Empowering You to Achieve
Lasting Growth and Well-Being

My commitment to you is that you gain insight and empowerment toward achieving your personal, relationship, and professional goals.

Whether it’s your first time seeking therapy, or you are returning, the experience can be a big step toward resolving your concerns. Throughout the course of our lives, we are presented with challenges. Psychotherapy can be helpful in both meeting those challenges, and developing the understanding and skills to cope successfully in the future.

With the guidance and support of a trained professional, psychotherapy can offer effective tools to help address and ultimately resolve your concerns. As your therapist, my interest lies in listening to you and coming to a clear and accurate understanding of your concerns. Embarking on a collaborative journey together, I look forward to helping you identify and express your thoughts and feelings, clarify needs and goals, determine new and effective strategies, and support and encourage your decisions.

25 yrs

Clinical Experience

4,000+

Post-Grad Clinical Hours

Languages Beyond English

Ackerman

Institute Family Training

What Brings You Here

Support built around where you are right now.

Individual Therapy

A space of your own to work through anxiety, depression, relationships, or workplace challenges as well as any life transition.

Couples Therapy

Build closer intimacy and more effective communication by navigating topics such as marriage, parenthood, or cultural conflict.

Family Therapy

Understand your family’s dynamics, roles, and communication patterns — sessions with the full family or a subunit.

Groups

A supported, confidential group setting to feel less alone while working through shared struggles.

My Approach

Five clinical lenses, one holistic understanding of you.

My work draws on psychodynamic, relational, and humanistic theory, along with family systems — a blend that lets me build a genuinely holistic view of each person, couple, and family I work with, rather than fitting you into a single framework.

Psychodynamic

Object Relations

Attachment

Relational

Humanistic

Family Systems

Why Work With Simona

Depth of experience, without losing warmth.

Multilingual Practice

Sessions available in English, Farsi, and French — genuinely serving NYC's cross-cultural community.

Both-Coast Experience

25 years practicing across Los Angeles and New York, with a culturally and professionally diverse clientele.

Collaborative, Not Clinical

An objective, non-judgmental listener who works with you as a partner — not a distant authority.

Every Format, One Practice

Individual, couples, family, and group therapy under a single, consistent therapeutic relationship.

Rigorously Trained

MSW from USC, 4,000+ post-graduate clinical hours, and a two-year externship at the Ackerman Institute.

Easy to Reach

Text, call, or email directly — reaching out is never harder than the problem you're bringing to it.

Getting Started

Three simple steps to your first session.

01 / Reach Out

Call, text, or fill out the form

Tell me a little about what you’re going through. I respond within one business day.

02 / Free Consult

A brief 15-minute call

We’ll talk through what you need and make sure it feels like the right fit before you commit to anything.

03 / Begin Care

Your first session

In-person in Midtown Manhattan or via telehealth — regular sessions build the roadmap forward together.

Issues We Work Through

Whatever brought you here, there's likely a name for it.

Relationship Issues

Intimacy

Communication

Sex

Trust & Commitment

Roles & Expectations

Break-ups & Loss

Cross-Cultural Issues

Pre-Marital Counseling

Family Issues

Marital Discord

Parent/Child Conflict

Sibling Rivalry

Parenting Skills

Separating

Blended Families

Fertility Issues

Life Transitions

Passions & Goals

Career Choices

College Life

Social Isolation

Adjusting to Parenthood

Divorce

Adulting

Aging

What Clients Are Saying

Trust built one session at a time.

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A session with Simona feels safe; she cultivates an environment that feels like it truly belongs to you alone, and she doesn’t pass judgement on anything you choose to share.

A.S., 28

Fertility Issues

"

Simona is absolutely fantastic. She’s patient and intuitive — knowing when to listen, and when to provide insight and ask thought provoking questions.

Sarah, 25

Anxiety

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Simona has helped me discover and uncover my feelings when I am not able to do so by myself — it’s had a profound and lasting effect on me.

M., Client

Individual

Sessions & Logistics

Answers before you reach out.

Do you accept insurance?

I operate as an out-of-network provider. Many clients successfully seek reimbursement through their PPO plan’s out-of-network benefits — I can provide a superbill on request.

Is therapy available virtually?

Yes — I offer both in-person sessions at my Midtown Manhattan office and secure telehealth sessions for clients across New York and California.

How long are sessions, and how often do we meet?

Individual sessions are 50 minutes. Most clients begin with weekly sessions, which tends to be the most effective cadence, and we adjust frequency together as needed.

Do you see couples and families together?

Yes. I regularly work with couples and with families as a full unit or a subunit (such as one parent and child) when meeting together isn’t possible.

What languages do you speak?

I practice in English, Farsi, and French, and welcome clients from all cultural backgrounds.

Find the Office

1115 Broadway, 12th Floor

(16 Madison Sq. West @ W. 25th St.), New York, NY 10010

Subway

N, R, W · B, D, F, M · 1 and 6 trains to 23rd Street

Reach Out Directly

simonashokrian@gmail.com · 310-963-8349 (call or text)