ABOUT
Our Practice
Relational, trauma-informed therapy in Midtown Manhattan for people who are ready to do deeper work.
What We’re About
We help clients understand the patterns underneath anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship struggles, burnout, and self-worth: so therapy can become a place for real change, not just temporary relief.
Our clinicians share a commitment to relational, trauma-informed care, while bringing different specialties, identities, training backgrounds, and areas of focus to the work. If you are not sure who to choose, we will help match you with a therapist based on what you are looking for and what may fit best.
Combined Clinical Hours
10,000+
Combined Clinical Hours
10,000+
Patients Helped
300+
Patients Helped
300+
Years of Experience
40+
Years of Experience
40+
Commitment to ongoing training
100%
Commitment to ongoing training
100%
WHO WE ARE
At McGarril Mental Health Counseling, we’re more than just a group practice.
We’re a team of lifelong learners dedicated to evidence-based, trauma-informed care. Our clinicians share a commitment to providing excellent care, while bringing different specialties, identities, training backgrounds, and areas of focus to the work.
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Our Approach
Clinical Standards
Relational
Therapy is not just insight work. It is also about what happens between people, including in the therapy room itself. We pay attention to those moments because they often show us where change needs to happen.
Relational
Therapy is not just insight work. It is also about what happens between people, including in the therapy room itself. We pay attention to those moments because they often show us where change needs to happen.
Trauma-informed
Trauma can reorganize how the nervous system works, how relationships feel, and how daily life gets experienced. Our work emphasizes safety, pacing, and careful attention to what each client is ready to approach, and at what pace.
Trauma-informed
Trauma can reorganize how the nervous system works, how relationships feel, and how daily life gets experienced. Our work emphasizes safety, pacing, and careful attention to what each client is ready to approach, and at what pace.
Training first
Good therapy requires ongoing learning. Our clinicians are committed to consultation, continued training, and thoughtful clinical development so the care we offer stays grounded, current, and responsible.
Training first
Good therapy requires ongoing learning. Our clinicians are committed to consultation, continued training, and thoughtful clinical development so the care we offer stays grounded, current, and responsible.
TEAM
Meet the Team
Lindsay McGarril
Founder, LMHC-D, LPC
Lindsay is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 10 years of experience working with adolescents and adults from diverse backgrounds. She offers an active, collaborative therapeutic style and creates a warm, honest space for clients to make difficult life changes. Lindsay is trained in multiple evidence-based therapies including EMDR and provides both individual and couples therapy.
Vassiliki Pappas
LMHC, NCC
Vassiliki is a licensed mental health counselor and nationally certified counselor who specializes in working with children, teenagers, and adults. She has worked in various mental health settings since 2017, utilizing a collaborative and eclectic approach tailored to each individual's needs. Vassiliki is bilingual in English and Greek and emphasizes the mind-body connection in her therapeutic work.
May Steinberg
MHC-LP
May is a prelicensed professional who works with adults, centering intersectional identities in her work, and is committed to honoring the complexities that they hold within a white-centered, patriarchal society. Despite the seriousness of this mission, she is quick to find humor in all things and, through experience, uses it as a tool to explore injustice, emotions, and even trauma. She is trauma-informed and uses a client-centered approach that prioritizes the strength of the therapeutic relationship as a route to emotional tolerance and positive change.
Rebecca Heller
LMHC-D, LPC, NCC
Rebecca is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (with experience since 2018), working as both a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor at MMHC. She has extensive experience working with both young adults and adults from various different backgrounds. She holds additional certifications in grief and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. She has also completed a training course in Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADs) as well as trauma-informed approaches. Rebecca emphasizes the importance of self-compassion and mindfulness while creating a warm, safe, and non-judgmental environment.
Nuna Ali Eboe
MHC-LP
Nuna is a provisionally licensed mental health counselor specializing in working with adult individuals and couples from marginalized communities, including LGBTQIA+, immigrants, sex workers, and those in non-traditional relationships. They bring a trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and client-centered approach to therapy. Nuna has a background in media and creative production, which informs their therapeutic work with individuals in TV, film, and commercial production.
Valeriya Shipulya
MHC-LP
Valeriya is a provisionally licensed therapist who earned her Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling from New York University. She has experience working with people of different ages and backgrounds, supporting a wide range of mental health concerns across various clinical settings. She also brings over three years of experience in crisis counseling. Currently, she primarily works with adults navigating anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Her approach is empathic, collaborative, and patient-led, remaining flexible to each client’s unique needs while creating a supportive, non-judgmental space for growth. She is also EMDR trained.
Olivia Clavie
MHC-LP
Olivia is a provisionally licensed mental health counselor with a background in women's, gender, and sexuality studies alongside psychology and counseling. She has several years of experience in community mental health settings working with people of all ages and backgrounds. Olivia is Gottman Level 1 certified and takes a humanistic, client-centered approach to therapy. Olivia is also EMDR trained.
Alexa Ferst
MHC-LP
Alexa is a provisionally licensed therapist committed to supporting individuals of all ages and backgrounds on their journey toward healing and personal growth. She specializes in working with adults navigating challenging life experiences and adjusting to change, with education from CUNY's Clinical Mental Health Counseling Master's Program. Alexa takes a client-centered approach rooted in empathy, respect, and cultural sensitivity with a strong belief in the mind-body connection.
Lindsay McGarril
Founder, LMHC-D, LPC
Lindsay is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 10 years of experience working with adolescents and adults from diverse backgrounds. She offers an active, collaborative therapeutic style and creates a warm, honest space for clients to make difficult life changes. Lindsay is trained in multiple evidence-based therapies including EMDR and provides both individual and couples therapy.
Olivia Clavie
MHC-LP
Olivia is a provisionally licensed mental health counselor with a background in women's, gender, and sexuality studies alongside psychology and counseling. She has several years of experience in community mental health settings working with people of all ages and backgrounds. Olivia is Gottman Level 1 certified and takes a humanistic, client-centered approach to therapy. Olivia is also EMDR trained.
Nuna Ali Eboe
MHC-LP
Nuna is a provisionally licensed mental health counselor specializing in working with adult individuals and couples from marginalized communities, including LGBTQIA+, immigrants, sex workers, and those in non-traditional relationships. They bring a trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and client-centered approach to therapy. Nuna has a background in media and creative production, which informs their therapeutic work with individuals in TV, film, and commercial production.
May Steinberg
MHC-LP
May is a prelicensed professional who works with adults, centering intersectional identities in her work, and is committed to honoring the complexities that they hold within a white-centered, patriarchal society. Despite the seriousness of this mission, she is quick to find humor in all things and, through experience, uses it as a tool to explore injustice, emotions, and even trauma. She is trauma-informed and uses a client-centered approach that prioritizes the strength of the therapeutic relationship as a route to emotional tolerance and positive change.
Rebecca Heller
LMHC-D, LPC, NCC
Rebecca is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (with experience since 2018), working as both a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor at MMHC. She has extensive experience working with both young adults and adults from various different backgrounds. She holds additional certifications in grief and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. She has also completed a training course in Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADs) as well as trauma-informed approaches. Rebecca emphasizes the importance of self-compassion and mindfulness while creating a warm, safe, and non-judgmental environment.
Vassiliki Pappas
LMHC, NCC
Vassiliki is a licensed mental health counselor and nationally certified counselor who specializes in working with children, teenagers, and adults. She has worked in various mental health settings since 2017, utilizing a collaborative and eclectic approach tailored to each individual's needs. Vassiliki is bilingual in English and Greek and emphasizes the mind-body connection in her therapeutic work.
Alexa Ferst
MHC-LP
Alexa is a provisionally licensed therapist committed to supporting individuals of all ages and backgrounds on their journey toward healing and personal growth. She specializes in working with adults navigating challenging life experiences and adjusting to change, with education from CUNY's Clinical Mental Health Counseling Master's Program. Alexa takes a client-centered approach rooted in empathy, respect, and cultural sensitivity with a strong belief in the mind-body connection.
Valeriya Shipulya
MHC-LP
Valeriya is a provisionally licensed therapist who earned her Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling from New York University. She has experience working with people of different ages and backgrounds, supporting a wide range of mental health concerns across various clinical settings. She also brings over three years of experience in crisis counseling. Currently, she primarily works with adults navigating anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Her approach is empathic, collaborative, and patient-led, remaining flexible to each client’s unique needs while creating a supportive, non-judgmental space for growth. She is also EMDR trained.
Lindsay McGarril
Founder, LMHC-D, LPC
Lindsay is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 10 years of experience working with adolescents and adults from diverse backgrounds. She offers an active, collaborative therapeutic style and creates a warm, honest space for clients to make difficult life changes. Lindsay is trained in multiple evidence-based therapies including EMDR and provides both individual and couples therapy.
Rebecca Heller
LMHC-D, LPC, NCC
Rebecca is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (with experience since 2018), working as both a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor at MMHC. She has extensive experience working with both young adults and adults from various different backgrounds. She holds additional certifications in grief and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. She has also completed a training course in Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADs) as well as trauma-informed approaches. Rebecca emphasizes the importance of self-compassion and mindfulness while creating a warm, safe, and non-judgmental environment.
Olivia Clavie
MHC-LP
Olivia is a provisionally licensed mental health counselor with a background in women's, gender, and sexuality studies alongside psychology and counseling. She has several years of experience in community mental health settings working with people of all ages and backgrounds. Olivia is Gottman Level 1 certified and takes a humanistic, client-centered approach to therapy. Olivia is also EMDR trained.
Vassiliki Pappas
LMHC, NCC
Vassiliki is a licensed mental health counselor and nationally certified counselor who specializes in working with children, teenagers, and adults. She has worked in various mental health settings since 2017, utilizing a collaborative and eclectic approach tailored to each individual's needs. Vassiliki is bilingual in English and Greek and emphasizes the mind-body connection in her therapeutic work.
Nuna Ali Eboe
MHC-LP
Nuna is a provisionally licensed mental health counselor specializing in working with adult individuals and couples from marginalized communities, including LGBTQIA+, immigrants, sex workers, and those in non-traditional relationships. They bring a trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and client-centered approach to therapy. Nuna has a background in media and creative production, which informs their therapeutic work with individuals in TV, film, and commercial production.
Alexa Ferst
MHC-LP
Alexa is a provisionally licensed therapist committed to supporting individuals of all ages and backgrounds on their journey toward healing and personal growth. She specializes in working with adults navigating challenging life experiences and adjusting to change, with education from CUNY's Clinical Mental Health Counseling Master's Program. Alexa takes a client-centered approach rooted in empathy, respect, and cultural sensitivity with a strong belief in the mind-body connection.
May Steinberg
MHC-LP
May is a prelicensed professional who works with adults, centering intersectional identities in her work, and is committed to honoring the complexities that they hold within a white-centered, patriarchal society. Despite the seriousness of this mission, she is quick to find humor in all things and, through experience, uses it as a tool to explore injustice, emotions, and even trauma. She is trauma-informed and uses a client-centered approach that prioritizes the strength of the therapeutic relationship as a route to emotional tolerance and positive change.
Valeriya Shipulya
MHC-LP
Valeriya is a provisionally licensed therapist who earned her Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling from New York University. She has experience working with people of different ages and backgrounds, supporting a wide range of mental health concerns across various clinical settings. She also brings over three years of experience in crisis counseling. Currently, she primarily works with adults navigating anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Her approach is empathic, collaborative, and patient-led, remaining flexible to each client’s unique needs while creating a supportive, non-judgmental space for growth. She is also EMDR trained.
You’re welcome here.
Whether you’re reaching out for yourself or helping someone find care, we’ll help you take the next step .
You’re welcome here.
Whether you’re reaching out for yourself or helping someone find care, we’ll help you take the next step .
You’re welcome here.
Whether you’re reaching out for yourself or helping someone find care, we’ll help you take the next step .
You’re welcome here.
Whether you’re reaching out for yourself or helping someone find care, we’ll help you take the next step .