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37-32 61st Street, Woodside, NY 11377
Sessions
For teenagers of 13 to 17, and the adults who look after them.
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Therapy for teenagers is for young people of 13 to 17. A parent or guardian usually calls first: a teenager who has gone quiet or angry, school that has become too much, friendships that came apart, pressure from home or from two cultures at once.
Some teenagers want to come, and some are brought. Either way, the first session is spent on what the teenager wants from it, and nobody is asked to say more than they want to.
Teenagers, with a parent's consent. We see teenagers aged 13 to 17. A parent or legal guardian books the first session and consents to treatment, and usually joins part of it. What a teenager says in therapy stays private, with a few exceptions we explain to the family at the start, such as a risk of serious harm.
If you're a teenager reading this. A teenager can't book here on their own: in a private practice like this one, New York needs a parent's or guardian's consent for treatment. If you're a teenager and you need to talk to someone now, call or text 988 — it's free, it's confidential, and you don't need anybody's permission — or talk to your school counselor.
Fifty minutes, usually weekly.
Maricel meets a parent or guardian at the start, explains together with the teenager what stays private and what can't, and sees the family together when it helps.
After that, most sessions are the teenager's own. Practical things are on the table: skills for strong feelings, school stress, friendships. What a teenager says is private, with the exceptions explained at the start.
That balance, and what a parent can and can't expect to hear, is set out in a short article, "What parents hear from a teenager's therapist", and on the page about consent.
Fifty minutes, usually weekly at the same time to start; some people move to every other week later.
Each clinician's day is an office day or a video day.
Each clinician's day is either an office day, when every session is in person here, or a video day, when every session is by video. Choose in person or video and the calendar shows you the times that fit.
In the office on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday; by video on Wednesday.
Offered by Maricel Dizon.
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Teenagers of 13 to 17 and their families: school stress, low mood, friendships, and the pressure on first-generation kids. In English and Tagalog.
English and Tagalog · teen, family and individual
Sessions in English, Spanish, Tagalog, Bengali and Mandarin. For Nepali, Tibetan, Korean, Thai or another language, we'll help you find a clinician who works in it.
One fee for this kind of session, the same with every clinician.
A superbill for this kind of session carries the procedure code 90834: psychotherapy, about 45 minutes (38 to 52).
Every session booked here comes with a written Good Faith Estimate in the confirmation: the fee for each session and what twelve weekly sessions would come to. The law gives a practice one to three business days to send one (45 CFR 149.610); this one sends it with the confirmation.
Out of network. We don't participate in any health insurance networks. If your plan has out-of-network mental health benefits, we can give you a monthly statement (a "superbill") to send in. Whether and how much your plan reimburses is between you and your plan; ask them before you start. If you're using out-of-network benefits, the amount we'll charge is available on request before your first session, and we'll give it to you in writing (Public Health Law § 24).
If the fee is a barrier. A limited number of reduced-fee places are available by arrangement. Ask on your free call; nobody is asked to prove anything to request one.
All the fees and how insurance works The Good Faith Estimate
A parent or guardian books the first session.
Nothing clinical online. This form asks only for what an appointment needs: your name, how to reach you, who you'd like to see, what kind of session and when. It never asks why you're coming — that conversation is for your clinician, not for a website — and nothing you type here is shared with an advertiser, a tracker or anyone outside the practice.
Book a free fifteen-minute call to see whether we're a good fit. It's a conversation about what you're looking for and how we work, by telephone or video — not a therapy session, and there is nothing to pay for it.
Every session booked here comes with a written Good Faith Estimate in the confirmation: the fee for each session and what twelve weekly sessions would come to. The law gives a practice one to three business days to send one (45 CFR 149.610); this one sends it with the confirmation.
Every session booked here comes with a written Good Faith Estimate in the confirmation: the fee for each session and what twelve weekly sessions would come to. The law gives a practice one to three business days to send one (45 CFR 149.610); this one sends it with the confirmation.
Woodside Psychotherapy is not an emergency service. Nobody watches the website, the voicemail or the e-mail inbox outside office hours, and a message left at night is read the next working day.
If you're in danger right now, call 911. For a mental health crisis, call or text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org, 24 hours a day; veterans can call 988 and press 1. You can also text HOME to 741741. Our phone and messages are not monitored outside office hours, and this website is not an emergency service.
The areas the clinicians who offer this work with.
Support for
For living between two cultures, two languages, or two sets of expectations.
If you need help now. If you're in danger right now, call 911. For a mental health crisis, call or text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org, 24 hours a day; veterans can call 988 and press 1. You can also text HOME to 741741. Our phone and messages are not monitored outside office hours, and this website is not an emergency service.
Book a free fifteen-minute call, or go straight to a first session if you know what you want. Nothing is paid online, and nothing on the form asks why you're coming.
