Simone LaVerne

Simone is a Licensed Psychoanalyst in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan who specializes in working with life transitions, trauma, and anxiety. She values the creativity in her clients, whether it's expressed in a chosen profession in the arts, or in more subtle ways of expressing oneself within relationships. She sees creativity as energy for healing and moving forward.

Simone welcomes into the room her client's lived experience. Many of her clients are navigating life transitions centered around changes in their relationships, their gender identity or sexual orientation, or some other aspect of growth and identity. Simone also works with survivors of trauma. With extensive training in Gestalt therapy, she helps her clients integrate the many different facets of their experiences and identities into a clearer sense of who they are, where life has taken them, and who they want to be.

Simone has an intuitive and flexible style. She is easy to talk to, especially when sharing difficult or personal material. Outside of private practice, she was the 2021 Clinical Director at Identity House, a peer counseling organization that works within the LGBTQIA community. She previously worked as a clinical therapist at Gestalt Associates low-fee Clinic and completed an internship at Streetwork Safe Horizon, working with adolescents, many of them LGTBQIA. She received her LP at Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy, and her MA in Psychology from The New School. Her office is located near the 1 train at 23rd street and 7th ave. The F, M, A, C, and E trains are all a block away. Simone asks that clients come in person whenever they can, but is open to doing virtual sessions for those who have health issues, live far away, or have some other reason they can't come in.