We believe that therapy motivates you to reach your highest potential and improve the quality of your life. We value the importance of paying attention to organic ways of improving your mental health. Treatment is individualized to meet your unique goals so that you can create a life worth living.
Dr. Rischa C. Gottlieb, Ph.D.
Executive Director & Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Gottlieb is a NYS licensed clinical psychologist. As a helping professional she believes that each person is doing the best they can in any given moment and that therapy can help build on innate strength so that they can do more. Dr. Gottlieb approaches therapy through the lens that all people are whole and unbroken as they are. Therapy does not change people, rather it helps them to develop the skills they need to live in a way that is consistent with the life they want to live.
As a biracial queer person of Haitian and Jewish descent, Dr. Gottlieb thinks about the way our environments shape the way we relate to ourselves and move through the world around us. Dr. Gottlieb enjoys taking an expansive approach to wellness and change that makes evidence-based practices accessible to BIPOC and LGBTQ+ folks.
Dr. Gottlieb approaches treatment with connection, compassion and humor. She believes in meeting you where you are and building forward from there. She uses an integrative approach, including ACT, CBT, DBT, and trauma-focused interventions. She is committed to providing culturally humble care that considers the impact of individual and cultural identity on one's view of life.
PTSD/Trauma
Anxiety
Bipolar Spectrum Disorder
Suicidal Thoughts
LGBTQ Issues & Gender Nonconformity
Bi/multiracial Identity Development
Age: 14-Adult
Email: dr.rgottlieb@newperspectivebrooklyn.com
Phone: 515-599-7209
Pronouns: She/They
Licensed In: New York State
Dr. Cynthia M. Cabral, Ph.D.
Director of Clinical Training & Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Cabral is a NYS licensed clinical psychologist. As a psychologist Dr. Cabral sees their role as both to help you to let a gust of fresh air into the stuffy corners of your mind and stand with you as you encounter the parts of yourself that you have not met. In this way Dr. Cabral makes therapy a place where you can become the most authentic version of yourself by helping to clarify your values and discover how past traumas may shape the ways in which you currently move through the world.
As an Afro-Caribbean, non-binary psychologist, Dr. Cabral finds that they incorporate the the wisdom of Dominican “dichos,” or aphorisms they grew up with into the therapeutic landscape. They also enrich concepts of building life worth living by committing to queer joy and gender euphoria. As someone whose personal experience often brings them into “in-between” spaces, Dr. Cabral is comfortable helping others navigate what can at once be painful and also excellent and meaningful.
Dr. Cabral has extensive training and experience across community based school settings, settings focused on academic research and clinical care for queer and gender diverse clients, and partial hospitalization programs. As such they are able to support adults, adolescents and families who are struggling to manage trauma, depression, and anxiety. Dr. Cabral believes in meeting clients with compassion, humor, cultural humility and a genuine interest in their treatment goals. They use an integrative approach, including Motivational Interviewing, DBT, CBT, and trauma-focused interventions.
Depression
Anxiety
Subtle Autism
Trauma
LGBTQ Issues & Gender Nonconformity
Latiné Identity Concerns
Age: 11-Adult
Languages Spoken: Spanish, English
Email: dr.ccabral@newperspectivebrooklyn.com
Phone: 845-232-1455
Pronouns: They/Them
Licensed In: New York State
Alka Chaudhary, LMHC
Staff Therapist
Alka Chaudhary is a Mental Health Counselor licensed in the states of New York & New Jersey as well as an adjunct professor at Adelphi University. Alka views therapy as a place where people come to summon the courage to open their minds and reorganize everything accumulated in it. She believes her role is to help people understand themselves, their past experiences, and step into who they truly are.
Alka believes that the roots of our struggles begin from environments that taught us how to see ourselves, others, and the world around us. Being South Asian American, as well as the child of immigrants, Alka is able to draw from her own experiences to better explore the various intersections of her patient's identities and how those affect their lives today.
As a therapist she uses art and writing as a part of a practice in which creativity is not just a hobby, it’s a coping skill you can hone to help you understand, express, and make meaning of painful emotions. She believes that forming authentic relationships with her clients helps them elicit their own intrinsic motivation so that they can make lasting changes. Alka uses an integrative approach that draws upon her background with evidence-based treatments such as Motivational Interviewing (MI), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), & Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) through a person-centered lens.
Borderline Personality/Suicidal Thoughts
Anxiety
Chronic Trauma
Substance Use
Intersectional Identity Integration
South Asian American Identity Development
Women’s Issues
Ages: 18+
Phone: 201-702-1582
Email: achaudhary@newperspectivebrooklyn.com
Pronouns: She/Her
Licensed In: New York State & New Jersey
Kitama Cahill-Jackson, LMSW
Staff Therapist
Kitama Cahill-Jackson is a Licensed Social Worker in the state of New York and an adjunct professor at Columbia University. Kitama uses his straightforward nature and his sense of humor to connect with clients, particularly those who often feel misunderstood and struggle with remaining confident in tough situations. He sees therapy as a place where passionate, driven people come to learn how to cope with challenging emotions.
As a multi-racial black man of Japanese, African-American and Caucasian ancestry raised by artists in a rural community, Kitama thinks deeply about multifaceted identity development. As a result of both personal and professional experiences Kitama is a clinician who enjoys helping his clients develop pride and appreciation for the ways they may be different from, and linked to, the people in their lives.
Prior to becoming a therapist, Kitama was a documentary filmmaker & journalist, where he learned how to help people create their own narrative. Kitama draws on his extensive background in evidence-based treatment such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) & Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people explore and be proud of their unique personal narratives, identities and emotional lives.
In addition to his work with adults, Kitama works well with children and families. Kitama has particular expertise in working with suicidal teens, trans-racial adoptees, and adolescent boys.
Anxiety
Borderline Personality/Suicidal Thoughts
Parenting/Parent Management Training
Male/Masculine Identity Development
Bi/multiracial Identity Development
Ages: 12 - Adult
Email: kjackson@newperspectivebrooklyn.com
Phone: 929-430-5276
Pronouns: He/Him
Licensed In: New York State
Nuri Mendoza, MA Candidate
Clinical Intern Providing Therapy
Nuri Mendoza is proud to join New Perspective’s team as a Clinical-Intern and masters student at Columbia University School of Social Work. Nuri approaches session as a second chance to help someone to love and nurture themselves and so that their defenses can grow up. Their clients enjoy working with them because their warm and candid nature creates an environment where people can open up and occasionally laugh about what brings them to therapy.
Nuri is a Jack-of-All-Trades and in addition to being a therapist is a practicing tarot reader, avid roller skater and artist. They enjoy helping others to fully engage with aspects of their personality, creativity and identity that might run counter to prescriptive societal expectations. Nuri sees art as a reflection of our innate humanity and enjoy using art in session to help clients communicate intimate parts of their worldview.
Nuri’s radically open minded approach to therapy is informed by their own experiences as a therapist who is Latine, queer, and first-generation student . Nuri also had particular insights into growing up in and separating from Pentecostal and Catholic Church communities while maintaining deep respect for them. Nuri particularly enjoys working with queer BIPOC folks who want to define what a life well-lived means for themselves.
Nuri has completed training in Restorative Circle Facilitation and is completing intensive training DBT at Behavior Tech, The Training Institute founded by Marsha Linehan.
Borderline Personality Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
Anxiety
Latiné Identity Development and Exploration
1st/2nd generation American Identity/Issues
Queer/Gender Identity Exploration
Social Justice Oriented Interventions
Ages: 12-Adults
Phone Number: 347-921-5597
Email: nmendoza@newperspectivebrooklyn.com
Pronouns: They/She
New Perspective Takes Halloween Seriously
This year we decided to test out the Care Bear Stare’s effect on therapy…. We are happy to report that it seemed to bring lots of smiles.