About Us

Iris Hellner, PhD

Co-founder

Experience

Dr. Iris Hellner has been working with children, adolescents, adults and parents in a variety of settings for almost 30 years. She has practiced as an individual psychotherapist, family and group therapist, neuropsychological evaluator, and consultant to schools, organizations and fellow colleagues. Iris’s extensive experience working with preschoolers, school-age children, and their parents stems from her work in numerous programs, including the Barnard Toddler Center, Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services, as Director of Early Childhood Staff and Education at the Pacella Parent Child Center, as well as several clinics and hospitals. She is a recognized expert on adolescents, young adults, and their parents, having served in many roles in several hospitals, clinics and schools, such as the Upper School Psychologist of Trinity School. She is an often sought-out speaker and advisor on topics related to tweens and teens.

Education

Iris earned her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the Graduate School and University Center of CUNY after completing a clinical internship and a fellowship with a focus on group therapy, at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital. She loves to continue to grow and learn, and frequently participates in professional trainings. She is an advanced candidate at NYU’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.

Research and Teaching

Iris is currently on the faculty of both the adult program and the child and adolescent program of the Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy where she teaches licensed clinicians. She was an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at CUNY, where she taught a popular course about adolescent development and psychotherapy. She continues to supervise psychotherapy to advanced doctoral students at the City College clinical psychology doctoral program. Iris was previously involved in research on child and adolescent development, parent-child attachment relationships, and child psychotherapy at NYU and at Barnard College.

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Iris has been in private practice for about 20 years on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where she works with children, adolescents, young adults, and adults in psychotherapy and consultation, and provides clinical supervision to other psychologists. She lives with her family in Manhattan.

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Kristin Perry, PsyD

Experience

Dr. Kristin Perry has spent nearly 30 years working with children, adolescents, parents, adults and couples. Much of her clinical experience has taken place in diverse settings including nursery, elementary, middle and high schools, and at area hospitals and clinics such as Stamford, Four Winds, and St. Luke’s-Roosevelt. Some examples of the kind of work Kristin has engaged in includes conducting parent-child and family therapy, running social-skills groups with children, support groups for young teens, as well as mother/infant and mother/toddler groups, administering neuropsychological assessments, and providing psychotherapy. Kristin’s frequent consultations to public, private and special needs schools have been ongoing for many years. Kristin is particularly distinguished for her work with special needs children and their families. As such, she was cited as a resource for parents in “A Parent’s Guide to Special Education in New York City and the Metropolitan Area” by Laurie Dubos and Jane Fromer. Kristin devoted much study to the treatment of couples and has used this knowledge to create a unique hybrid model combining parent guidance and couples work.

Education

Kristin earned her doctorate in School-Clinical Child Psychology from Pace University. After completing her internship, she was awarded a fellowship in the Department of Child Psychiatry at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital and subsequently joined St. Luke’s as a staff psychologist. Ongoing education is a significant priority for Kristin. She is informed in part by interpersonal neurobiology, family systems, psychodynamic and attachment models. She is a psychobiological stress/trauma resolution (SE) practitioner and has begun teaching via the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute.

Research and Teaching

Kristin has supervised psychology graduate students in adult and child psychotherapy at Pace University and at Columbia University’s Teacher’s College and served as an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Pace University and Concordia College. Kristin participated in attachment-based seminars on infant research and adult treatment; in research on suicide prevention in adolescents, and conducted original research on the relationship between grandparents and their adolescent grandchildren’s academic achievement.

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Kristin spent numerous years as a board member of several nursery schools, and then as a board member of a district-wide schools foundation providing funding for administrator, teacher and student programming. She has been in private practice for over 20 years serving parents, children, adolescents, adults and couples and maintains a private practice in Manhattan and in Dobbs Ferry, NY.

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