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Stephen C. Josephson, Ph.D.
David Gottesfeld, Psy.D.
Arthur Greenberg, MSW
Susan Winter
Ilyse Lesser
Jennifer Safian
Stephen C. Josephson, Ph.D., Stephen Josephson holds Diplomates in both Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Behavioral Psychology, and is an Associate Professor at both Cornell University Medical Center-New York Hospital and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
He was the Coordinator of the Sleep Disorders Laboratory at Rutgers Medical School, Senior Consultant to the Beth Israel Hospital Stroke Prevention Clinic, Senior Supervisor at Cornell Medical Center Inpatient Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders Unit, and Director of the Hypertension program at the International Center for the Disabled.
He is an AASECT certified sex therapist whose research has been featured in book chapters and a number of journals (e.g. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, American Journal of Psychiatry, and Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases.)
His recent projects have included Optimism Training Seminars conducted in a number of New York City private schools such as Brearley and Trinity.
He currently directs Behavioral Medicine Associates, a private group practice based in NYC and Chappaqua. He lectures widely to groups of parents, children and mental heath professionals as well as appearing extensively on television.
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David Gottesfeld, Psy.D., David Gottesfeld was the psychologist at the Windward School, a private school for bright learning-disabled students in White Plains, New York from 1992-2002. He is also chief psychologist for Pediatric Neurological Associates, also located in White Plains and has a private practice in Manhattan. He works primarily with children and adolescents with developmental disabilities, making differential diagnoses and performing individual psychotherapy and family therapy. He has also lectured extensively on differential diagnosis, neuropsychological
assessment, Attention Deficit Disorder, Learning Disabilities and anxiety amongst children, adolescents and young adults.
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Arthur Greenberg, MSW, is a clinical social worker who specializes in Chemical Dependency, Eating Disorders, Co-Morbidity, and Pathological Gambling.
Mr. Greenberg has published articles in the above areas, lectured extensively
on topics from Wall Street to Professional Sports, as well as made several local and national media appearances.
He designed and coordinated the adult and adolescent dual diagnosis units at one of Manhattan's most prestigious private psychiatric hospitals and developed one of the first comprehensive outpatient treatment programs upon which today's Intensive Outpatient Programs are modeled.
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Susan Winter is a trained cognitive behavioral therapist. She currently has two Masters degrees in psychology and is in the process of completing her Ph.D. in clinical health psychology at The Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University.
She has been trained under the auspices of Edna Foa and Michael Kozak and is on the staff as a behavioral therapist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. She specializes in the areas of social anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder, as well as treating other anxiety and depressive disorders.
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Ilyse Lesser, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker with extensive training in cognitive behavioral psychotherapy with individuals, families and couples. She specializes in the treatment of chronic illness and bereavement.
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Jennifer Safian is a Family and Divorce Mediator. Through a non confrontational process, she helps parties resolve their divorces and disputes and avoid the excessive stress and costs of lengthy litigations.
She trained at the Center for Family and Divorce Mediation in New York, the Center for Mediation in Law and the Westchester Mediation Center of Cluster.
She is a Member of the Board of the Family and Divorce Mediation Council of Greater New -York and an Advanced Practitioner Mediator of the Association for Conflict Resolution. She is also a Certified Court Mediator and handles cases referred to her by judges.
She has extensive experience with divorce and post-divorce conflicts, as well as other family disputes including budgeting, division of family responsibilities and eldercare.
Jennifer is fluent in Spanish and French and can conduct mediations in both languages as well as in English.
Jennifer Safian can be reached at (212) 472 8626 or by email: jpsafian@aol.com. For additional information, please visit www.safianmediation.com.
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