NYC Therapeutic Wellness Provider Profile
Sydney Neustadt
LMHC
Feeling stuck in anxiety, self-doubt, or relationship challenges can be overwhelming and isolating. You may be seeking clarity, balance, and meaningful change but feel unsure about where to begin. Together, we can work to help you better understand yourself, build stronger connections, and regain a sense of control and confidence in your life.
More About Sydney Neustadt
Let’s Connect
Call me at 314-451-1440 or use the form below to schedule a free 15 minute consultation. I’d be honored to accompany you on this journey! I currently have morning and afternoon availability Mon-Fri, both virtual and in-person.
Finances
Fees
- Individual Sessions $200
- Couple Sessions $225
- Sliding scale: apply if you may be eligible
Payment Methods
American Express, Cash, Discover, Health Savings Account, Mastercard, Venmo, Visa, Zelle
Insurance
- Aetna
- Blue Cross
- Blue Shield
- BlueCross and BlueShield
- BlueShield of Northeastern New York
- Carelon Behavioral Health
- Cigna and Evernorth
- EmblemHealth
- Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Excellus BlueCross BlueShield
- Group Health Incorporated (GHI)
- Meritain Health
- NYSHIP | NY State Empire Plan
- Optum
- Oxford
- United Medical Resources (UMR)
- UnitedHealthcare UHC | UBH
- Wellfleet
- Out of Network
I work with insurance companies as an out-of-network provider and handle all claims and reimbursements for you. This means you can relax and skip the paperwork.
Qualifications
Education and Years In Practice
- Attended Touro University, Masters
Additional Credentials
- License: State of Florida
TPMC6261. / 2025
I hold a Master’s degree from Touro University and specialize in helping teens, young adults, and couples navigate anxiety, depression, relationships, and life transitions. I provide virtual sessions and use a psychodynamic, relational approach with multicultural sensitivity.
Endorsements
Sydney is a deeply skilled therapist who is invested in providing excellent care to her clients. She provides a warm and open space for clients to feel supported. Sydney is committed to clients’ growth and helping them achieve their goals.
Treatment Approach
Cognitive-behavioral therapy stresses the role of thinking in how we feel and what we do. It is based on the belief that thoughts, rather than people or events, cause our negative feelings. The therapist assists the client in identifying, testing the reality of, and correcting dysfunctional beliefs underlying his or her thinking. The therapist then helps the client modify those thoughts and the behaviors that flow from them. CBT is a structured collaboration between therapist and client and often calls for homework assignments. CBT has been clinically proven to help clients in a relatively short amount of time with a wide range of disorders, including depression and anxiety.
Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is the treatment most closely associated with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Therapists practice DBT in both individual and group sessions. The therapy combines elements of CBT to help with regulating emotion through distress tolerance and mindfulness. The goal of Dialectical Behavior Therapy is to alleviate the intense emotional pain associated with BPD.
Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
For clients with chronic pain, hypertension, heart disease, cancer, and other health issues such as anxiety and depression, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, or MBCT, is a two-part therapy that aims to reduce stress, manage pain, and embrace the freedom to respond to situations by choice. MCBT blends two disciplines–cognitive therapy and mindfulness. Mindfulness helps by reflecting on moments and thoughts without passing judgment. MBCT clients pay close attention to their feelings to reach an objective mindset, thus viewing and combating life’s unpleasant occurrences.
Emotionally Focused
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is an approach to therapy that helps clients identify their emotions, learn to explore and experience them, to understand them and then to manage them. Emotionally Focused Therapy embraces the idea that emotions can be changed, first by arriving at or ‘living’ the maladaptive emotion (e.g. loss, fear or shame) in session, and then learning to transform it. Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples seeks to break the negative emotion cycles within relationships, emphasizing the importance of the attachment bond between couples, and how nurturing of the attachment bonds and an empathetic understanding of each others emotions can break the cycles.
Strength-Based
Strength-based therapy is a type of positive psychotherapy and counseling that focuses more on your internal strengths and resourcefulness, and less on weaknesses, failures, and shortcomings. This focus sets up a positive mindset that helps you build on you best qualities, find your strengths, improve resilience and change worldview to one that is more positive. A positive attitude, in turn, can help your expectations of yourself and others become more reasonable.
Trauma Focused
Trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) helps people who may be experiencing post-traumatic stress after a traumatic event to return to a healthy state.
I use psychodynamic therapy to help clients explore underlying patterns, Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) to improve relationships, and a relational approach to enhance how they connect with others. My work is grounded in multicultural awareness, creating a supportive and inclusive space for growth.
Location
Primary Location
136 Madison Avenue
6th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Nearby Cities
New York, NY
Nearby Counties
New York
Zips
10016
I am Licensed in NY and FL. I see clients virtual, and I am available most week days and early evenings.