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 with addressing a general sense of dissatisfaction, depression, anxiety, difficulty trusting others, trauma, abuse, shame and guilt, perfectionism, imposter syndrome, and/or obsessions and compulsions. 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 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.