Upper East Side clients seen at Midtown + online therapy statewide · In-network: Cigna + Aetna

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Currently booking: our Midtown office at 141 East 35th, about 12 minutes from the Upper East Side on the 6, and secure online sessions statewide. You can book a free 15-minute matching call now. For the at-capacity Upper West Side office, see that page.

Upper East Side · Physicians, families, the long view

Upper East Side therapist for work that lasts longer than a protocol

“I take care of patients all day and have no one taking care of me.” “I have tried the eight-session version twice and I want something that actually goes deep.”

The Upper East Side runs on hospitals and the families around them. Many of our patients here are physicians and nurses from Mount Sinai, Lenox Hill, and Weill Cornell, alongside long-settled families who want depth over a quick fix. We are not in the neighborhood itself, so we see Upper East Side clients at our Midtown office, a short ride downtown, or in secure online sessions.

In-network with Cigna and Aetna · superbill on request for out-of-network plans

Serving 10021, 10028, 10065, 10075 and 10128

What does therapy in the Upper East Side look like at Therapy24x7?

Therapy24x7 sees adults in the Upper East Side and across all of New York State via secure online video, weekly, with the same clinician each week. Sessions take place at the practice’s Midtown Manhattan office (141 East 35th Street) or online statewide, no rotating therapists and no session quotas. The primary orientation is psychodynamic and relational, with evidence-based methods woven in when useful. The practice is in-network with Cigna and Aetna; for other carriers, we provide out-of-network superbills for possible reimbursement.

What we hear from Upper East Side patients

The people who care for everyone else

Physicians who triage all day and cannot triage their own week. Parents managing aging parents and growing kids in the same phone call. “I am the one everyone leans on, and I have run out of places to put it.” The long-term frame is built for exactly this.

Zip codes we serve from the Upper East Side: 10021, 10028, 10065, 10075 and 10128

The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue, its neoclassical facade and front steps, in the Upper East Side neighborhood Therapy24x7 serves — The Met steps on Fifth Avenue · Upper East Side clients are seen at Midtown or online

What we treat for Upper East Side patients

Specialties, with the depth on each linked page

Caregiver anxiety

For the person the whole family and ward leans on.

Long-term depression

Depth-oriented work that holds across years, not eight weeks.

Physician burnout

The specific erosion of medicine, charting, and night call.

Grief and loss

Including the losses clinicians carry home and rarely name.

Aging parents and empty nest

Sandwiched between generations, and who you are inside it.

Perinatal and fertility

Pregnancy, postpartum, fertility, and IVF, with real depth.

How it works

Three steps, in person at Midtown or online

Pick a time

Book a free 15-minute call with our care team, online or by phone.

Get matched

Our care team matches you with the right clinician for what you are working through, your schedule, and your insurance.

Start therapy

Begin at our Midtown office, or by secure online session between shifts or after rounds.

Getting to our nearest office (Midtown)

From the Upper East Side to 141 East 35th

Midtown office: 141 East 35th Street, New York, NY 10016 (between Lexington and Third)

Phone:917-780-2171

Or skip the commute: secure online sessions from home or the office, anywhere in New York State.

6 from 68th or 77th St to 33rd St: about 12 minutes, then a 3-minute walk
45 express from 86th St to 59th, transfer to the 6: similar time, fewer stops
Q from 72nd or 86th St to 57th St-7th Ave, then a crosstown hop
Or hold the session online, which many hospital staff prefer between shifts

Upper East Side FAQs

Before you book

I am a physician with no predictable schedule: how does this work?

We hold early and late slots, and online sessions let you keep a standing weekly time even when the ward does not cooperate. Several of our clinicians work specifically with hospital staff and understand call, charting fatigue, and the culture that says you should be fine.

This page is about the Upper East Side, but I saw you have an Upper West Side office: which do I use?

The Upper West Side office is real but currently at capacity. New clients from either side of the park start at our Midtown office or online. If you are an existing Upper West Side patient, keep your arrangement there and see that page.

I want long-term, depth-oriented therapy, not a symptom checklist: is that what you do?

Yes, and it is the core of how this team works. We are psychodynamic, which means we follow the pattern under the symptom, and many patients stay for years rather than weeks. We offer shorter work too when that is the right fit.

Do you treat the parents of teenagers, even if the teen will not come in?

Yes. We do individual work with parents on their own reactions and the patterns at home. That often shifts things more than dragging a reluctant teen to a chair ever would.

Can I pay with an FSA or HSA card, and is the billing private?

Yes to both FSA and HSA, since psychotherapy qualifies. The charge reads as a standard medical line and a personal card keeps it off any shared account.

You take care of everyone. Start with one hour that is yours.

The 15-minute matching call places you at our Midtown office or in secure online sessions across New York State. We go over the exact questions to ask your Aetna or Cigna plan on the same call: no obligation, no card.

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In person or online

Where Upper East Side clients are seen

In person at Midtown141 East 35th, our anchor Manhattan office Online therapy across New York StateSame matched clinician, secure video, anywhere in NY

Reviewed by Efrat Gotlib, LCSW, Founder & Clinical Director, Therapy24x7 (NPI: 1720225683).

Doorman, neighbors, school pickup overlap. Why Upper East Side patients want their therapist elsewhere.

The Upper East Side has a specific social architecture. The school network, the building network, the charity board overlap, the trainer who knows your neighbor, the dinner party that contains four people from two overlapping social groups. Knowing each other is the medium through which a certain kind of Upper East Side life operates.

Which means the question of where your therapy practice is located carries more weight than it does in many other neighborhoods. A therapist two blocks from your building is also two blocks from your neighbor's building, your co-op board member's dry cleaner, the corner where the school run passes every morning. The overlap is not hypothetical.

Midtown at 141 East 35th Street is not part of that geography. The building at 35th Street serves a professional population that does not intersect with the Upper East Side social network. The lobby does not have a doorman who knows your last name. Arriving at 10am on a Tuesday does not produce a recognition event.

Some patients name this explicitly on the matching call. Others have clearly thought about it without saying so. Either way, it is worth knowing that the structural separation between the practice location and your neighborhood is real : and that for people who value their privacy in a social environment where privacy is structurally complicated, the 12-minute subway ride to the 6 train and then down to 33rd Street is doing a specific kind of work.

We work with adults, individually. Fifty-minute sessions, weekly. We are in-network with Aetna and Cigna.

I know several people who go to therapy : is there any risk of running into a neighbor or acquaintance at your office?

The Midtown office serves a geographically broad patient population. The likelihood of a neighbor encounter is low and no higher than at any Midtown medical building. If this concern is active for you, it is worth raising on the matching call : we can describe the building and entry situation so you have a concrete picture, not an abstraction to worry about.

Before you book: the questions Upper East Side patients ask first

Tap any question to read the answer.

My family uses Cigna through a benefits manager at a private school — does that version of Cigna work at your practice?

Cigna administered through employer or school benefit plans is generally accepted here at the in-network rate, but the specific plan structure varies. We confirm your exact cost-sharing on the matching call before anything is scheduled. Bring your insurance card and we will check the actual numbers.

School holidays and long weekends frequently break my weekly schedule — how do consistent patients handle that?

Most long-term patients reschedule around school holidays rather than skipping entirely. If the holiday calendar is predictable — and on the Upper East Side it often is — you and your clinician can map the likely adjustment weeks early in the year so the disruptions are planned rather than reactive.

My partner thinks I should try talking to friends instead of starting therapy — how do I think about that?

Friends can hold a lot, but they cannot hold everything. The things most worth examining in therapy — the pattern that keeps appearing across relationships, the gap between the internal experience and the external presentation — are often exactly the things that feel too risky or too complicated to bring to a friendship. That is not a limitation of friendship. It is a structural difference.

I am recently divorced and not sure I am ready to start — what is the right time?

There is no correct window. People start immediately after a major change because they need somewhere to put it. People start years later when the surface has settled but something underneath has not. The 15-minute matching call is low-commitment — it is not the same as starting therapy, and it can answer the logistical questions before you decide whether the timing is right.