Staff

Background

I began my career working as a full-time school psychologist, where I still serve students with emotional disabilities in a self-contained educational setting outside of New York City. This experience has allowed me to work closely with students and families navigating anxiety, emotional dysregulation, trauma, and transitional challenges.

Within this highly structured environment, I’ve developed a deep understanding of how school, family dynamics, and personal development intersect. My work often involves coordinating with educators, specialists, and family members to support long-term emotional and academic success.

Outside of the school setting, my private practice offers a more expansive opportunity to support clients of all ages. When working with adults, I take an interactive and relational approach, considering their roles within their families, careers, and communities, and helping them move toward clarity and healing.

To help meet the growing demand for mental health care, I’ve expanded Psychological Services of New York, P.C. to include a team of trusted practitioners. I personally oversee each clinician to ensure that every client receives the same level of care, professionalism, and sensitivity that clients have come to expect from my practice.

Cindy Serrano Wolfe is a Clinical Mental Health Counseling Intern at Psychological Services of New York, P.C. She brings a compassionate, collaborative, and client-centered approach to therapy. After a successful 15-year career in New York City's finance industry, Cindy transitioned to mental health counseling to help others on a deeper level. She earned her B.S. in Psychology from Penn State University and is now in the final year of the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Master's Program at Sacred Heart University.

Cindy combines her corporate background with her dedication to client care, creating a supportive therapeutic space where individuals feel heard and understood. Fluent in both English and Spanish, she has worked with children, adolescents, and adults across private practice, community-based, and advocacy settings in New York and California. Her work includes supporting clients managing anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, grief, and life transitions, as well as facilitating group therapy for adolescents, assisting children in the foster care system, and helping adolescents with autism develop emotional regulation and social skills.

Dr. Estela Garcia earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Walden University and brings a wealth of experience and compassion to her practice under the supervision of Dr. Joseph Yanni. Her professional journey began in educational settings, where she served as a special education teacher, gaining expertise in supporting children on the autism spectrum and managing challenging behaviors.

Dr. Garcia has further refined her clinical skills through over two thousand hours of training in both inpatient and outpatient hospital clinics, specializing in work with children and adolescents. She is deeply committed to helping young people and their families navigate social and emotional challenges, prioritizing the development of strong, trusting therapeutic relationships.

Her approach to therapy is collaborative and client-centered. Dr. Garcia works closely with clients to define their concerns, explore the root causes of stress, and identify contributing factors to their well-being. She employs an integrative, evidence-based framework, drawing on psychodynamic therapy, behavior management through ABA techniques, consultations, and other specialized interventions tailored to individual needs.