Who We Are
PSNYC is a therapy practice based in Greenwich Village, New York City.
PSNYC was founded by Golzar Selbe Naghshineh, LP, a New York and New Jersey State licensed Psychoanalyst, certified group psychoanalyst, teaching faculty at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies and the New York Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, and a reproductive and perinatal mental health specialist.
Naghshineh built NAPS an integrative mental health program for OBGYN offices and fertility clinics in 2014. She has been successfully running the program at Downtown Women OBGYN since its development.
Naghshineh attended the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis for her doctorate in Psychoanalysis (ABD) with her doctoral dissertation focusing on working with perinatal women in a group therapy setting within their obstetrics practice. She also completed her group psychotherapy training at the Center for Group Studies and holds a Masters in Nonprofit Management and Urban Policy from The New School University. Naghshineh is a former DONA trained birth and postpartum doula.
She began developing NAPS in response to her work as a birth and postpartum doula. Her experience with women prenatal and postpartum and her deep understanding of their needs lent her to recognize the necessity in building an OBGYN in-house intervention system. To meet patient needs, she built a platform that troubleshoots common prenatal and postpartum concerns, while also offering effective mental health care and intervention.
She also built PSNYC to train and supervise other psychoanalysts in her psychoanalytic perinatal approach in both groups and individual sessions. She has previously worked with patients at a state mental health facility in Bronx, NY.
Associate:
Amanda Kadaj completed her Certificate in Psychoanalysis from the Center of Modern Psychoanalytic Studies and her Masters in Psychoanalysis from the New York Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. Kadaj previously worked in the nonprofit sector with veterans, children, and families. Kadaj began practicing psychoanalysis, under supervision, at the Consultation and Referral Service at CMPS as part of her psychoanalytic training in 2016. Throughout her time at CMPS, Kadaj realized that one of the downsides to having a private practice is that it lacks the peer-to-peer connection that a community provides. Kadaj developed a special interest in Golzar Naghshineh’s unique psychoanalytic approach to working with infertility and perinatal patients and began training with Naghshineh in her methodology in February 2022. Kadaj has provided psychoanalytically oriented therapeutic services to people for a wide range of life challenges including relationships, job stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, serious illness, pregnancy and postpartum, reproductive issues, and life transitions for adults, adolescents, and couples working toward wellness. Kadaj is currently attending the Center for Group Studies for group psychotherapy training.
Administrator:
Parry Thompson obtained her B.A. from New York University in psychology with a minor in child and adolescent mental studies. Parry has dedicated her professional life to supporting mothers as a care coordinator, labor and postpartum doula and support group leader with a specialty in patient and practice management. Her interest in the life cycle extends to hospice and palliative care where she works as an end-of-life doula. Over the years, Parry has come to see the unique power of the group therapy setting in supporting the complex feelings of patients by drawing on the power of connection and community.