About Dr. Mayson

I am a licensed clinical psychologist (Ferkauf Graduate School, 2017) in private practice, and a psychoanalytic candidate at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Previously, I served as attending psychologist at Columbia-New York Presbyterian Hospital (9 Garden North inpatient psychiatry unit) while conducting my private practice part-time. During my doctoral training I worked in a diversity of settings, including community therapy clinics in the Bronx and Philadelphia, the Iona College Counseling Center, North Central Bronx Hospital, the Montefiore Headache Center, the Manhattan VA, Pennsylvania Hospital, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and Abramson Cancer Center.

I provide psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for adults ages 18 and up, clinical consultations, and supervision.

Education: 

Psychoanalytic Candidate: NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (2019-present)

Postdoctoral Fellowship - Pennsylvania Hospital, Penn Medicine (2018)

Fellowship - Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia (2018)

Predoctoral Internship - Pennsylvania Hospital, Penn Medicine (2017)

Ph.D. & M.A., Clinical Psychology (Health Emphasis), Yeshiva University (2017)

Post-baccalaureate Certificate, Psychology, Columbia University (2010)

Northwestern University, BA, History (2006)

Training & Experiences

I’m currently in my 6th year of training to become a certified psychoanalyst. During my doctoral training, I conducted research and published work on mind-body processes in wellbeing and illness, including mindfulness and acceptance. Throughout and since that time, I have treated individuals, couples and groups in settings of community mental health, college counseling, psychiatric inpatient and partial-hospitalization units, a tertiary care headache center, and medical/surgical hospitalization units. I trained in analytically-informed psychotherapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), “third-wave,” mindfulness- and acceptance-based therapies (e.g., ACT, MBCT, etc.), and health psychology. I applied the latter very directly in treating cancer patients and their families at Abramson Cancer Center (UPenn Health) as well as caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients, conducting pre-surgical evaluations, and being one of the first psychology fellows on the consultation-liaison service at the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania (HUP). While at Pennsylvania Hospital, I served as Assistant Clinical Director of the Behavioral Outpatient Clinic.

I believe that depth of training is invaluable to sophisticated treatment. Such immersion risks a narrowing that is not without hazard, however, if unbalanced by diversity of experience. Before becoming a clinician, I spent years: studying history and writing about the U.S. relationship to genocide abroad; acting for film, TV, and stage; learning cognitive neuroscience while researching mood and personality; and generally forging a non-traditional path. In my evolution as a clinician, this past has lent rich texture to my working understanding of “holistic” and “functional” health, distinguishing it from these terms’ often fad-driven, gimmicky use.