Adoption & Foster Care Therapist Network (AFCTN) Service Directory
As a program of the Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York, the Adoption & Foster Care Therapist Network (AFCTN) seeks to enhance the ability of individuals impacted by adoption, kinship and foster care to have access to mental health professionals who have a clinical expertise in adoption, foster care, trauma, and/or attachment issues. It seeks to achieve its mission by promoting clinical training opportunities for mental health professionals and to have an accessible list of adoption competent mental health professionals to facilitate access to mental health professionals for individuals seeking mental health services.
Finding Competent Help
Find family counseling and therapy services in New York on the Adoption and Foster Care Therapist Network (AFCTN) directory for therapeutic services, adoption counselors and psychologists and post placement support.
Featured listings are Partner Therapists through the Family Adoption Competent Therapy (FACT) Funding Program.
The FACT Funding Program is our pilot initiative launched in 2022. Through various funding sources, the Coalition provides New York youth and families with therapy sessions through our vetted AFCTN membership; New York State therapists proven competent in adoption, attachment, and trauma issues.
Barbara Freedgood, LCSW
NY Metro Area and Hudson Valley
Barbara Robertson, LMSW
Long Island & NY Metro Area
New York State therapists proven competent in adoption, attachment, and trauma issues and interested in partnering under the Family Adoption Competent Therapy (FACT) Funding Program should click the button and fill out the information survey.
The following have been supported through National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training with the AFFCNY-NTI Coaching Consortium Cohort Support
Any practitioner interested in joining the next AFFCNY-NTI Coaching Consortium, please click the button and complete the online form.
The remaining listings are arranged alphabetically with the general service area listed at a glace. Click on the name for more information scudding insurances accepted, credentials, specialisms, training and contact information.
Richard Anemone, M.P.S. LMHC
NYC Metro Area and Long Island
Eva M. Ash, Ph.D
Long Island
Amanda L. Baden, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist
NYC Metro Area
Joanne Bagshaw
NYC Metro Area
Bob Bamman, LCSW
NYC Metro Area
Steven M. Baranowski, LMSW
Westchester
Arthur Becker-Weidman, PhD
Western New York
Laurie M. Belanger, LCSW,
Western New York
Holly Bender, LCSW
North County
Doris Bertocci, LCSW
Westchester
Therese Bimka
NYC Metro Area and Ulster County
Tasha Blaine, LMSW
NYC Metro Area
Lorna Bosak, LCSW-R
Long Island
Emily M Bradley, LCAT
NYC Metro Area
Jennifer Cain, Ph.D.
NYC Metro Area
Michelle Case, LMSW
Syracuse | Finger Lakes
Center for Family Development – NYC Division
NYC Metro Area
Choices Mental Health Counseling
Sullivan
Judy Cooper, LCSW-R
Long Island
Crestwood Center for Child and Family Therapy
Western New York & Geneva District
Suzanne D’Aversa, LCSW
Capital Region
Marie Dolfi, LCSW
Capital District
Karen Dwyer-Tesoriero, LCSW
Long Island, NYC Metro area and Lower Hudson Valley
Easter Seals Diagnostic and Treatment Center
Geneva District
Jill Edelstein MSW, LCSW;
NYC Metro Area
Elizabeth Emen, LMHC
Capital Region
EPIC Long Island
Long Island
Janice L. Eskow, LCSW
Central New York
Dr. Brianna Fava
Long Island
Melanie S. Francis, LCSW
NYC Metro Area
Wendy Freund MSEd., LCSW
NYC Metro Area
Beth Friedberg, LCSW
Westchester/ Lower Hudson Valley
Allison Gold, LCSWR
NYC Metro Area
Jennifer Griesbach, LCSW
NYC Metro Area
Jessica Kim Gruber
NYC Metro Area
Sarah Gugluizza / Rising Lotus Counseling
Hudson Valley
Dr. Howard Gurr
Long Island
Melissa Ten Eyck Hall
Capital Region
Steven Hartman, Psy.D
Long Island
Junaid Hashim, MD
Western New York
Amy Hecht, PhD
Westchester
Dotti Howe, MS, CMHC, CASAC-T
Southern Tier
Inspiring Futures
NYC Metro Area
Leanne Jaffe, LCSW
NYC Metro Area
Just a Little Step LLC
Telehealth ONLY
Dr. Ronald Katz
NY Metro Area
Diane Kopitowsky, MSW; LCSW
Long Island
Danielle La Rocco, MD
NYC Metro Area
Phyllis Lowinger, LCSW
NYC Metro Area
Debbie Lyons, LMFT
Long Island
Anne F. Malave, Ph.D.
NYC Metro Area and Hudson Valley
Joni Mantell MSW, LCSW
NYC Metro Area
Laura McCarthy, LCSW
NY Metro Area
Debra Ann Miller, LCSW-R
Herkimer District
Karen Minsberg, LCSW
NYC Metro Area
Marcella Moslow
Western New York
Judith Myerson, LCSW
Hudson Valley
QuIPP Therapy
Central New York
Deborah Ramirez, Ph.D.
Long Island
Courtney Rennicke
NYC Metro Area
Laurie Coreno Reynolds, LMHC
Capital Region
Shulamit Rishik
NYC Metro Area
Judith Ritterman
Long Island
Mary Beth Rocchio, LCSW
Long Island
Barbara Rothberg D.S.W., LCSW;
NYC Metro Area
Sagamore Children’s Center
Long Island
Suffolk County Psychological Association
Long Island
Maureen T. Shea, LMSW
Long Island
Giles Sieburg, MFTLP
Onondaga
John Sobraske, LMHC, LMFT
Central New York
Athena Spelios, MSW, LCSW
NYC Metro Area
Susan Spieler
NYC Metro Area
Richard Sternberg, Psy.D
NYC Metro Area and Long Island
Julie Stonberg, LMSW
Westchester
Eric Strauss L.C.S.W.-R
NYC Metro Area
Nina Szarafin, LCSW
NYC Metro Area
Pamela Talbott, LCSW
Ithaca and Central New York
Christine Tangel, LCSW
NYC Metro Area
Teitelbaum Psychotherapy
Southern Tier and Central New York
Gail Woods
NYC Metro Area
Mental health clinicians and providers who identify themselves as having experience, training, and specialization in working with foster, kinship, and adoptive families are invited to add or update their practice description in the ATCTN Services Directory: