Mental & Emotional Wellness
Compassionate therapeutic support for the mind and heart. Our Albany-based counselors and therapists hold space for emotional processing, nervous system care, and personal growth — offering a steady presence as you navigate life's transitions.
Kristin McFerran, LCSW
Licensed Social Worker
You don’t have to have it all together to start therapy. In fact, most of my clients come to me when they’re exhausted from pretending they do. They’re overwhelmed, anxious, replaying the same patterns, or trying to show up for everyone else while quietly running on empty themselves. If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone -- and you don’t have to figure it out alone either.
My mantra is simple: “Meet the client where they are.” Whether you’re struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship challenges, or simply feeling disconnected from yourself, our work together starts with compassion, curiosity, and honesty. I don’t believe in quick fixes or one-size-fits-all approaches. I believe in meeting you as a human being first -- building a space where you can breathe, unpack, and begin to heal at your own pace.
My approach combines the warmth of authentic connection with evidence-based practices proven to help you make real, lasting change. Using tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), trauma-informed care, motivational interviewing, and psychoeducation, we’ll explore not just what you’re feeling, but why -- so you can understand your emotions, patterns, and needs with clarity and self-compassion. Together, we’ll create practical strategies to manage stress, improve emotional regulation, strengthen boundaries, and build confidence in your daily life.
Clients often tell me that therapy with me feels like “a safe exhale.” My goal is to help you reconnect with your resilience -- that part of you that’s always been strong, even when life made you forget. Healing isn’t about fixing what’s broken; it’s about remembering what’s whole and giving yourself permission to feel better.
If you’re ready to stop surviving and start living with more ease, joy, and purpose -- I’d be honored to walk alongside you. Taking the first step toward therapy isn't a weakness. It’s courage in action.
Kristin is currently welcoming new clients and would be honored to walk alongside you on your healing journey. Take the first step -- call or email to schedule a session.
Laura M. Longo, Ph.D.
Licensed Psychologist
Laura offers a compassionate, non-judgmental space for individuals to explore their healing journey. Her approach is integrative, combining evidence-based therapies like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Short-Term Psychodynamic Therapy, tailored to each person’s unique needs. With a multicultural and social justice lens, she ensures therapy is inclusive and responsive to the diverse experiences clients bring.
Laura specializes in supporting individuals navigating complex trauma, anxiety, depression, and relationship challenges. She also provides dedicated support for those in recovery from substance use and addictive behaviors, including gambling and pornography, while offering guidance to family members and loved ones supporting someone through addiction recovery.
She deeply values authenticity and believes in honoring each individual’s path. Laura meets clients where they are, providing a space for exploration and growth at their own pace, with empathy, respect, and unwavering support.
Christina King, LCAT
Owner of CK Creative Wellness
Christina is a vibrant force in the mental health field, passionately weaving the Creative Arts into her work for over 20 years with both adolescents and adults in clinical and private settings. She wholeheartedly believes in the transformative power of art to heal -- an understanding born from her own experiences and echoed in the lives of countless individuals she’s guided through trauma, life transitions, and the pursuit of lasting mental well-being.
Christina’s expertise in Intermodal Art Therapy empowers her to blend fine art, music, movement, storytelling, and creative writing into deeply therapeutic journeys. Her qualifications extend to certifications in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Grief and Loss, Somatic Healing, and Kundalini Yoga, equipping her to meet the complexities of each person’s healing path with compassion and creativity.
Beyond her professional accomplishments, Christina’s life brims with creativity and joy. She is a devoted mother, a passionate artist, and an avid gardener who finds inspiration in the beauty of the natural world. Whether paddleboarding, painting in her studio, cooking from her garden, or exploring new techniques to better support her clients, Christina infuses passion into everything she does. Her zest for life and deep care for others shine through in her commitment to help people reconnect with their inner wisdom and thrive.
Lisa Ferretti, LMSW
Therapist
Lisa views therapy as a shared journey -- one grounded in honesty, respect, and a genuine commitment to each client’s growth. For over 20 years, she has supported adults and couples through seasons of change, uncertainty, healing, and hope. Whether clients are navigating life transitions, living with anxiety or depression, healing from trauma, grieving a loss, or seeking to strengthen their relationship, Lisa helps them reconnect with their resilience and sense of possibility.
Her work draws from evidence-based approaches including CBT, ACT, DBT, trauma-informed care, solution-focused therapy, and the Gottman Method. While these frameworks are important, her primary focus is helping clients recognize their inherent strengths -- what already exists within them and building from there.
Lisa’s goal is to offer a warm, safe, and non-judgmental space where clients can show up exactly as they are. Therapy moves at the client’s pace, honoring each individual’s story while supporting greater peace, connection, and overall well-being.
Emily Joseph, LCSW
Licensed Social Worker
Emily Joseph helps people transform their lives, empower themselves, and gain unstoppable confidence. She is a mother, former school social worker, reiki master, artist, and an empath who's been through her own transformative therapy journey. She utilizes years of experience both as a client and a clinician, to help others feel safe as they deepen their understanding of their own experiences. Emily worked in several agencies and schools before transitioning to private practice. Now, she has found her true calling in helping individuals transform and make big, powerful changes that align them with who they were always meant to be. She feels grateful everyday that she gets to witness her clients transform into grounded, unstoppable beings.
Emily's role as a holistic therapist is to accompany you while you go through difficult things so that you are not alone, and to provide insights so that you can feel more joy and freedom in your life. Through our work together, Emily provides a safe, welcoming space for you to gain perspective and discover what you're truly capable of. She helps you make decisions with trust and confidence, all while developing skills to feel better during more difficult moments. Emily specializes in processing anxiety and indecision surrounding big life shifts, specifically relationship and family challenges, career and schooling transitions, and the postpartum period and new parenthood. She meets you where you are first and supports you with what you need at this moment. Through learning from our past, processing our pain, and deepening our perspective, we can all heal and live the life of our dreams.
Andrea Horowitz, LMHC, GCT
Pegasus Mental Health Counseling, PLLC
Andrea Horowitz is a licensed mental health counselor and Gottman Certified Couples Therapist, specializing in helping couples reignite their spark and deepen their connection. She believes that strong relationships build strong families, and strong families create stronger communities, ultimately making the world a better place. Whether through one-on-one couples therapy, engaging workshops, or supporting first-time parents through the challenges of early family life, Andrea is dedicated to helping couples grow together. Her approach creates a safe, open space for rebuilding trust, improving communication, and rediscovering the love that brought partners together. Andrea’s work empowers couples to strengthen their relationship, knowing that when relationships thrive, everything around them does too.
Sara Cunningham, Ph.D.
Licensed Psychologist
As a counseling psychologist, I approach therapy through a strengths-based, culturally sensitive, and holistic lens. I completed my doctoral training at Fordham University in NYC and enjoy working with a variety of populations and concerns. I specialize in providing neurodivergent-affirming support to young adults/adults with ADHD, executive function concerns, and learning challenges. I also have expertise in supporting individuals through grief and bereavement.
I strive to provide a compassionate and non-judgmental space to help my clients navigate life's challenges. My approach is deeply rooted in person-centered care, ensuring you feel truly seen and heard in the therapeutic relationship. I integrate psychodynamic and insight-oriented perspectives to explore how past experiences shape current patterns and to facilitate understanding. Additionally, I draw from evidence-based approaches, such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), to help you build distress tolerance, emotional regulation skills, mindfulness, and to live a life aligned with your values. I am recently trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), which I offer for clients seeking to process and heal from traumatic or adverse experiences to reduce their negative impact on your life. I am working towards EMDRIA certification.
My goal as your therapist is to empower and support you to heal, grow, and create lasting change. I am not currently accepting new clients, but welcome you to reach out to learn more about my services and future availability.
Keren Stempsey, LCSW
Therapist, Owner of Journey's Rise Counseling, LCSW, PLLC
Do you feel caught in a loop, navigating relationship or connection difficulties, and feeling like you are in a "cloud"? You may feel stuck in unhealthy patterns that have been built up overtime as a way to protect yourself. In therapy, we will focus on identifying your strengths, grounding techniques, and enhancing your values to manage emotions and life stressors. We will focus on barriers that you may encounter that influence skill building or how skills are utilized and explore resolutions to those barriers. I emphasize the importance of progress check-ins throughout therapy to ensure goals are being met.
I want to help build or enhance emotional regulation skills and building effective communication skills to strengthen meaningful connections with self and others.
The goal is to help you feel more grounded, confident, supported and to build a life that reflects your values. We will focus on the strengths and values that you already have while looking at ways to enhance or redefine them to practice a well-balanced life.
Meet our other Space Holders
Behind every offering is a practitioner who leads with integrity, care, and deep respect for your journey.
Our facilitators, teachers, and collaborators bring a wide range of experience across healing, movement, and spiritual practice. Each one holds space in their own unique way, while sharing the same intention: to create an environment where you feel supported, seen, and safe to explore your healing.