Individual Therapy
The Work
Individual therapy with Dr. Herwitz is a place to do real work — the kind that produces lasting change in how you think, feel, and relate.
Her approach is direct, accountable, and grounded in two decades of practice and training in psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, schema, and trauma-focused therapies, as well as The Tools® — a methodology developed by Phil Stutz that places accountability and action at the center of change. She integrates these frameworks with precision.
Who Seeks Individual Therapy Here
Dr. Herwitz works with accomplished adults — leaders in business, law, finance, medicine, and the arts — who are navigating significant difficulty and want more than a sympathetic ear. Her clients are typically high-functioning people confronting something their external competence has not been able to solve.
They come for a range of reasons:
Anxiety in its many forms — persistent worry, difficulty switching off, and panic
Mood disorders, including depression, dysthymia, and bipolar disorder
Recurring relational patterns — with a partner, family members, or colleagues — that persist across contexts
Sexual concerns: desire discrepancy, difficulty relaxing into pleasure, out-of-control sexual behaviors, problems with orgasm or erection, and pain during sex
Major life transitions — work, divorce, marriage, empty nest, and loss
The private sense of living out of alignment with who one actually is
The Approach
Dr. Herwitz’s clinical foundation spans psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral frameworks, schema and trauma-focused therapies, and two decades of intensive study with Phil Stutz, co-creator of The Tools® — a methodology that places accountability and action at the center of therapeutic change. Her work reflects the conviction that insight without change is passivity, and change without insight is impulsivity. Both are required.
She asks pointed questions. She challenges the narratives her clients carry about themselves and about what is possible. She holds her clients to a high standard because the clinical evidence — and her experience — indicates they are capable of meeting it.
What to Expect
Dr. Herwitz’s practice is referral-based, drawing from physicians, attorneys, colleagues, and current and former clients. Direct inquiries are welcome.
Logistics Individual therapy with Dr. Herwitz is available in person at her office at 14 E. 75th Street, Suite 1A, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. Virtual sessions are available for clients in New York, California, Connecticut, Washington D.C., and Florida | By appointment only | contactdrherwitz@gmail.com
Frequently Asked Questions
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Yes. Many of Dr. Herwitz's clients are in therapy for the first time. They are accomplished people who have managed everything else on their own and have reached a point where that is no longer working. The practice is designed for people who are serious about change and ready to do the work — regardless of prior therapy experience.
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No. Dr. Herwitz is a clinical psychologist, not a psychiatrist, and does not prescribe medication. Where medication may be appropriate, she works collaboratively with psychiatrists and primary care physicians. The work in session is psychotherapeutic — focused on how you think, respond, and engage with your own experience.
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The Tools(r) is a methodology developed by therapist Barry Michels and psychiatrist Phil Stutz, with whom Dr. Herwitz has worked closely for more than twenty years. Tools are 15-20 second long mental processes that change one’s internal state immediately, allowing for new, more adaptive behaviors to emerge. The core idea is that insight alone is not enough to produce change — that genuine psychological progress requires specific, repeated actions taken in real life, not just understanding reached in a therapy office. Dr. Herwitz integrates this framework throughout her work because she believes it accelerates and deepens the results of therapy in a way that insight alone does not.
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Yes. Anxiety—including generalized, panic, phobias and PTSD—and mood disorders — including depression, cyclothymia, dysthymia, and bipolar I & II — are among the most common reasons clients come to Dr. Herwitz. Her approach addresses both the presenting symptoms and the underlying patterns that maintain them. She draws on psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, family systems and schema frameworks, integrating them with The Tools(r) methodology for a treatment that is both analytically grounded and action-oriented.