About Dr. Mayson

I am a licensed clinical psychologist (Ferkauf Graduate School, 2017) and psychoanalytic candidate (‘NYU Postdoc’) in private practice. 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, Iona College Counseling Center, North Central Bronx Hospital, Montefiore Headache Center, Manhattan VA, Pennsylvania Hospital, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and Abramson Cancer Center.

I provide individual treatment for adults aged 18 and above, clinical consultations and supervision, and pre-surgical psychological evaluations for bariatric surgery candidates.

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 training to become a certified psychoanalyst at “NYU Postdoc”. As a PhD candidate 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.

Depth of training is invaluable to sophisticated treatment—that is, if such immersion is balanced by the perspective that diverse experience brings. Spending years 1) studying history and writing about the U.S.’s relationship to genocides abroad, 2) acting for film, TV and stage, 3) researching mood and personality disorders, and 4) generally charting a non-traditional path has lent rich texture to my working understanding “holistic” and “functional” health, distinguishing it from these terms’ often fad-driven, gimmicky use.