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These practitioners provide in-person care at Held Space and run their businesses independently. Please inquire directly with them for more information.
Laura Temple
Holistic Psychiatry
Laura is an ANCC board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) and the founder of Held Space. She provides mindful therapy and prescribes medication for the treatment of a wide range of mental health disorders, including anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder and PTSD.
Laura specializes in providing trauma-informed care and working with people who have experienced sexual assault.
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Alessandra Fabris-Tantawi
Couples & Sex Therapy
Alessandra Fabris-Tantawi LCSW, M.Ed, RYT (she/her) is a licensed clinical social worker, holistic psychotherapist, integrative trauma specialist, sex therapist, educator and yoga teacher. Alessandra supports predominately BIPOC and LGBTQ+ couples, women, individuals and families to navigate life with more ease and consciousness. Alessandra encourages people to unlearn binary thinking, linear cultural narratives, and ascribed societal labels that hinder happiness and a sense of social connection.
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Lexie Thrash
Somatic Psychotherapist
Lexie Thrash, MS, LCAT, R-DMT (she/her) a compassionate, holistic, person-centered, and somatically-oriented psychotherapist, artist, and yoga teacher. Unequivocally LGBTQIA+-affirming and intersectional, Lexie works with individuals, couples, and families with concerns including: family issues/relationship concerns, navigating poly and open relationships, complex trauma, anxiety, and depression. In tandem with talk therapy and evidence-based practices, authentic movement, breath work, mindfulness, meditation, and/or art making may also be integrated into work together. Bridging her knowledge of somatics through a lifetime of study in dance and performance, she seeks to support clients on their unique paths toward integration of mind, body, and spirit.
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Lea Torelli
Chiropractor
Dr. Lea Torelli, DC. provides chiropractic care for those seeking greater balance, resilience, and ease in their lives. With a background as a professional dancer and Pilates instructor, she understands the dedication and physical demands of a thriving creative career. Having experienced performance-related injuries herself, Lea knows how deeply physical health impacts creativity, productivity, and well-being. She is honored to serve the Held Space community with a mission focused on helping clients optimize performance and vitality so they can move through life with focus and flow.
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Allyssa Rivera
Licensed Creative Arts Therapist
Allyssa Rivera is a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist and Board-Certified Dance/Movement Therapist who centers the Body as a site for exploration, understanding, and liberation for herself and the folx she works with. Allyssa integrates trauma-informed somatics, embodied storytelling, and talk therapy frameworks such as Parts Work, DBT, ACT, relational-cultural theory and is committed to decolonizing therapy and being a real human with her clients. Allyssa provides a warm, embodied approach, inviting adults and adolescents to creatively explore their strengths and needs and address relationships, identity, self-esteem, anxiety, depression, substance use, and life transitions. She collaborates with clients to develop an environment that fosters curiosity, growth, and radical acceptance of all parts of the Self.
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Adrienne Figueiredo
Licensed creative Arts Therapist
Adrienne Figueiredo (she/her), MA, LCAT, ATR is a clinically oriented art therapist who provides a warm, compassionate and collaborative approach to therapy. She incorporates DBT, CBT and existential therapy techniques into her work, and provides therapy that is tailored to the individual and open to evolution throughout the process. Having been an artist herself, Adrienne specializes in providing care to creative professionals, women, and the LGBTQIA+ and other underserved communities, and her work is informed by the strong belief that before addressing individual mental health needs it is important to first acknowledge and process the broader cultural structures that are often the initial cause of harm.
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Ashley Guttuso
Licensed Aesthetician
Licensed since 2019, Ashley brings a foundation in organic skincare, intuitive touch, and whole-body wellness. Her work is supported by advanced training in Gua Sha Facial Fusion with Cecily Braden and the Vodder Method of Manual Lymphatic Drainage with Anne Bramham through ASTECC. Her experience spans fast-paced Upper West Side and West Village spas to the intimacy of a boutique facial studio. A firm believer in trusting the skin’s natural intelligence, Ashley pairs the highest-quality botanical skincare with clinical care for advanced, restorative results. With a focus on intentional, healing touch, her hands are her most essential tool—communicating calm, releasing tension, and inviting the nervous system back into balance.
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