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OUR PRACTICE
Psychotherapy can be like listening to music. It can be calming, clarifying, or soothing. It can evoke strong emotions, illicit a response, or be motivating or exciting. It can spark memories or be transportive to a different time in your life. A song will have unique and personal meaning for you—and like psychotherapy, can open your eyes and mind, illuminating parts of you in familiar or surprising ways.
Psychotherapy is a process that utilizes curiosity, personal experience, and language to gain greater understanding about yourself. Gaining insight, learning to think about how you are, and why you do what you do, and how this affects relationships, your sense of yourself, and the world in which you live, can be transformative.
You may be seeking therapy for an acute crisis or ongoing distress, or you may come to therapy with a general goal of increasing self-awareness to improve your overall well being. We look forward to working with you in these and other scenarios in order to create real and enduring change in your life.
Our work together will focus on creating space for a full spectrum of emotional experiences such that you can be more fully engaged with and enlivened by your relationships and the world around you.
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ABOUT US
Shelly Steinwurtzel, Psy.D.
Dr. Shelly Steinwurtzel is a New York state licensed clinical psychologist who has been working with children, adolescents, and adults since 2004 in their pursuit of lasting positive change.
After receiving her B.A. in Psychology and Sociology from Brandeis University, she worked as a Research Coordinator at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. While clinical research was of interest, Shelly knew she wanted to pursue a career helping children, adolescents, and adults through more individualized, clinical interventions founded on strong theoretical and evidence-based underpinnings.
Shelly earned her Masters of Education and Doctorate in Psychology focusing on School and Clinical Psychology at Pace University in lower Manhattan. She has worked in elementary, and middle school settings as well as multiple NYC hospital systems with people of diverse socio-economic, racial, and cultural backgrounds. In addition to clinical and academic work, Shelly supervised and taught undergraduate and graduate students during her Fellowship year as the Assistant Director of the McShane Center for Psychological Services at Pace University.
Currently, Shelly is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medical Psychology at Columbia University Medical Center working in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and consulting with the Perinatal and Neonatal Comfort/Palliative Care Program. She is instrumental in helping parents and family members (siblings, grandparents…) as they navigate the joys and traumas of having a baby born early, or with medical complications, and sometimes, life-limiting conditions. Shelly also works extensively with staff through one-on-one and group support and training to help them manage their own complicated feelings in the context of secondary trauma associated with their jobs. Furthermore, she is involved in multi-disciplinary quality improvement and intervention research related to the mental health of families and staff. She is often a guest lecturer in graduate programs in Manhattan and provides workshops at national conferences discussing psychological perspectives relevant to perinatal and neonatal issues.
Dr. Steinwurtzel is a member of the New York State Psychological Association, Postpartum Support International, National Perinatal Association, and the American Psychological Association including the following APA Divisions: Clinical Psychology, Association of Psychologists in Academic Health Centers, Psychoanalysis, Pediatric Psychology (and subdivision of NICU Psychologists), and Psychoanalysis. She is also on the Board of Directors of the National Eating Disorders Association and actively engaged with the March of Dimes New York City Chapter and Planned Parenthood Hudson-Peconic.
Meredith Darcy, LCSW
Meredith Darcy, LCSW-R, is a licensed psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She was awarded her master’s degree in social work from Columbia University after earning her undergraduate degree from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She completed her psychoanalytic training at The William Alanson White Institute in New York City.
Prior to creating Psychotherapy-on Hudson, her private practice in NYC has focused on working with children, adolescents, and families, as well as working with people struggling with eating disorders. Currently, her practice is more generalized, focusing on issues of self-identity and relationships. Her interests also include women’s issues and parenthood. She is currently writing and presenting nationally about the idealization and isolation of motherhood and the diffusion of responsibility.
She is faculty and supervisor at the Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program at The William Alanson White Institute in NYC. She is a board member-at-large of Division 39, Section III, Women, Gender and Psychoanalysis, and an associate editor for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, an international quarterly journal.