About Us
Weill Cornell Medicine psychiatrists provide outstanding behavioral healthcare at two separate sites in the New York City area. At Payne Whitney, located on Manhattan's East Side, and at the Westchester Division in White Plains, children, adolescents, and adults receive the most current therapeutic and pharmacologic care available to treat mood, anxiety, attention deficit, personality, and other disorders. At either facility, patients can receive psychiatric evaluations by a qualified mental health therapist or psychiatric doctor.
Our psychiatrists provide the full range of services that includes individual and couple therapy, family services, and treatment of eating disorders and schizophrenia. We have extensive services available in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Specialists, including mental health counselors and psychiatric doctors, offer a range of treatment and support programs for children, adolescents and adults. Contact us today to schedule an appointment with a nationally ranked psychiatrist connected to the #1 hospital in New York City.
Our Services
CRMI-Psychology
CRMI's team of experienced psychologists is committed to patients' emotional health as well as to their physical well being. Problems in reproductive health can also often lead to emotional hardships. Infertility and pregnancy loss are problems that deeply affect every aspect of a couple's life and can create feelings of anxiety and depression as well as social isolation.
To help patients cope with the psychological and interpersonal challenges which may occur during the course of medical treatment, the Center offers compassionate and confidential counseling and psychotherapy for individuals, couples and groups.
Eating Disorders
The Eating Disorders Service provides assessment and treatment for adults afflicted with Anorexia Nervosa and/or Bulimia Nervosa. Anorexia is an eating disorder in which there is a severe and prolonged inability to eat, with marked weight loss. Bulimia is an eating disorder in which a person regularly binge eats, then tries to prevent weight gain by self-induced vomiting, water pills, laxatives, fasting or extreme exercising. Both disorders can be treated using individual, group and/or family psychotherapy, and nutrition counseling. Depending on the degree of weight loss and the state of physical health when the person enters treatment, there will be greater or lesser control of the person's eating and of the total environment.
Pediatric Obsessive Compulsive Anxiety and Tic Disorders
The Weill Cornell Pediatric OCD, Anxiety and Tic Disorders Program (POCAT) is a specialty clinic led by Avital Falk, PhD that provides a team-based approach to treating children and adolescents utilizing state-of-the-art evidence-based practices. We offer treatments that can be applied along a continuum of intensity, from regular, weekly outpatient visits to sessions occurring multiple days per week in our Intensive Treatment Program that includes both individual and group therapy approaches.
Treatment modalities include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Exposure with Response Prevention (ERP), Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics (CBIT), group therapy, parent guidance, and medication evaluation and management. The structure of the program allows for flexibility in treatment planning, rapid assessment in crisis situations, prompt access to your providers, and a high level of privacy and discretion.
POCAT provides one of the only Intensive Treatment Programs for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Anxiety in the region. The intensive program consists of up to ten hours of active treatment per week, with an emphasis on group treatment. We provide short-term intensive treatment to target symptoms using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) treatment strategies. We provide evaluation, psychoeducation, group therapy, individual sessions, parent sessions, and the option for medication evaluation and management. Our program addresses OCD as well as other non-OCD anxiety disorders, such as Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Separation Anxiety Disorder, Social Phobia, Selective Mutism, and specific phobias and is appropriate for a broad range of children and teens with moderately to severely impairing symptoms, and their families. This model of intensive care can be an alternative to hospitalization or step down from hospitalization. In addition, it provides a way for families without easy access to expert treatment to receive intensive care in a time-limited manner, and then return to their home community. We provide a specific and thorough plan for aftercare for all families. For those returning to home communities outside New York City, this includes a plan for continuing to practice newly learned skills to maintain treatment gains, coordination with a treatment provider in your home community for continuity of care, and the opportunity for follow-up visits with us by phone or in person, if needed. For those in nearby communities, we provide the option of ongoing follow-up treatment.
Contact: Avital Falk, PhD, Director of POCAT at 646-962-2820
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
The Weill Cornell Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College offers a new, safe and effective option for patients suffering from major depression whose symptoms persist despite prior treatment attempts with antidepressant medications.
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is designed for adults, 18 years of age and older. TMS involves the administration of a small magnetic field over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, one of the areas implicated in depression. TMS therapy has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of depression in individuals who have not achieved satisfactory improvement despite the use of antidepressants. Using very short pulses of magnetic energy to alter the activity of nerve cells in the brain, TMS involves no radiation or electrical stimulation, and requires no anesthesia. Patients remain awake and alert during the procedure. The standard outpatient treatment typically lasts for 40 minutes, and is performed under the supervision of a psychiatrist. The number of sessions recommended is based on the individual patient's need and response to treatment. For most patients, treatment is administered daily, for four to six weeks.
Weill Cornell Medical College faculty from the Department of Psychiatry provide expert evaluation of patients and consistent monitoring throughout the course of treatment. Marc Dubin, MD PhD oversees the TMS site located in Manhattan. To make an appointment or referral to the TMS Program, or to learn additional information, please call at 212-746-5817 or e-mail to TMSinfo@med.cornell.edu
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Weill Cornell Psychiatry Specialty Center
The Weill Cornell Psychiatry Specialty Center offers expert assessment and treatment of psychiatric disorders by a multidisciplinary team of academically oriented clinicians in a discreet, comfortable outpatient setting. We offer expertise in disorders across the lifespan and an approach that is sensitive to each individual's life context.
Our services include assessment, medication management, psychotherapy, couples' counseling, family therapy, group therapy, and neuropsychological and educational testing.
Drawing on the resources of Weill Cornell Medical College and our affiliated hospital, NewYork-Presbyterian, we treat a wide range of psychiatric conditions.
Our Locations
New York, NY 10065
White Plains, NY 10605
New York, NY 10065
New York, NY 10038
New York, NY 10065
New York, NY 10065
New York, NY 10021
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"Dr. Hermann is compassionate, very competent, and a professional through and through. She recommended a less known course of treatment for a very rare condition, was incredibly knowledgeable and well-read on the literature, and I credit her willingness to listen, make a difference, and expertise to where I am today. I whole heartedly recommend her."
"Dr. Daniels really stuck with me through the years. She has been open and caring--she really lets me know what she thinks even if it's something I might not want to hear--but she is always kind and open-minded about it and about hearing my opinion, too. I have really come to trust her--her help has really changed my life."
"I can not recommend Dr. Specht enough! He helped my son so much with his generalized anxiety disorder and OCD. Up until we found Dr. Specht he had gone to several counselors that had not helped very much. Dr. Specht’s treatment plan helped my son tremendously. He has minimal symptoms now. He definitely was very instrumental in changing my son’s life. We will always be grateful to him for all he did."