8 Available Online NYC Therapists
You're feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or stuck—and the thought of adding "find a therapist" to your already-full plate feels exhausting. What if you could connect with an expert clinician from the comfort of your own space?
At New York City Psychotherapy Collective, our online therapists bring the same depth, warmth, and results-focused care to virtual sessions that you'd experience in person. Whether you’re dealing with anxiety, life changes, or relationship issues, we’re here to help.
Meet your NYC virtual therapists
Greta Weiss, LMSW
Greta helps sensitive young adults stop apologizing for feeling deeply and start using their emotions as superpowers.
Offers teletherapy ✓
Credentials: Licensed Master Social Worker
Clientele: Young adults, groups
Specialties: Highly sensitive people, anxiety, breakups, family dynamics, career stress, emotional regulation
Johanna Bellorin, LMSW
Johanna is a bilingual therapist who deeply understands the immigrant experience and helps young adults navigate identity, relationships, and major life transitions.
Offers teletherapy ✓
Credentials: Licensed Master Social Worker
Clientele: Young adults, couples, groups
Specialties: Life transitions, immigration/cultural stress, relationship patterns, grief, breakups, identity exploration
Lily Ostler, LCSW
Lily is a queer, sex-positive therapist making space for every kind of relationship, body, and identity without judgment.
Offers teletherapy ✓
Credentials: Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Sex Therapist
Clientele: Teens, young adults, adults, couples, polycules
Specialties: Sex therapy, intimacy, LGBTQ+ affirmative care, relationships, career uncertainty, kink/BDSM-affirming
Laina Mason, LCSW
Laina is a seasoned trauma specialist with 15+ years of experience helping people heal from difficult events and reclaim their sense of self.
Offers teletherapy ✓
Credentials: Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Clinical Supervisor
Clientele: Adults
Specialties: Trauma, anxiety, depression, major life transitions, perinatal mental health, high-pressure performance
Remi Reich, LMSW
Remi guides college students and recent grads through the overwhelming transition to adulthood with practical tools and compassionate support.
Offers teletherapy ✓
Credentials: Licensed Master Social Worker
Clientele: College-aged women and recent graduates
Specialties: Life transitions, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, identity exploration, career uncertainty
Maggie McCarthy
Julia LaPlaza, LMHC-D
Meet Julia
Julia is a bilingual therapist who helps exhausted overachievers stop performing for everyone else and start living for themselves.
Offers teletherapy ✓
Credentials: Licensed Mental Health Counselor with Diagnostic Privilege
Clientele: College students, young adults
Specialties: Anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, career pressures, navigating adulthood, family dynamics
Recommended for overthinking & negative self-talk
Key logistics:
Teaches coping skills & emotional regulation ✓
Clientele: Adults
Location: New York City, NY
Virtual therapy?: Yes
Allie combines CBT and person-centered therapy to help adults overcome negative self-talk, career stress, and relationship anxiety. Her collaborative approach focuses on building practical coping skills for managing overwhelming thoughts and emotions while improving self-awareness, communication, and confidence in both personal and professional settings.
Lily Ostler
Recommended for relationship issues
| Good fit for: | Not a fit for: |
|---|---|
| Couples & polycules | Young children |
| Exploring sexuality & identity | Teens |
| LGBTQIA+ | In-person sessions |
Key logistics:
Teaches coping skills & emotional regulation ✓
Clientele: Adults, couples, & polycules
Location: New York City, NY
Virtual therapy?: Yes
As a Certified Sex Therapist, Lily creates judgment-free spaces for individuals and people in all relationship structures navigating relationship milestones, sexuality, and life transitions. She blends different approaches like DBT, attachment-based therapy, and mindfulness practices to help clients both develop emotional regulation skills and explore deeper issues.
FAQs about therapy
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Therapy may be helpful if you're feeling overwhelmed by emotions, using unhealthy coping mechanisms (like doomscrolling or drinking too much), or if stress is affecting your relationships, work, or daily functioning. Many of our clients also experience anxiety or depression, have trouble sleeping, struggle in their relationships, feel overwhelmed with life changes, or feel stuck in negative patterns. There’s no wrong time to seek support—if you’re considering therapy at all, we recommend reaching out.
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Early sessions will focus on understanding your concerns and goals and building rapport with your therapist. From here, you'll explore patterns, triggers, and underlying causes of emotional difficulties. Your therapist will teach practical coping skills and emotional regulation techniques you can use between sessions while also diving into deeper patterns that underlie unhealthy coping mechanisms.
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You'll learn evidence-based techniques like deep breathing exercises, mindfulness practices, grounding techniques for anxiety, cognitive restructuring to challenge negative thoughts, and distress tolerance skills from DBT. Other tools may include progressive muscle relaxation, journaling techniques, communication strategies, boundary-setting skills, and personalized self-soothing methods tailored to your specific triggers and emotional patterns.
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Therapy helps you understand your emotional patterns, identify triggers, and develop healthy responses to intense feelings. Through techniques like CBT and DBT, you'll learn to pause between stimulus and response, challenge distorted thinking, and use practical tools to manage overwhelming emotions. This leads to better decision-making, improved relationships, and increased confidence in handling life's challenges.
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Our practice is ideal if you value cultural competence, evidence-based treatment, and therapists who understand diverse backgrounds and identities. We offer online, in-network therapy to make getting help as accessible as possible, and we prioritize therapist matching since we know that the therapeutic relationship is a key factor in successful therapy. If this resonates with you, we may be a good match.
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Just fill out this brief online form to request your free intro call. During this call, we’ll talk about what you hope to get out of therapy, answer any questions you have, and match you with a therapist who fits your needs. If you decide to move forward, we’ll set you up with your first full appointment.
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