Meet Our Therapists
Alexandra Marotta, LAC
Hiding kept you safe once. You don’t have to hide anymore.
Maybe you’ve spent your whole life feeling like you have to choose between being loved and being fully yourself. Maybe questions about your gender, your sexuality, or who you really are underneath everyone else’s expectations have followed you for years, quietly, in rooms where you didn’t feel safe enough to ask them out loud. Maybe you’ve been rejected, or you’ve been bracing for rejection so long that you don’t know the difference anymore. Maybe you’re tired of shrinking parts of yourself just to be easier for other people to hold.
I specialize in trauma and identity development, particularly for LGBTQIA+ clients and those navigating multiple marginalized identities at once, where gender, sexuality, race, religion, or ability status intersect and shape how safe the world has felt. I use Internal Family Systems (IFS) and EMDR to help you understand the different parts of yourself, especially the ones that learned to hide, perform, or people-please in order to stay safe, and help those parts finally soften. This isn’t about becoming someone new. It’s about becoming safe enough to be who you already are.
You deserve a life built around your actual self, not the version you learned to perform.
I hold a Master’s in Mental Health Counseling from William Paterson University (2024) and I am EMDR trained.
Danielle Laino LAC
Healing isn’t something you think your way into. It’s something you feel your way through.
Maybe your mind won’t stop checking. Replaying. Doubting the thing you already know is true, just to be sure, again, and then again. Maybe you’ve been in a relationship that left you confused about your own reality, where leaving felt impossible even after you knew you needed to, because some part of you still felt tied to it in a way that didn’t make sense. Maybe your body reacts to things that happened years ago as if they’re happening right now, and you’re exhausted from being on guard for a threat that isn’t even in the room anymore.
I specialize in CPTSD, OCD, and relational trauma, including the aftermath of toxic or abusive relationships where manipulation, gaslighting, or trauma bonding made it nearly impossible to trust your own mind. I use EMDR to help process trauma that’s stored in the body, not just remembered in the mind, so it stops hijacking your present. For OCD and intrusive thoughts, we work on your actual relationship with uncertainty and control, not just the thoughts themselves, so you’re not spending your life negotiating with your own brain.
This work is slow in the best way. It’s not about forcing yourself to feel differently. It’s about finally feeling safe enough to.
I hold an Ed.M. and M.A. in Psychological Counseling: Mental Health Counseling from Teachers College, Columbia University (2023) and I am EMDR trained.
Victoria Ozerskaya, LPC
You’ve done the bloodwork. Seen the specialists. Tried the elimination diets, the supplements, the second opinion, and then the third. And you’re still in pain. Still exhausted. Still living with symptoms nobody can fully explain. You’ve been told everything looks normal, and somewhere inside you already know that’s not the whole story, because your body doesn’t feel normal at all.
I work with chronic pain, autoimmune conditions, and symptoms medicine can’t explain, through a mind body lens, drawing on Dr. John Sarno’s work on how repressed emotion can turn into real physical pain. I use psychodynamic and relational approaches to help you find what’s actually underneath the pain. The stress. The trauma. The things you pushed down because there wasn’t time or space to feel them. Your body kept score anyway, and now it’s asking to be heard.
This isn’t about learning to manage your symptoms for the rest of your life. It’s about finally understanding what your body has been trying to tell you, and giving it somewhere to go.
I also work with couples, because chronic pain doesn’t just live in one person. It changes how you show up with the people closest to you too.
There is a reason your body hurts, and there’s a way through it.
Together, we’ll look at the patterns, old and current, that shape how your body holds pain and how you connect with the people around you, until understanding becomes something you actually feel, not just something you know in your head.
I hold a Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from William Paterson University (2018) and practice through a psychodynamic and relational lens.
Amanda Wasserman, LCSW, PMH-C
Maybe you’ve been trying to conceive longer than anyone told you it might take, and you’re tired of people asking when you’re “finally” having a baby. Maybe you’re pregnant and everyone keeps saying you must be so excited, and you don’t know how to explain that excited isn’t really what you feel most days. Maybe your birth didn’t go the way you pictured it, and you still think about it more than you let on. Maybe you’re carrying a loss that people stopped checking in on after the first few weeks. Or maybe you already have your baby now, and you’re supposed to be fine. Except some days you don’t recognize yourself. The thoughts you’d never say out loud. The rage that comes out of nowhere. The sense that you’ve misplaced the person you used to be.
I specialize in exactly this. Infertility. Pregnancy. Birth trauma. Loss. Postpartum depression, anxiety, rage. I use EMDR with clients who are still carrying a birth or a loss in their body, even after their mind has tried to move on, so it stops showing up uninvited in the middle of an ordinary Tuesday. I also work with the part almost nobody prepares you for: that becoming a parent changes who you are, not just your schedule, and that deserves more than “you’ll adjust.”
A lot of the women I work with are also Highly Sensitive Persons, meaning the world already asks more of your nervous system than most people’s, and pregnancy or postpartum doesn’t give that any slack. If anything, it asks for more. That’s not something I try to manage out of you. It’s part of how I understand what you actually need.
This is a sacred, sensitive chapter of life.
You shouldn’t have to move through it alone.
I hold a Master’s in Social Work from NYU (2018), I am EMDR trained (2022) and completed my Perinatal Mental Health (PMH-C) certification through Postpartum Support International in 2021.
Bianca Singer-Barber LPC
Maybe you’ve spent years figuring out how to seem normal in rooms that weren’t built for how your brain works. Maybe you can read a room before anyone speaks, get overwhelmed by noise or light nobody else seems to notice, or hit a wall of exhaustion after a day that looked completely ordinary from the outside. Maybe people have called you too sensitive, too intense, too much, and you’ve quietly wondered if maybe you’re not broken, just different. If you’re navigating ADHD, autism, or another neurodivergent experience alongside anxiety, trauma, or relationships that feel harder than they should be, you don’t need to keep forcing yourself into a shape that was never yours to begin with.
I work with neurodivergent adults and highly sensitive people, using EMDR and Internal Family Systems (IFS) to treat trauma in a nervous system that takes in the world differently than most. Together we build strategies that actually fit how you function, not ones borrowed from a neurotypical playbook. That means reducing anxiety without treating who you are as the problem, healing trauma without asking you to mask it better, and setting boundaries without the guilt that usually follows them.
Unmasking and finding your way back to yourself is possible.
I hold a Master’s in Clinical Counseling from NYU, I am EMDR trained (2022) and I’m continuing to deepen my training in neurodivergent affirming care.
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” — Carl Rogers
Andrea Nyerges LPC ACS
Maybe you’re the one everyone relies on, the high achiever, the entrepreneur, the person holding it all together, and somewhere underneath the competence there’s a quiet exhaustion nobody sees. Maybe you’ve always felt things more intensely than the people around you, more attuned, more perceptive, and instead of being met as a gift, that sensitivity got treated like something to manage or apologize for. Maybe you’ve done years of talk therapy, you understand yourself completely on paper, and you’re still stuck in your body in the same old patterns.
I work with high-functioning people, entrepreneurs and driven professionals who put relentless pressure on themselves, and with sensitive, gifted individuals learning to actually live inside their gifts instead of just carrying them. Using EMDR, IFS, and somatic work, we get out of your head and back into your body, where real change actually happens, not just more insight. I weave in spirituality and imagery where it’s useful, because healing often asks us to connect with something deeper than insight alone. The goal isn’t just symptom relief. It’s a felt sense of being grounded in yourself, maybe for the first time in a long time.
The more you trust yourself, the less your sensitivity
overwhelms you and the more it becomes your wisdom.
I hold a Master’s in Clinical Counseling from Fairleigh Dickinson University (2009) and I am EMDR trained (2022). I also have a strong passion towards supervising clinicians on the path towards full licensure and hold an ACS.
