Stephanie Simon, PsyD

My hope is to provide a warm, non-judgmental, safe therapeutic space that allows you to give voice to what has been difficult to face. I am an LGBTQI+ affirming, inclusive therapist. I take an intersectional approach to understand how your various identities (e.g., culture, sex, gender, race, class, religion) interact and influence your relationship to power structures and ideologies.

 

I have training in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, specifically Object Relations, Emotionally Focused Therapy and Gottman Method (Level 1) for couples. I practice from an integrative framework, combining deep insight and understanding into patterns in your relationships with directive skills to affect change in your daily life. I am currently in a two-year certificate program at the Object Relations Institute.

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Specialties​

• Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs)

• Miscarriage/loss

• Birth trauma

• Infertility

• NICU families

• Infidelity/Attachment trauma

• Family & marital conflict

• Consensual non-monogamy

• Co-parenting through divorce

• Attachment parenting

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Credentials

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International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy 

Externship & Core Skills Trainings ​​in EFT for Couples

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The Gottman Institute

Gottman Level 1

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Object Relations Institute

Advanced Studies in Object Relations Theory & Clinical Technique

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​Education

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PAU-Stanford PsyD Consortium

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

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Pepperdine University

Master of Arts in Psychology

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University of Wisconsin-Madison

Bachelor of Arts in Spanish

Bachelor of Arts in Latin American, Caribbean & Iberian Studies

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Training

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Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Motherhood Center of New York

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Pre-Doctoral Internship
VA Sepuleveda

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Past Employment

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The Motherhood Center of New York

Clinical Psychologist

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Pace University

Clinical Supervisor

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Publications

 

Shaw, R.J., Moreyra, A., Simon, S., Wharton, E., Dowtin, L.L., Armer, E., Wallace Goldman, L., Borkovi, T., Neri, E., Jo, B., Hintz, S., Van Meurs, K., Horwitz, S.M. (2023). Group trauma focused cognitive behavior therapy for parents of premature infants compared to individual therapy intervention. Early Human Development, 181. 

 

Simon, S., Moreyra, A., Wharton, E., Downtin, L.L., Borkovi, T.C., Armer, E. & Shaw, R.J. (2021). Prevention of posttraumatic stress disorder in mothers of preterm infants using trauma-focused group therapy: Manual development and evaluation. Early Human Development, 154.

 

Moreyra, A., Simon, S., Wharton, E., Borkovi, T.C., Shaw, R.J. (2021). Group-based trauma intervention for mothers of premature infants. In Treatment of Psychological Distress in Parents of Premature Infants (p. 247-77). Washington DC: American Psychiatric Association Publishing.

 

Moreyra, A., Downtin, L.L., Ocampo, M., Perez, E., Borkovi, T.C., Wharton, E., Simon, S., Armer, E.G., & Shaw, R.J. (2021). Implementing a standardized screening protocol for parental depression, anxiety, and PTSD symptoms in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Early Human Development, 154.