Our Therapists
Marissa Moore, LMHC, PMH-C Clinical Director
Marissa Moore LMHC is the owner of Therapy Brooklyn. She values creating a collaborative, strengths based therapeutic relationship. Social justice and intersectionality are at the core of her work. She trained at the Ackerman Institute for the Family. She is passionate about working with new parents and postpartum mothers and is certified in perinatal mental health. She is also studying to become certified in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing).
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Chaveli De Leon, LMHC, Clinical Supervisor
Chaveli De Leon does not believe in a one-size-fits-all approach, her work is tailored to clients’ specific needs. The main core of her therapeutic style is person-centered, as it is her personal belief that we must all be empowered and encouraged to be able to be the best version of ourselves. The approaches Chaveli most often uses include CBT, REBT, Family Systems, and Positive Psychology.
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Viviana Arturo, LMHC, Clinical Supervisor
Viviana Arturo proudly identifies as a therapist who believes in a therapeutic relationship that is steeped in active listening, empathy, and unconditional positive regard.
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Gisella Tavarez, LMHC, Clinical Supervisor
Gisella Tavarez uses an individualized, multi-modality approach to tailor her work with each client to their specific strengths and challenges. Drawing on her decade+ years in the field, Gisella’s passion for creating a respectful, safe space invites clients to open up at their own pace and in their own style.
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Shirley Chen Garcia, MHC-LP
Shirley Chen Garcia offers individual therapy for children (ages 8 - 12), adolescents, and adults, as well as couples and family therapy. She specializes in anxiety, depression, life transitions, grief, relational issues, systemic oppression, and childhood trauma. Her approach is person-centered, empathetic, and compassionate as she encourages engagement and curiosity in her clients.
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Oliver Ip provides an empathetic and empowering therapeutic space that is tailored to the needs and stories of each individual client. He offers individual therapy for adults and takes a trauma-informed person-centered approach with his clients. Oliver helps clients to navigate issues of mental health, grief, life transitions, and identity exploration in order to co-create a life they can love.
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Oliver Ip, MHC-LP
Cecile Johnson, MHC-LP
Cecile, strongly believes in meeting her clients where they are in order to provide an equitable therapeutic process for each client. She takes an integrative, emotion focused approach to her practice going below secondary surface feelings to identify more primary root emotions and fears that guide beliefs and behavior.
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Sahana Sriram. MHC-LP
Sahana is committed to working with adults from diverse backgrounds that are battling loneliness, depression, trauma, anxiety, and other stressors so that they are able to live, work, and love fully. In addition, Sahana specializes in working with first and second generation immigrants, international students, women of color, and victims of abuse.
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Josie Rhee, MHC-LP
As a Korean-American child of immigrants, Josie is passionate about exploring patterns of shame, guilt, intergenerational trauma, and anxiety. As a woman therapist of color, she is also aware of the dynamics of power, oppression, and marginalization. Josie offers individual therapy.
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Mrugakshi (Mru) Sanghavi, MHC-LP
Mru is passionate about catering to her clients through a social justice lens. She believes that we as humans go through a range of experiences and emotions, not all of which are comfortable. She provides space for all experiences and emotions that are empathetic and non-judgmental.
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Isidora believes that healing is fundamentally relational – she believes that our relationships, whether short-term or long, romantic or familial, are all conduits to our ever-growing transformation as human beings.
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Isidora Mae Torres, Clinical Intern
William Li, Clinical Intern
William is a bilingual psychotherapist in training, fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese. He offers individual therapy and couples therapy for adults. He specializes in anxiety, depression, relationships, LGBTQ+ issues, identity formation, and cross-cultural adjustment.
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Chandel Hunter, MHC-LP
Chandel Hunter is a dedicated and compassionate therapist with 10 years of experience in mental health. Specializing in trauma, anxiety, emotional regulation, and individual and couples therapy,
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