The peoples therapist
Our Team - The People's Therapy
Adriana Khoker, LCSW-R
CEO & Founder
Not accepting new clients
Adriana is a native New Yorker and familiar with the stressors that come with living in NYC. She received her undergraduate degree from Stony Brook University and her MSW from the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College. Adriana has extensive experience working with people from all walks of life including, the formerly incarcerated, undocumented, and severe mental illnesses. She also has an array of experience in different settings including, clinic work, mental health startups, and private practice. Adriana enjoys working with people who struggle with anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, divorce, relationships and life transitions. She implements a variety of interventions including her training in CBT, REBT, Complicated Grief Therapy, and EMDR.
Adriana founded The People’s Therapy with the mission of making great mental health care not only accessible but affordable. She hopes to provide an environment in which people from all walks of life feel welcomed and accepted at her practice.
Darrlyn Moorer, LCSW
Clinical Supervisor/Psychotherapist
Not accepting new clients
Darrlyn Moorer is a native New Yorker passionate about serving the needs of her community. She views the relationship between the clinician and client as a collaboration; she wants her clients to truly feel like they are a part of the therapeutic process and are in charge of their counseling experience. Darrlyn has a broad range of clinical experience in the child welfare, family homelessness and healthcare fields, and has worked with adults, children and families. She also has an extensive background of providing support to diverse groups of people including but not limited to those who identify as BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA+.
She employs a strengths-based, client centered, trauma informed approach in her practice and utilizes Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Reframing and Crisis Intervention.
Her goal as a therapist is to provide a safe environment where you can explore your primary interests, identify goals and develop a treatment plan to fit you and your aspirations.
Monica Suarez, LMSW
Psychotherapist
Monica Suarez is a psychotherapist with a passion for supporting others in the NYC community. She received her undergraduate degree from John Jay College of Criminal Justice and her MSW from NYU Silver School of Social Work. She has broad experience working with people from different walks of life such as undocumented, severely mentally ill, and history of substance use. She enjoys working with people who struggle with anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, and teenagers. Monica has an extensive history of working with children, youth, and families; particularly with adolescents and their transitioning from children to young adults.
She views her work to be a partnership between clinician and client. Monica strongly utilizes a strength-based and trauma-based approach in her practice by using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Crisis Intervention.
Her goal as a therapist is to provide a safe space for you to be your most authentic self and build skills that work for you throughout your treatment.
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Giuseppa LaCorte, LMSW
Psychotherapist
Giuseppa LaCorte is a psychotherapist who works with teens, young adults, and adults. She has a passion for helping others and would love to be a support through your most difficult stressors in life. She has extensive clinical experience in working with severe mental illness, substance use disorders, and those with co-occurring disorders.
She employs a strengths-based perspective, client centered, and shared decision-making model in all her sessions. She also utilizes motivational interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and various other modalities in order to help you realize your goals. Her goal as a therapist is to provide a warm, non-judgmental, and safe environment for all of her clients.
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Ana Ladino, LMSW
Psychotherapist
Ana is a passionate and warm bilingual (Spanish and English) Licensed Master of Social Worker.
She obtained her Master’s degree from Columbia University in 2020. She attended New York University for her Bachelor’s Degree in 2017. She has clinical experience in different settings including outpatient treatment programs, school settings and private practice. She can work with all age groups from young children to adults. She utilizes a combination of different therapy approaches including: client-centered, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Psychodynamic, Mindfulness Skills, Supportive Counseling, Trauma-Informed Care, Crisis Intervention, Family-Systems and Strengths Based approaches. She understands the importance of a multimodal approach to treatment to support clients in exploring their inner worlds and intersecting identities.
Through building a solid rapport and forming strong treatment alliances, Ana works towards helping her client’s learn healthy and adaptive coping skills, increase awareness and experience greater joy when overcoming challenges in their lives. Ana ensures each client is part of their own individualized plan to be able to meet their mental health needs.
Ana’s utmost priority is to provide a safe and non-judgmental environment in which clients can explore the therapeutic experience and feel listened to, supported and validated.
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Marberth Coulanges, LMSW
Psychotherapist
Marberth Coulanges is a psychotherapist with a passion to help others in their most difficult moments. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from St. John’s University and Master’s degree in Social Work from New York University.
Marberth enjoys working with teens and young adults. She has extensive clinical experience in working with those struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, identity issues, and life transitions. She has worked in many different settings such as child welfare, schools, hospitals, and outpatient treatment programs.
Marberth works to establish a partnership with her clients through rapport building and a client-centered approach. She utilizes modalities such as Motivational Interviewing, Crisis Intervention, Trauma-Informed Care, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
Her goal as a therapist is to create a warm and safe space where clients can feel comfortable to be themselves while learning new skills.
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Liliana Munoz. Graduate student in training
Psychotherapist
Liliana is a native New Yorker who is bilingual in Spanish and English and currently pursuing a masters degree in Science for Clinical counseling. She has chosen this career path because it is her passion: since she was young, she has always found joy and fulfillment in helping others overcome their problems. She is excited that she can now have the same impact on a broader scale as a professional, and she is eager to apply all that she has learned and continue to grow in this field. Her goal is to make clients feel welcome and to establish a solid therapeutic alliance in which they understand that she has their best interest at heart. By doing so, clients will be more open and confident in the process and be in the best position to reach their own goals.
Book now
Adriana Khoker, LCSW-R
CEO & Founder
Not accepting new clients
Adriana is a native New Yorker and familiar with the stressors that come with living in NYC. She received her undergraduate degree from Stony Brook University and her MSW from the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College. Adriana has extensive experience working with people from all walks of life including, the formerly incarcerated, undocumented, and severe mental illnesses. She also has an array of experience in different settings including, clinic work, mental health startups, and private practice. Adriana enjoys working with people who struggle with anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, divorce, relationships and life transitions. She implements a variety of interventions including her training in CBT, REBT, Complicated Grief Therapy, and EMDR. Adriana founded The People’s Therapy with the mission of making great mental health care not only accessible but affordable.
She hopes to provide an environment in which people from all walks of life feel welcomed and accepted at her practice.
Darrlyn Moorer, LCSW
Clinical Supervisor/Psychotherapist
Darrlyn Moorer is a native New Yorker passionate about serving the needs of her community. She views the relationship between the clinician and client as a collaboration; she wants her clients to truly feel like they are a part of the therapeutic process and are in charge of their counseling experience. Darrlyn has a broad range of clinical experience in the child welfare, family homelessness and healthcare fields, and has worked with adults, children and families. She also has an extensive background of providing support to diverse groups of people including but not limited to those who identify as BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA+. She employs a strengths-based, client centered, trauma informed approach in her practice and utilizes Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Reframing and Crisis Intervention.
Her goal as a therapist is to provide a safe environment where you can explore your primary interests, identify goals and develop a treatment plan to fit you and your aspirations.
Book now
Monica Suarez, LMSW
Psychotherapist
Monica Suarez is a bilingual psychotherapist with a passion for supporting others in the NYC community. She received her undergraduate degree from John Jay College of Criminal Justice and her MSW from NYU Silver School of Social Work. She has broad experience working with people from different walks of life such as undocumented, severely mentally ill, and history of substance use. She enjoys working with people who struggle with anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, and teenagers. Monica has an extensive history of working with children, youth, and families; particularly with adolescents and their transitioning from children to young adults. She views her work to be a partnership between clinician and client.
Monica strongly utilizes a strength-based and trauma-based approach in her practice by using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Crisis Intervention. Her goal as a therapist is to provide a safe space for you to be your most authentic self and build skills that work for you throughout your treatment.
Book now
Giuseppa Lacorte, LMSW
Psychotherapist
Giuseppa LaCorte is a psychotherapist who works with teens, young adults, and adults. She has a passion for helping others and would love to be a support through your most difficult stressors in life. She has extensive clinical experience in working with severe mental illness, substance use disorders, and those with co-occurring disorders. She employs a strengths-based perspective, client centered, and shared decision-making model in all her sessions. She also utilizes motivational interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and various other modalities in order to help you realize your goals.
Her goal as a therapist is to provide a warm, non-judgmental, and safe environment for all of her clients.
Book now
Ana Ladino, LMSW
Psychotherapist
Not accepting new clients
Ana is a passionate and warm bilingual (Spanish and English) Licensed Master of Social Worker. She obtained her Master’s degree from Columbia University in 2020. She attended New York University for her Bachelor’s Degree in 2017. She has clinical experience in different settings including outpatient treatment programs, school settings and private practice. She can work with all age groups from young children to adults. She utilizes a combination of different therapy approaches including: client-centered, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Psychodynamic, Mindfulness Skills, Supportive Counseling, Trauma-Informed Care, Crisis Intervention, Family-Systems and Strengths Based approaches. She understands the importance of a multimodal approach to treatment to support clients in exploring their inner worlds and intersecting identities.
Through building a solid rapport and forming strong treatment alliances, Ana works towards helping her client’s learn healthy and adaptive coping skills, increase awareness and experience greater joy when overcoming challenges in their lives. Ana ensures each client is part of their own individualized plan to be able to meet their mental health needs. Ana’s utmost priority is to provide a safe and non-judgmental environment in which clients can explore the therapeutic experience and feel listened to, supported and validated.
Marberth Coulanges, LMSW
Psychotherapist
Marberth Coulanges is a psychotherapist with a passion to help others in their most difficult moments. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from St. John’s University and Master’s degree in Social Work from New York University. Marberth enjoys working with teens and young adults. She has extensive clinical experience in working with those struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, identity issues, and life transitions.
She has worked in many different settings such as child welfare, schools, hospitals, and outpatient treatment programs. Marberth works to establish a partnership with her clients through rapport building and a client-centered approach. She utilizes modalities such as Motivational Interviewing, Crisis Intervention, Trauma-Informed Care, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Her goal as a therapist is to create a warm and safe space where clients can feel comfortable to be themselves while learning new skills.
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Michelle Pinales, LMSW
Psychotherapist
Michelle received her Bachelor’s in Spanish and Psychology with a minor in Latin and African American Studies from Western Washington University. She then went on to receive her Master’s in Social Work with a concentration in children and adolescent trauma and their families at New York University. She is a bilingual Licensed Social Worker and is currently working on obtaining her clinical license.
Michelle began her career as a school social worker where she provided both individual and group counseling, crisis intervention, facilitated family and student centered workshops on a variety of topics. She has had a huge passion for advocating for the needs of youth and their families from diverse backgrounds like herself. She has an expertise in Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Play Therapy, and Mindfulness. As a supervisor for social work students at New York University, Michelle developed skills in leadership and facilitation. Michelle is passionate about advocating and uplifting communities of color and wants to continue do so through her many platforms including here at The People’s Therapy.
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Jemila McPhee, LMSW
Psychotherapist
Jemila is a Licensed Master Social Worker who enjoys teaching skills that help her clients navigate through life's challenges. Jemila received her Master in Social Work Degree from Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College and her Undergraduate Degree from Queens College.
People may describe her as warm, empathetic, and genuine. She believes that meeting people where they are and providing a safe space are key to the healing experience. Jemila specializes in working with people who struggle with anxiety, stress, low confidence, decision making, academic problems, job & career, grief, depression, and trauma. Jemila wants her Ct’s to know that they are not alone and whatever they are going through, she is here for them. Jemila uses a variety of interventions cognitive behavior therapy, client centered therapy and motivational interviewing and a culturally responsive approach.
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Liliana Munoz, GRADUATE STUDENT IN TRAINING
Psychotherapist
Liliana is a native New Yorker who is bilingual in Spanish and English and currently pursuing a masters degree in Science for Clinical counseling. She has chosen this career path because it is her passion: since she was young, she has always found joy and fulfillment in helping others overcome their problems.
She is excited that she can now have the same impact on a broader scale as a professional, and she is eager to apply all that she has learned and continue to grow in this field. Her goal is to make clients feel welcome and to establish a solid therapeutic alliance in which they understand that she has their best interest at heart. By doing so, clients will be more open and confident in the process and be in the best position to reach their own goals.
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The People's Therapist, Author at Above the LawAbove the Law
Will Meyerhofer, JD LMSW is a Biglaw attorney turned psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. A former Sullivan & Cromwell associate, he holds degrees from Harvard, NYU School of Law and The Hunter College School of Social Work.
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I'm Not Your Damn Father
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Therapist: a brief description of the specialty
Doctors whose professional activity is aimed at providing medical care to patients who have reached physical maturity are called a therapist. In our country, it is generally accepted that the human body physically matures by about eighteen years, that is, by the time of adulthood.
Therefore, the therapist's patients are representatives of different sexes who have stepped over this age limit.
Therapists differ from most other medical specialists in that their work is dominated by a preventive focus, and among the methods of treatment, only conservative ones are used, the basis of which is pharmacological therapy. Therapists are doctors of a wide profile - they have an idea about all the pathological processes that can develop in the body of an adult, therefore they can detect and differentiate most common diseases. In addition, it is these doctors who know all the criteria for health, so they can give an objective conclusion about the state of the patient's body.
What is the job of a therapist?
The main goal of the work of general practitioners is to help the patient maintain health at its original level or restore it in case of a disorder. To do this, they carry out active preventive, sanitary-educational, advisory and therapeutic activities.
Therapists consider the patient's body as a single system of interconnected organs. Based on the slightest changes in the patient's state of health or the results of an objective examination, these doctors can suspect the presence of a pathological process, conduct a more thorough examination and establish a preliminary or final clinical diagnosis. As a rule, therapists deal with the treatment of diseases that occur in a mild form on their own, and more severe forms are treated by specialists of narrow profiles: cardiologists, gastroenterologists, endocrinologists, rheumatologists and others. If the disease is chronic, the patient is observed by a general practitioner and a narrow specialist at the same time. At the same time, the therapist ensures that the existing disease does not adversely affect the health of other organs and systems.
Patients with severe forms of somatic disorders of unclear etiology, which significantly affect the general well-being and condition of the patient, are examined in the therapeutic departments of hospitals.
It also treats patients with diseases accompanied by a high risk of complications and life-threatening conditions.
Patients with mild forms of somatic pathologies are treated on an outpatient basis, preventive work and medical examinations of the adult population are carried out.
In the event that the disease takes an acute (fulminant) course and causes a sharp deterioration in the patient's well-being, he is helped by emergency medical professionals. They carry out the necessary therapeutic measures and decide on the further tactics of treating the patient.
When should I see a therapist?
The reason for contacting a general practitioner of the polyclinic is:
- any ailment, deterioration in general well-being;
- occurrence of medical questions;
- the need to obtain a conclusion on the general state of health of the patient.
Periodic visits to a therapeutic specialist is also one of the measures necessary to maintain the health of the body at its original level, or to strengthen it.
How to become a therapist?
In Nizhny Novgorod, employees of the Nizhny Novgorod Medical Academy provide an opportunity to become a therapist. For many years they have been training students who later become qualified specialists in various fields of medicine.
Well-known specialists of Nizhny Novgorod
Significant influence on the development of therapy in Nizhny Novgorod and the Nizhny Novgorod region was provided by such outstanding specialists as:
- AP Matusova;
- O. V. Maslennikov;
- G. A. Isaevich;
- A. I. Gefter;
- K. V. Zvereva.
They have managed to create a solid platform for scientific and practical research, as well as the training of qualified specialists in the field of internal medicine, hospital and polyclinic therapy.
Traditional methods of treating colds: which ones work
There are many traditional methods for treating SARS, but not all of them are safe for health.
About which popular methods are effective and which can be harmful, Izvestia was told by the therapist of the Invitro company Ivan Romasov.
“There are really a lot of folk methods of treatment. Most of them are scientifically unfounded and have only a weak physiotherapeutic effect, which can even be harmful in the active stage of a cold. Alcohol can immediately be attributed to the category of prohibited drugs, since using it during a cold can increase intoxication and lead to bad consequences, ”the specialist warned.
At the same time, he noted that there are folk methods that have found an evidence base. These include proper sleep, plenty of drinking and rest - they help fight intoxication and restore strength. Chicken broth is also useful, which contains the necessary substances for the normal functioning of the immune system.
At the same time, popular folk remedies such as tea with lemon or ginger, vitamin C in fizzy form or in other drinks are useful only as liquids in terms of rehydration and detoxification.
It should be borne in mind that their excessive consumption is contraindicated for people with chronic stomach diseases (gastritis, stomach ulcers, and others) and urolithiasis, Romasov emphasized.
According to him, the only traditional medicine that has an effective evidence base is honey. It acts as a good cough remedy and with less evidence for a sore throat.
“A remedy that has not been studied, but logically it is effective, is inhalation over boiled potatoes or a water bath. When coughing, inhalations with saline are often used. In the case of potatoes and a water bath, the steam also turns out to be wet and indirectly, a similar effect can be achieved, ”the doctor noted.
Nasal rinsing with saline solutions has a weak evidence base, but is still included in many of the world's recommendations for reducing nasal discharge.
At the same time, Romasov warned against the use of antibiotics for acute respiratory viral infections, since viruses are the cause of the common cold.
Such drugs act only on bacteria and have no effect on viruses. In addition, antibiotics have many side effects, such as allergic reactions. Also, some drugs can lead to ototoxicity (the possibility of hearing loss), others to nephrotoxicity (toxic effects on the kidneys).
“Frequent use of antibiotics makes it possible for bacteria, both unambiguously “harmful” and “opportunistically harmful” strains within a person, to develop resistance to these drugs. This means that the drugs will no longer be able to affect these bacteria. “Normal” strains inside a person can die from prolonged uncontrolled use of antibiotics, and they will be replaced in the intestines by clostridia, bacteria that cause intractable and very dangerous diarrhea, ”the doctor warned.
On September 27, an allergist-immunologist at Invitro-Rostov-on-Don LLC, Irina Estrina, said that honey can bring not only benefits, but also harm. According to her, despite the numerous useful substances in the composition of the product, it contains fast carbohydrates, so it can be dangerous for patients with metabolic disorders, obesity, and diabetes.
