboration—but LinkedIn surfaced everything from industrial-organizational psychology to cognitive science to educational psychology. It made me

Many people expect the “winter blues” to show up sometime after the holidays, once the days feel shorter and colder. But over the past several years, clinicians have noticed a shift: seasonal depression, also known as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), is beginning earlier for many individuals, sometimes as early as late September or early October.

🧠 The 10 Best TV Shows Featuring Therapists — Ranked by How Much They’d Make You Want to Go to Therapy Therapists on TV range from deeply insightful to please-someone-revoke-their-license. Here’s a ranking of the best shows that put therapy (or therapists) in the spotlight — judged for realism, heart, and entertainment value. 1. The

There’s something deceptively simple about a blank page. It asks for honesty, but it also asks for time, something most parents don’t have enough of. Katherine Ibarra’s From My Heart to Yours: A Parent’s Memory Journal for Their Children makes that process feel not only possible but deeply meaningful. As a therapist, Ibarra understands how

When Strangers to Ourselves was released in 2022, it quickly drew acclaim as one of the most important books of the year. It was named one of The New York Times’ Top Ten Books of 2022, a finalist for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography, and landed on best-of lists from The

For many people, traditional treatments like psychotherapy and medication provide meaningful relief from depression, anxiety, PTSD, and other mental health conditions. But what happens when you’ve tried multiple medications and therapeutic approaches and still don’t feel better? You’re not alone — and you’re not out of options. At NY Mental Health Center, we work closely

“Attachment styles” is one of those phrases I’ve been hearing nonstop, in professional conversations with colleagues, in casual chats with friends, and scrolling through social media feeds. The concept has gone mainstream in the last few years, and much of that visibility can be traced back to the success and staying power of Attached. First