Dr. Vicky Mesrie

I am a licensed clinical psychologist, supervisor, and leadership and organizational consultant with a practice in New York City. I work with individuals, couples, clinicians, and leaders and organizations to help them implement deep, meaningful, and lasting change.

In my clinical practice, I specialize in psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, which means that I privilege unconscious aspects of your experience in helping you to better understand yourself. People often seek me out for help addressing dissatisfaction, depression, anxiety, difficulty trusting others, trauma, abuse, shame and guilt, perfectionism, imposter syndrome, and/or obsessions and compulsions, among other difficulties. My approach is most helpful to those who want to develop a deeper understanding of themselves and their struggles, and who also sense that their difficulties likely have a deeper meaning.

In addition to my clinical work, I teach and supervise therapists and therapists-in-training. I offer clinical supervision and consultation to assist clinicians in deepening their understanding and applications of psychodynamic theory to their clinical work. I consider the supervisory relationship to be of utmost importance to a clinician’s development, and my research has focused on the applications of attachment and psychodynamic theories to the supervisory relationship. Previously, I held an appointment at New York University’s Department of Applied Psychology where I taught individual psychotherapy and group dynamics to graduate-level clinicians-in-training.

In my consulting work with leaders and organizations, I help individuals, leaders, teams, and organizations to understand and manage group dynamics. I work at the underbelly of team building, which means that I help people work through unconscious and conscious dynamics that get in the way of working collaboratively and effectively. I am aware that many people are struggling to survive in dysfunctional groups and organizations, and I am confident that working at this deeper unconscious level can help. I believe strongly that psychoanalysis can address systemic issues and dynamics that are reverberating at all levels of society. As such, I use a psychoanalytically-informed approach to help leaders, groups, and organizations in the broader community to develop increased self-awareness, collaboration and resilience, and adaptive performance.

I value continuing education to provide the highest quality services. In that vein, I am currently a candidate at New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.