Cardiologist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Chiropractor providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Dentist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Dermatologist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Family Physician providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
OB-GYN providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Ophthalmologist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Orthopedic Surgeon providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Pediatrician providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Physical Therapist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Podiatrist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Psychiatrist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Laquita is a Board-Certified Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, bringing a rich tapestry of experience to the BWC, underscored by a decade of service as a Registered Nurse. Her proficiency spans the spectrum from acute inpatient settings to the intimate context of home care, providing her with a great understanding of diverse psychiatric conditions and populations.
Her clinical approach is particularly aligned with individuals grappling with depression, anxiety & grief. Laquita's philosophy centers on recognizing the intrinsic worth of joy in everyone's life, and she is committed to guiding her clients back toward that joy with empathy & expertise.
Understanding that the individual is the authority on their own narrative and pain, Laquita offers a collaborative path to healing and personal growth. She invites you to join her in a therapeutic alliance focused on cultivating resilience and achieving your mental health goals with unwavering support.
Holly is both a Family & Psychiatric Mental Health NP with over 8 years of experience caring for the acutely ill, across the lifespan. Through her training as both an FNP & PMHNP, Holly appreciates that mental health is extremely important and has a major impact on our overall health and quality of life. Holly's practice focuses on the treatment of mood disorders, anxiety, trauma/PTSD, ADHD, OCD, insomnia and substance use disorders.
Holly takes a holistic, eclectic approach, incorporating multiple modalities to improve her client's overall health; movement, nature, nutrition, medication & therapy can all be personalized to help promote your overall health and well-being.
Holly is well-practiced in adapting care plans to meet the needs of the patient. Though lots of things work to help people improve their health, not everything works for everyone. You'll work together to adapt our treatment plan for you to get the most out of our time together.
She looks forward to meeting you!
Melissa is a board certified psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner providing compassionate, empathetic psychiatric services to children, adolescents and young adults (8+). She is an expert in the field of adolescent psychiatry, utilizing a non-judgmental, evidence-based approach to compassionately care for patients with a variety of psychiatric disorders. My practice focuses on depression, anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, obsessive compulsive disorders and eating disorders. Melissa is LGBTQ and health at every size aligned.
Melissa comes to BWC with over 12 years of nursing experience in pediatric oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She now utilizing her training from New York University as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner caring for adolescents (13-18) on an inpatient psychiatric unit.
Melissa looks forward to meeting you and working together to achieve your goals!
“It was only my first time meeting with the psychiatrist Dr Varda after having a really awful experience with another psychiatrist who was negligent and repeatedly forgot to refill my medicine. Dr. Varda was very kind and she listened to everything I said, she also offered input and her opinions based on how the medicine I am on can benefit me and what she see's could need to be changed. I am very grateful to now have a responsible psychiatrist who is not only kind but knows what she is doing. :)”
Ms. Melissa Varda, MSN, RN, PMHNP-BC
Psychiatrist
1180 Avenue Of The Americas
8th Floor
New York, NY 10036
Meet Drew, a Board-Certified Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner and Co-Founder of the esteemed Bass Wellness Center (BWC). For the past 9 years, Drew has been at the forefront of delivering inclusive and empathic psychiatric nursing care, primarily focusing on treating anxiety disorders, mood disorders, disordered eating, ADHD, addictions, and LGBTQ-affirmative care. Drew's passion lies in offering individualized care tailored to your unique needs, all within a nurturing, safe, and non-judgmental space.
Drawing on an evidence-based, patient-centered approach, Drew offers a comprehensive range of services, including psychiatric evaluations, medication management, and medication-assisted treatment for substance use disorders. Additionally, she possesses expertise in cognitive testing. She has limited psychotherapy availability – offering an eclectic mix of modalities, including CBT, CBT-E for eating disorders, mindfulness-based techniques, and solution-focused.
“Drew has been a lifesaver for me. She is very knowledgeable, compassionate and has improved the quality of my life. I highly recommend her. The staff is also top notch.”
Ms. Drew Goldbaum-Ratkevich
Psychiatrist
1180 6th Ave
New York, NY 10036
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Mr. Justin Shaw, NP-P, PMHNP-BC
Psychiatrist 21.9 mi
NYU educated Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner We aim to improve the wellbeing of our clients by providing the most advanced, compassionate, evidence-based mental healthcare. We provide a full continuum of psychiatric & addiction services online, at your convenience! BWC can accommodate a range of treatment options - talk therapy, medication management, or a combination – aimed at assisting clients who come across barriers which may impede their ability to reach their goals in their careers, relationships, and work-life balance. Our providers - adjunct faculty of New York University’s Rory Meyers College of Nursing - are committed to ending the stigma associated with mental health and substance use and bring a combined 10 years of experience in psychiatric nursing, addiction nursing and nursing leadership. We look forward to helping you live your best life! We promise to be there for you every step of your journey. Our goal is to help you grow from your struggles.
“Justin and Bass Wellness have been a great practice to work with! Supportive, knowledgeable, and quick to answer any questions about medication or general psych-related needs.”
Dr. Paul is a double board-certified physician in Child/Adolescent & Adult Psychiatry and has been practicing for medicine for the past 22 years. Her expertise are in: anxiety, depression, mood swings, irritability, ADHD, OCD, and identity issues. Dr. Paul is particularly passionate about serving young adults and adolescents, being it is a time of transition and changes for a person of this age. But she is also comfortable treating older adults and children. Dr. Paul has advanced training in the areas of ADHD, OCD, anxiety, and depression. Dr. Paul is trained in medication management for target symptoms. Paul's style is direct, straightforward, and compassionate. When Dr. Paul first starts to work with a patient she tries to understand exactly they are feeling and their symptoms; in their own words. Dr. Paul received her medical training from St. Luke's -Roosevelt Hospital Center Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Dr. Park brings their expertise as a double board-certified physician in internal medicine and psychiatry.
Guiding both Dr. Park’s clinical and personal pursuits is their passion for women’s mental wellness. Dr. Park assists with writing affidavits for those seeking asylum, specifically women who have undergone female genital mutilation and other forms of violence and persecution as a volunteer physician at Physicians for Human Rights and HealthRight International. Dr. Park lends their expertise by providing physical and psychological evaluations for survivors of torture and trauma, and evaluating and documenting evidence of human rights abuses.
At Elevate Medical, they run the Certified SPRAVATO Treatment Center that is FDA Approved for the use of Treatment Resistant Depression (TRD)--tried and failed 2+ anti-depressants. Dr. Park also facilitates in healing and consciousness expansion through Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy .
Dr. Kevin Jean Lemaire is a Psychiatrist providing care to residents of New York and New Jersey. Dr. Lemaire believes in “treating the patient as a whole” and that “laughter is the best medicine”. Dr. Lemaire’s clinical interests include PTSD, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and substance use. Dr. Lemaire studied osteopathic medicine at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in Harlem, NY. He completed his psychiatry residency program at Garnet Health in Middletown, NY, where he researched alternative therapies for PTSD and was also the Chief Resident of his class. Aside from his career, Dr. Lemaire enjoys watching movies, going on road trips, spending time with his family and his pet cat, “Meredith Grey”.
“Dr. Lemaire is so kind and thorough in his practice. You can tell he loves his job and what he does. He takes the time to not just know me as a patient but also as a person. Great guy, great doctor.”
Dr. Hutchinson is a board-certified neurologist and senior faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, Manhattan. His clinical interests include headaches, dementia, concussion, traumatic brain injury (TBI), Parkinson's Disease, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, anxiety, and REM sleep disorders. He has an extensive scientific background and brings a science-based approach to solving clinical problems.
During his residency at the University of Washington, Hutchinson used his knowledge of chaos theory to propose a new way of treating status epilepticus, the most lethal form of epilepsy. The treatment proved successful and is now standard-of-care in the US. Hutchinson later did a sabbatical at Queen Square, London, where Ian McDonald was pioneering the use of beta interferon as the first treatment for multiple sclerosis.
After residency training, Hutchinson underwent a neuroimaging fellowship in Los Angeles.
After arriving at NYU in 1994, Hutchinson pioneered the use of cholinesterase inhibitors as a treatment for the dementia of Parkinson's disease. At the time this was considered forbidden because it might make the patient physically worse, but Hutchinson argued that this premise was ill-conceived. Today, cholineserase inhibitors are standard-of-care in Parkinson's dementia. Hutchinson later developed a new way of treating acute relapses in multiple sclerosis, which puts the patient in charge, and has yielded impressive long-term results.
During his time at NYU, Hutchinson made early contributions to functional MRI, discovering that regional brain activations during cognitive tasks are accompanied by widespread deactivations. In structural imaging, Hutchinson combined physics, neuropathology, and image processing to develop a robust MRI biomarker for Parkinson's disease.
In addition to certification in neurology, Hutchinson is certified in neuroimaging (MRI and CT of the brain and spine), which combines neuroanatomy, neuropathology, and neurophysiology, fields that form the unique base of clinical neurology.
Dr. Hutchinson holds a Ph.D. in molecular physics and is the inventor of spatial sensitivity encoding for MRI - sometimes referred to as parallel MRI - which is now the acknowledged standard for clinical MRI. He is currently exploring a possible extension of this to ultrafast imaging.
Through active listening and careful questioning I aim to provide the highest quality care to my patients. My education at Cornell University Medical College and residency in community psychiatry at Yale University have prepared me to deal with complex issues in a variety of settings . My life experiences has prepared me to deal with issues of ethnic /racial diversity, LGBTQ and spiritual and transcultural barriers
Pascal Saremsky, MD, is a board-certified pediatric neurologist, pediatric epileptologist, and a valuable member of the team at NY Neurology Associates in New York City. He specializes in treating patients from newborns to early adulthood with a personalized and friendly approach that helps his young patients and their parents feel comfortable under his care.
Dr. Saremsky is well-known for his expertise in treating all childhood neurological disorders, including ADHD, autism, epilepsy, and migraines. After a thorough diagnostic evaluation, he prefers to follow a conservative treatment strategy whenever possible, which includes close follow-up and monitoring. He’s also happy to work closely with psychotherapists and neuropsychologists, when appropriate, to ensure accurate evaluations.
Dr. Saremsky trained entirely in New York State. He completed his undergraduate studies at Columbia University and his medical studies at New York Medical College. Dr. Saremsky then received further training through a pediatric residency at Westchester Medical Center, a pediatric neurology fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and a pediatric epilepsy and neurophysiology fellowship at New York Presbyterian Hospital. He is fluent in English and French and fully conversational in Spanish.
His patients and their caregivers can rely on Dr. Saremsky’s warm and caring personality and his skill as a board-certified pediatric neurologist to provide effective, comprehensive, patient-focused treatment for childhood neurological disorders.
“Had some problems with my insurance, but they went through great lengths to ensure I was able to visit today. Appointment was quick and to the-point, great! Thanks”
Dr. Pascal Saremsky, MD
Psychiatrist
7 Gramercy Park West
Lower Level
New York, NY 10003
My career goals have been focused on the LGBTQ population working both as president of AGLP: The Association of LGBTQ Psychiatrists and Director of Psychiatry at Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, one of the largest LGBTQ Medical Centers in the world.
I provide psychotherapy and/or medication management. My training is largely psychodynamic but I use behavioral therapies when needed.
You’re looking for someone who is evidence-based and can think outside the box. Right now may be a particularly challenging moment, or you just know things could be better- and you’re ready to explore how.
You want to take the next step with someone who has time, energy, and attention to really get to know you and your life. You are interested in 360-degree therapy and treatment. Wasting your time and energy, skipping from one half-listening practitioner to another sounds terrible and maybe has been a reason why you've delayed seeking help. I don't blame you, it makes sense.
I believe in a holistic & integrative approach to therapy and medicine and their intelligent use to benefit my patients, including non-pharmacological tools (e.g., light therapy, meditation, & supplements). I see only a small number of clients to deliver high-quality attention, deep listening, and detailed care to each. Reach out & I will be happy to speak with you more about how we can work together.
I have lived in New York for many years after growing up in Chicago and California. After training in General Psychiatry, I pursued MBA training to learn about Organizational Behavior, Corporate Decision Making, and Group Dynamics. My interests include working with clients on multi-cultural issues, and I have experience helping people living with a wide variety of acute and chronic illnesses. My language skills include fluency in German and conversational French.
I have expert training in both psychotherapy and medication management and can provide either or both depending on need. I am board certified in Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine.
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