Alana Mendelsohn, MD, PhD
Psychiatry
Empowering patients to be active and informed participants in
personalized, evidence-based treatment
Dr. Mendelsohn is a Columbia University trained psychiatrist licensed in New York and New Jersey. She works with adults in both medication management and psychotherapy, with a particular focus on mood and anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), attention deficit disorder (ADD/ADHD) and trauma related disorders.
Her practice strives to take a warm, collaborative and non-judgmental stance to create individualized treatment plans for each patient, incorporating medication and/or psychotherapy as appropriate. Her treatment approach draws from multiple perspectives in psychiatry, including psychodynamic therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, mindfulness and neuroscience, with a relational therapeutic style that is direct, transparent and empathic.
Prior to focusing on her primary passion, taking care of patients and expanding access to treatment, Dr. Mendelsohn spent twenty years engaged in neuroscience research in academia and biotech. Currently based in London, she sees patients and supervises trainees within the NHS. She also has a longstanding interest in the arts and co-founded a non-profit organization, Creatives Care, aimed at helping artists in New York find affordable mental health care.
