Carroll E. Arkema, M.Div., LMFT, LP
Individual Psychotherapy is a process of getting to know yourself and your inner world, so you can live more fully in the outer world of work, play, and relationships. In Couple or Family Therapy, I help create a safe environment in which you gradually stop criticizing each other, learn to listen and to talk about feelings, begin to understand each other, and learn new and loving ways of relating. Member: Register of Marriage-Friendly Therapists
Therapy explores: 1)WHO YOU ARE NOW AND WHY? Life history, successes, disappointments, relationships; 2)WHO YOU WANT TO BE? 3)WHAT'S GETTING IN YOUR WAY? Self-doubts, self-criticism, sadness, fears? 4)HOW YOU CHANGE? In the relationship with me, you'll gain insights and confidence to become who you want to be.
Dr. Marge Blaine
LP PhD Group Process and Analysis MMI, 1998 graduated CAGS, 1997
Ms. Merle Molofsky
MFA Creative Writing NPAP 1988
New York State-licensed psychoanalyst; certified psychoanalyst, NPAP, 1988; MFA, Creative Writing, Columbia University School of the Arts. Advisory Board, Harlem Family Institute. Clinical Experience and Supervision Committee, NPAP. Faculty, NPAP and Harlem Family Institute.
Ms. Silvia Juarez-Marazzo
Silvia Juarez-Marazzo, LCSW, NCPsyA is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Nationally Accredited Adlerian Psychoanalyst. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Silvia fell in love with young children and their inner world when she began to work as an educator for young children with unique emotional needs in vulnerable and rural communities of Buenos Aires, forty years ago. Her work as an educator, psychotherapist, and social worker has been centered on the core belief that there is no such thing as a child: there is a child, his caregiver(s), and their community
Silvia was a Senior Clinician and Supervisor for Child First Yale-Bridgeport Hospital and Senior Faculty for Child First, Inc. from 2005 to 2016. Child First is an evidenced based early intervention home based program that uses a two prone approach of Child Parent Psychotherapy and reflective care coordination to address the mental health needs of children 0 to 5 and their caregivers in the State of Connecticut.
From 2016 to 2017, Silvia joined the Early Childhood Consultation Partnership at ABH, Connecticut, bringing Infant Mental Health to the Early Care and Education Settings through her role as Assistant Program Manager.
Silvia joined Chances for Children in 2018 as Clinical Director and was promoted to Co-Executive Director Clinical in 2020. With more than twenty years of solid outcome evaluations, Chances for Children has provided free clinical group and dyadic services for parents and caregivers with children 0 to 5, strengthening understanding, enhancing sensitivity, and nurturing early relationships.
Silvia has been an Adjunct Faculty for the Master Program in Social work at Southern Connecticut State University since 2001. She was invited as Core Faculty for the Early Relational Health Fellowship at UMASS Chann Medical School (Former Infant Parent Mental Health Fellowship at the University of Massachusetts) in 2016. Silvia joined the faculty at Brooklyn College’s Department of Early Childhood Education and Arts Education in 2019.
In 2010, Silvia discovered, through the deeply transformative experience at the Infant Parent Mental Health Fellowship at the University of Massachusetts, led by Dr. Ed Tronick, that creating “cuentos,” or short illustrated stories for children, can help scaffold the integration of the Latino-American immigrant mothers’ experiences about their journey into motherhood as a new avenue for both self-discovery and therapeutic action. Silvia’s illustrated children story books for immigrant families, "¡Mamá Cuéntame Como Viniste!” (2013) and "¡Mamá Cuéntame Por Qué Viniste!” (2014) were invited the 2018 and 2019 International Book Fairs in Beijing, Bologna, Frankfurt, and Guadalajara. Her third cuento,“Mommy, why daddy say that I am a superhero?”, expands on the stories of immigrant parents during the times of the COVID-19 pandemic (in print). Silvia has been a finalist illustrator at the Bologna Book Fair for three consecutive years (2021, 2022 and 2023).
Silvia was the Connecticut Infant Mental Health 2014 Jane C. Award recipient for Excellence and Exemplary Service to Young Children and their Families in the Field of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health.
David D’Alessio, M.A., N.C.Psya., L.P.
The hardest part of therapy, is beginning. It’s understandable to be unsure of what will happen in a first meeting; what to talk about, what you may want to know about me as the person that will be sitting across from you, will it be uncomfortable or awkward, will I be easy to talk to, can I make you feel welcome and at ease. These are questions most of us have when starting therapy. Thankfully, they are answerable. It is my job to make you feel at-ease, to help clarify what we need to talk about, offer ways we can proceed, and collaborate on how we can work together. I have trained in a variety of therapeutic techniques, to be able to offer services that are both tailored to what benefits you most, and what you want to accomplish. I work with individuals, as well as couples, as young as 18 years old. I’ve found it helpful to remember in our first meeting, or even our first few meetings, that we are simply having a conversation. It is a conversation with purpose; to help define and more deeply understand what you may be struggling with, give you a place to openly discuss what is important to you in your life, relationships, or career, and ultimately finding ways to help.
Due to limited options in listing of specialties, I would like to indicate that I have additional expertise in working with veterans of the military (both whom have seen combat, and whom have not), first responders, and PTSD.
My office is located at 1350 Sixth Avenue, Suite 458, on the corner of 55th Street, in Midtown Manhattan, 10019. It has elevator access behind the doorperson’s greeting desk. There is a lobby in the suite where you can sit comfortably before our appointment, in relative privacy. My hours are flexible and can accommodate later evening appointments.