Behavioral Health Professionals to Know 2025

Board Certified PMHNP & Mental Health Expert: Bridging Psychiatry, Psychology, and Real-Life Dynamics (Relationships, ADHD, Crisis Care). With over 14 years of clinical experience, I bring a rare dual perspective to mental health coverage: the diagnostic precision of a medical professional combined with the empathetic, human-centric approach of a psychologist. My practice is not just about treating symptoms; it is about decoding the human behaviors behind them. ​Covering the full lifespan—from 5-year-olds to geriatric patients—I am able to speak authoritatively on family dynamics at every stage of life. CORE EXPERTISE FOR MEDIA: ​1. Interpersonal Relationships & Couples Dynamics: My work focuses on the psychology of connection. I provide insights on conflict resolution, "mixed-neurotype" couples (e.g., ADHD partners), and navigating modern family stressors. The goal is to explain why people fight, rather than simply medicating the anxiety it causes. ​2. ADHD & Neurodivergence (Lived Experience): My perspective on neurodivergence is grounded in deep personal reality, not just clinical theory. As the sole legal guardian and caretaker of a blind uncle with profound autism, I understand caretaking and sensory processing from the inside out. This allows me to discuss how executive dysfunction truly affects careers, marriages, and self-esteem. ​3. The "Human Approach" to Mental Health: Building rapport with anyone—from non-verbal patients to high-functioning executives—is the cornerstone of my method. I can discuss the art of overcoming resistance to therapy and de-stigmatizing mental health in conservative cultures. ​4. Clinical Authority: ​Frontline Experience: Currently serving on staff at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center (Psychiatric ER & Inpatient), dealing with acute crisis stabilization. ​Industry Thought Leadership: Selected by a major pharmaceutical company to consult on a breakthrough treatment for Postpartum Depression. ​Multicultural Perspective: Fluent in English, Russian, and Farsi, offering unique insights into immigrant mental health.

I'm a dedicated psychotherapist and founder of Uncover Mental Health Counseling. With a deep understanding of cultural dynamics and a commitment to helping diverse communities, I'm passionate about guiding individuals toward healthier, more fulfilling relationships. With a background in Psychology, Mental Health Counseling, and LGBT Health, I specialize in working through generational and racial trauma, anxiety, self-esteem issues, and relationship challenges. I also provide support for relationship conflicts, family dynamics, teen counseling, parenting, grief and loss, and addiction, offering a compassionate space for growth and healing.

Behavioral threat assessment and workplace violence prevention expert with 35+ years in public safety, consulting, and criminal justice education.

I am a Board Certified Psychiatrist, Duke MBA graduate, and founder of shrinkMD, a national virtual mental health platform dedicated to providing accessible, high quality psychiatric care to adults. With over a decade of clinical experience, I’ve treated individuals from all walks of life ranging from high performing executives and elite athletes to students and underserved populations. My approach blends deep clinical insight with the strategic thinking of a healthcare entrepreneur, giving me a unique lens into the future of mental health care. My background in sports psychiatry includes consulting roles with professional organizations like the NFL and Jacksonville Jaguars, where I’ve supported athletes in navigating performance pressure, identity challenges, and psychological recovery from injury. These experiences have sharpened my focus on mental resilience, optimization, and the intricate connection between mind and body. I'm widely recognized for my work in urgent care psychiatry, helping patients find rapid, effective relief from acute mental health challenges without the long wait times that plague traditional systems. At shrinkMD, I lead a care model rooted in the biopsychosocial and spiritual framework, ensuring that every individual is treated as more than a diagnosis honoring their unique history, strengths, and personal bandwidth. Beyond clinical care, I’m deeply committed to addressing the systemic barriers that keep people from accessing mental health services whether that’s a lack of providers, financial constraints, stigma, or outdated delivery models. My work sits at the intersection of mental health innovation, digital health, and patient centered care, and I’m passionate about changing the narrative around what psychiatric support can look like in today’s world. I am a trusted voice on a range of topics, including telepsychiatry, burnout, workplace mental health, healthcare equity, emotional wellness, performance psychology, and the future of virtual care. I provide clear, concise, and thought provoking commentary that connects clinical science with real life relevance whether it's for national media, healthcare publications, or expert panels. If you're seeking an authoritative, articulate, and forward thinking mental health expert, I’m available to provide expert insight, commentary, and collaborative thought leadership.

Jennifer Miller, LCSW-S, is a trauma psychotherapist and clinical educator with expertise in nervous system–informed care. Her work focuses on how trauma, chronic stress, and lack of safety shape regulation, decision-making, and emotional capacity. She specializes in translating neuroscience into clear, accessible language, offering a nervous system–first perspective on mental health that challenges one-size-fits-all coping and calming advice.

Dr. Ishdeep Narang is a dual board-certified psychiatrist and the founder of ACES Psychiatry in Orlando, Winter Garden/Windermere, Florida. Specializing in the treatment of children, adolescents, and adults, Dr. Narang is dedicated to providing expert, empathetic care. His medical training includes a degree from Government Medical College in Amritsar, India, followed by a Psychiatry Residency at Case Western Reserve University/MetroHealth in Cleveland, Ohio. He subsequently completed a Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in Elmhurst, New York, where he served as Chief Fellow. Dr. Narang holds active medical licenses in Florida and New York and is ECFMG certified. Beyond his clinical practice, he is a committed mental health advocate, actively producing educational resources to combat stigma.

Brad Lieberman is a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC) with a Juris Doctor (retired) and prior experience as a startup Chief Privacy Officer. Columbia and Johns Hopkins trained, he founded The Lieberman Center for Psychotherapeutics in New York, where he provides concierge psychiatric care to executives, attorneys, physicians, and other high-functioning professionals. He is also the founder of The Encrypted Chart — operational privacy guidance for solo and small-group healthcare practices. The combination of clinical psychiatry, legal, and privacy expertise makes him quotable across the full mental-health-practice ecosystem: GLP-1 medication side effects, executive and attorney burnout, and concierge psychiatric care on the clinical side; HIPAA, AI scribes, telehealth privacy, and digital-tool compliance risk for independent practices on the operational side. Recently quoted in The Washington Times on "Ozempic personality" and GLP-1 mental health (April 2026). Brad Lieberman, JD (retired), MSN, PMHNP-BC Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner — Columbia and Johns Hopkins trained Founder, The Lieberman Center for Psychotherapeutics — New York, NY Founder, The Encrypted Chart — privacy guidance for healthcare practice Phone: 212-470-3603 Web: lcptherapy.com · encryptedchart.com

I hold a B.S. in Life Science and a Doctorate in Chiropractic, and my passion for mental wellness took a personal turn after a close loved one faced a suicide crisis. This experience fueled my drive to find practical, impactful solutions for mental wellness that can be integrated into everyday life and business environments. As a Mental Wellness Integration Architect, I specialize in helping businesses incorporate mental wellness strategies into their operations to support clients and employees. My work involves designing and implementing tailored mental wellness frameworks that improve stress management, reduce burnout, and foster resilience—while also generating new revenue streams through product recommendations and wellness conversations. My approach empowers businesses to make a difference without needing prior expertise in mental health, creating long-term impact and profitability.

As a licensed psychotherapist with over 25 years of experience, I provide individual, couple, and family treatment at Samaritan Counseling Center of the Capital Region. I also offer telehealth services and accept most insurances. My goal is to help people change and progress in their lives by examining their assumptions and understanding their origins. I am also a clinical approved supervisor at AAMFT, where I mentor and nurture the strengths and resources of marriage and family therapists and trainees. I have a PhD certificate in psychodynamic psychotherapy from the Institute for Clinical Social Work and post-graduate training in neuroscience and clinical treatment from Harvard Medical School. I am certified in grief counseling, social work health care, gerontology, advanced bereavement, PASRR, disaster mental health critical responder, and QCSW. I am committed to refining my clinical and supervisory skills and staying involved in the professional mental wellness community. I am licensed in NY and in AZ. Please review my LinkedIn profile for additional information about me. Thank you for your interest in my passions.

Psychologist & Yoga Expert | Public Health Leader | SBCC Specialist Driving systemic change in mental health through a behavior-first, body-mind approach. I combine 23+ years of clinical and public health expertise (UNICEF, KPMG, Sangath) with a deep mastery of Yoga as a therapeutic intervention. I am a published researcher (15+ publications) and an IIM-certified strategist dedicated to integrating evidence-based interventions to scale mental healthcare access across India.

Avi Miodownik, PsyD, is a licensed clinical psychologist in New York and New Jersey specializing in geriatric mental health, grief, end-of-life care, and oncology. He works with older adults and their families navigating some of life's most complex transitions — serious illness, loss, and the psychological dimensions of aging. A former senior clinician at the VA, he now runs a private practice in New York City. He also works with LGBTQ+ individuals and couples, with particular experience supporting gay men's mental health across the lifespan. He is available to comment on aging, grief, caregiver burden, end-of-life psychology, mental health in older adults, and LGBTQ+ health and wellbeing.

Seema Sharma, SEP, LMFT, PhD is one of the most distinctively credentialed trauma clinicians working today — a former Fortune 500 executive turned trauma therapist, researcher, and founder whose career spans the neuroscience of healing, the psychology of high achievement, and the lived complexity of BIPOC identity in America. Seema is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, AASECT-Certified Sex Therapist, Gottman Level 3-trained couples therapist, and holds a doctorate in Psychology. She holds an MBA, a Master's in Counseling Psychology, and has trained directly under field-defining voices including Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing), Gabor Maté (Compassionate Inquiry), and Dan Siegel (Interpersonal Neurobiology). Before entering clinical practice, Seema spent over 25 years in senior leadership across Fortune 500 companies, global organizations, and startups — leading international teams, navigating high-stakes corporate environments, and experiencing firsthand the invisible toll that sustained performance pressure places on the nervous system. That rare dual fluency — in both boardroom dynamics and trauma neuroscience — makes her an exceptionally credible and sought-after expert for journalists, editors, and producers covering the intersection of mental health and the modern workplace. As Founder of Holistic Trauma Therapy (Pasadena, Newport Beach, and Claremont, CA), Seema specializes in complex PTSD, developmental and childhood trauma, attachment wounds, religious and organizational abuse, sexual trauma, corporate burnout, and the mental health of high-achieving professionals. Her approach goes beyond traditional talk therapy — integrating Somatic Experiencing, Holistic EMDR, depth psychology, IFS, sensorimotor therapy, energy psychology, and transpersonal healing to address trauma as it lives in the body, not just the mind. Seema is one of the few trauma experts in the country who can speak credibly to how unprocessed trauma manifests in leadership behavior, executive dysfunction, perfectionism, people-pleasing, and high-functioning anxiety. She also holds deep clinical expertise in Asian-American mental health — including intergenerational trauma, cultural shame, the immigrant experience, and the identity pressures facing first- and second-generation Asian-Americans navigating Western professional culture. She has been featured in Canvas Rebel, Voyage LA, and Good, presents at conferences, and publishes countless research studies on trauma accessible via ResearchGate. She is a professor, board member, and lifelong student of holistic healing across traditions — having traveled globally to study indigenous, Eastern, African, and Latin healing practices alongside Western clinical models. Seema is available to comment on: trauma and the nervous system, somatic therapy, EMDR, complex PTSD, executive mental health and burnout, the psychology of high achievement, perfectionism and high-functioning anxiety, workplace trauma and organizational abuse, religious trauma, sexual trauma and healing, psychedelic integration, Asian-American mental health, intergenerational trauma, consciousness and the neuroscience of healing, and loneliness as a clinical phenomenon. Media inquiries: holistictraumatherapy.com | Pasadena, CA

Carole Lieberman, M.D., M.P.H. is a Board Certified Psychiatrist (Clinical and Forensic), known worldwide as America's Psychiatrist and The Terrorist Therapist®. She's a 3x Emmy Honored Media Psychiatrist, Bestselling/Award-winning author of 4 books: 2 on terrorism and 2 on relationships. Featured on top media outlets-including: FOX, CNN, Newsmax, Today, GMA, Court TV, ABC, NBC, CBS. Trained at NYU-Bellevue (Chief Resident), Anna Freud's London Clinic, UCLA-NIMH fellowship award recipient to receive Masters in Public Health, Testified before Congress several times re: violence, drugs, alcohol in media. www.terroristtherapist.com www.expertwitnessforensicpsychiatrist.com www.drcarole.com

Greg Doney is the Director of Goodsky Mental Health Retreat, a premium residential mental health programme on Australia’s Sunshine Coast. He has spent nearly 20 years designing personalised recovery programmes for people experiencing trauma, PTSD, depression, anxiety, and burnout. Greg specialises in trauma recovery, integrating somatic therapy, nervous system regulation, nutrition, and metabolic psychiatry principles to support whole-person healing. He is the author of Healing Trauma at the Cellular Level and is known for translating complex mental health concepts into clear, practical strategies. His work focuses on PTSD, complex and developmental trauma, relapse prevention, and residential mental health treatment.

Telos is a relationship-based treatment center for teens and young adults ages 13–26, specializing in depression, anxiety, social challenges, executive function needs, and learning differences. Its approach combines proven clinical therapies with a strong emphasis on healing relationships to support meaningful, lasting change. Telos offers a continuum of care through programs including Telos Academy, Telos U, Carter House, and Geneva, each designed to support students at different stages of development and independence. Known for its “arm around the shoulder” culture, Telos provides an environment where students find clarity, healing, and direction as they work toward more productive, principle-based lives. Telos’ mission is to create inspiring interpersonal relationships that invite and support all people in moving toward their ultimate potential.

Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge is a Children’s Mental Health Expert, Licensed Therapist, and Author. With more than three decades of experience, Dr. Roseann has helped thousands of children, teens, and families struggling with ADHD, autism, concussion, dyslexia and learning disabilities, anxiety, OCD, depression, mood disorders, Lyme Disease, and PANS/PANDAS. Her work focuses on science-backed natural mental health solutions including supplements, magnesium, nutrition, QEEG brain mapping, neurofeedback, PEMF, psychotherapy, and other non-medication approaches that calm and reset the brain. Dr. Roseann is the creator of Regulation First Parenting™ and the CALMS™ Dysregulation Protocol, two pioneering frameworks that teach parents how to regulate the nervous system first—because no learning, focus, or healing can happen without a calm brain. She is the bestselling author of It’s Gonna Be OK!: Proven Ways to Improve Your Child's Mental Health, The Teletherapy Toolkit, and Brain Under Attack, and is known for offering a message of hope through science-endorsed methods that promote emotional regulation and resilience. Dr. Roseann is the Founder and Director of The Global Institute of Children’s Mental Health and Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge, LLC. She is a Board Certified Neurofeedback (BCN) Practitioner, serves on the Board of the Northeast Region Biofeedback Society (NRBS), and is a Certified Integrative Mental Health Professional (CIMHP) and Amen Clinic Certified Brain Health Coach. She is also a proud member of The International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS), The American Psychological Association (APA), The Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA), The National Association of School Psychologists (NASP), and the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF). www.drroseann.com www.drroseann.com/media

Experienced Academic Coordinator with a demonstrated history of working in the education management industry. Skilled in Coaching, Clinical Supervision, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, and Training. Strong education professional graduated from Bayside High School.

Dr Anna Batho is an experienced Clinical Psychologist (DClinPsy) with over a decade of practice across the NHS and private sector. Trained in EMDR, CBT, and ADHD assessment, she has extensive expertise in health psychology, chronic pain, end-of-life care, and trauma. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, she played a key role in supporting frontline critical care staff and patients, providing psychological care under unprecedented pressure. She currently works at Homerton Hospital in London and has previously held posts at The Royal London Hospital and UCLH, alongside running a successful private practice for over ten years. Her academic work includes peer-reviewed publications in leading journals on chronic pain, mindfulness, and end-of-life care. Dr Batho is frequently sought out by the media and has been featured in The Independent, Financial Times, and The Telegraph for her clinical insights. She has a special interest in loneliness and belonging and is currently researching a book exploring these themes in modern life.

I’m a serious yet lighthearted board-certified psychiatrist in private practice for the past 30 years. I’m also a career-long educator/supervisor for psychiatry residents and other mental health professionals. I do public outreach as well. My blog about psychiatry and psychotherapy began in 2008. I launched a YouTube channel on "psychotherapy and psychologically-informed psychiatry" in spring 2024, and continue to post a video every two weeks. My office practice is mainly psychodynamic psychotherapy. I aim to be down to earth and non-mysterious about it — more like a conversation, less like a "blank slate." Naturally, I include other approaches when appropriate, including psychiatric medication. But my main interest is psychotherapy: both in my practice, and in public discussions of how "therapy" has been reduced in the public's mind to "tips, tools, and strategies," not its original higher aim of insight about oneself. In the distant past I published psychotherapy research; you can look me up on PubMed or ResearchGate. I served as medical director of a mental health clinic for 10 years, chaired the Continuing Medical Education (CME) Committee of a major medical center for over a decade, and served on their Ethics Committee. I’ve been a psychiatric consultant to the State Bar of California, and an expert witness once or twice. I present “grand rounds” lectures to hospital departments, and I welcome opportunities to be a public speaker. Aside from clinical interests, I’m a lifelong techie. I've discussed the role, good and bad, of AI in mental health. And I hold a 2nd degree black belt in Aikido, a uniquely pacifist martial art. I'm slowly writing a book, kind of a memoir, on the parallels between depth psychotherapy and Aikido. Thanks for reading.