Stephanie Simon, PsyD

My hope is to provide a warm, non-judgmental, safe therapeutic space that allows you to give voice to what has been difficult to face.

 

I am an LGBTQI+ affirming, inclusive therapist. I take an intersectional approach to understand how your various identities (e.g., culture, sex, gender, race, class, religion) interact and influence your relationship to power structures and ideologies.

 

I have training in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, specifically Object Relations, Emotionally Focused Therapy and Gottman Method (Level 1) for couples. I practice from an integrative framework, combining deep insight and understanding into patterns in your relationships with directive skills to affect change in your daily life. I am currently in a two-year certificate program at the Object Relations Institute.

 

I have experience working with depression, anxiety, women's health, trauma, relationship conflict, identity concerns, grief/loss, transitional life phases, and career/academic stress.

 

I have speciality interests working with birthing parents and their partners through pregnancy and postpartum as well as couples of all ages and backgrounds experiencing relationship distress.

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Training:

I earned my Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the PGSP-Stanford PsyD Consortium. My doctoral research focused on establishing a time-limited group therapy for parents of preterm infants born in the neonatal intensive care unit. During my clinical training, I worked at Palo Alto VA, Stanford Psychiatry, Partnerships for Trauma Recovery--a community mental health clinic serving asylum seekers and refugees--, San Francisco VA, Sepulveda VA, and The Motherhood Center of NY.

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I previously worked as a clinical psychologist at The Motherhood Center of NY, which serves birthing parents and their partners experiencing a perinatal mood and anxiety disorder (PMAD) and a clinical supervisor at Pace University.