MusiCares provides a safety net of critical health and welfare services to the music community three key areas: mental health and addiction recovery, medical services, and human services supports and referrals

Music Health Alliance

Offers financial, medical, mental health, and other support to musicians in need

Music Industry Therapist Collective

UK-based organization that offers individual, couples and group psychotherapy from registered, insured and highly trained music industry clinicians. MITC consults for and delivers mental health seminars and workshops on a range of pertinent topics to music companies of all sizes

New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic

New Orleans, LA-based organization that provides comprehensive medical care and social services to local musicians, performing artists, cultural workers, and tradition bearers

Porter’s Call

Nashville, TN-based organization that helps touring and performing recording artists find counsel, support, and encouragement, specifically attuned to their unique profession

Send Me a Friend

Supports music industry professionals in recovery

SIMS Foundation

Austin, TX-based organization that provides mental health and substance use recovery services and supports for musicians, music industry professionals, and their dependent family members

Sounds of Saving

Their mission is to decrease suicide through education, resources, and access to treatment during crises, by focusing on a connection to music of all genres as a direct path to greater mental wellbeing and hopefulness

Sweet Relief

Provides financial assistance to all types of career musicians and music industry workers who are struggling to make ends meet while facing physical or mental health issues, disability, or age-related problems

Weill Cornell Center for the Performing Artist

Medical referral service for New York City based performing artists. They can help with issues such as vocal or musculoskeletal injuries, pulmonary conditions, or movement disorders

Arts and Mental Health Digital Communities

LooseLeaf Notebook

Interviews with artists about mental health and creativity, hosted by composer Julia Adolphe

Artists for Joy

Inviting artists into community to debunk the stereotype of the tortured artist, to unleash joy in the creation of art in all disciplines, and to consider creativity as a spiritual practice, hosted by musician Meredith Hite

Training Clinics

These are clinics that offer individual therapy, couples therapy, and/or groups with therapists in training. All offer sliding scale treatment (typically around $50 per session), and many accept commercial insurance or Medicaid. Due to high demand, many of these clinics have long waitlists. Some clinics allow patients to work with the same provider for years, others might require patients to transition between providers every year or two.

The American Institute for Psychoanalysis

Various locations in Manhattan and Brooklyn
Some clinicians accept insurance

Albert Ellis Institute

Midtown East, Manhattan

Blanton Peale Institute and Counseling Center

Midtown West, Manhattan
Accepts most insurances

Center for Counseling and Community Wellbeing, Steinhardt School at New York University

West Village, Manhattan

Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies

West Village, Manhattan

Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology Parnes Clinic

Morris Park, Bronx

Fordham Community Mental Health Clinic

Fordham Heights, Bronx

Gestalt Associates

Chelsea, Manhattan

The Harlem Family Institute

Harlem, Manhattan

Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP)

Lincoln Square, Manhattan
Accepts Emblem, Healthfirst, GHI, and Oscar insurance plans

Institute for Expressive Analysis

Various NYC locations

Institute for Human Identity (IHI)

Chelsea, Manhattan

Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) Clinical Center

Upper East Side, Manhattan
Accepts Beacon Health Options Commercial Non-HMO, GHI, HIP, New York State Empire Plan, and Emblem Health insurance plans.

Karen Horney Clinic

Upper East Side, Manhattan

Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis

Union Square, Manhattan

The McShane Center at Pace University

Financial District, Manhattan

New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

Upper East Side, Manhattan

National Institute of Psychotherapy (NIP)

Chelsea, Manhattan

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Study Center

Union Square, Manhattan
Accepts Aetna, NYU, and Marymount student plans

The Psychological Center at The City College of New York (CCNY)

West Harlem, Manhattan

The Safran Center for Psychological Services at The New School for Social Research

West Village, Manhattan

Teacher’s College Dean Hope Center

Morningside Heights, Manhattan

Theodor Reik Clinical Center

Greenwich Village, Manhattan

Training Institute for Mental Health

Midtown West, Manhattan

William Alanson White Institute

Upper West Side, Manhattan

Other Low-Fee Resources

Low Cost Therapy NYC

A very detailed list of resources for low cost therapy in New York City

New York Counseling and Clinical Social Work Service

Lincoln Square, Manhattan

NYC Affirmative Psychotherapy

Online only therapy with option for sliding scale treatment with particular expertise in issues pertaining to BIPOC and LGBT communities. Most providers are social workers (LCSW/LMSW). Also accepts Aetna and Wellfleet Student Insurance.

Open Path Collective

Online database of providers who offer affordable therapy ($30-60 per session). Therapists are mostly clinical social workers (LCSW / LMSW), or licensed professional counselors (LPC).

For Assistance Obtaining Insurance

Artists Health Insurance Resource Center
Heath Insurance Resources for Writers

For Assistance Using Insurance

Community Access to Addiction and Mental Healthcare Project (CHAMP)

CHAMP is the New York State independent health insurance ombudsman program for substance use disorder and mental health care. They educate and assist New Yorkers in accessing treatment and insurance coverage for substance use and mental health treatment.

Provider Organizations

Alma

Online platform for finding individual in-network providers including both medication management and therapy. Currently partnered with Aetna, United Healthcare, Oxford, Oscar, Optum and Harvard Pilgrim.

Brooklyn Psychotherapy

Counseling services in Brooklyn. Accepts many insurance plans. Most providers are social workers or mental health counselors.

The Fifth Avenue Counseling Center

Manhattan-based mental health services including therapy and medication management with social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists on staff. Accepts many insurance plans.

Headway

Online platform for finding individual in-network providers including both medication management and therapy. Currently partnered with Aetna, United Healthcare, Oxford, Oscar, and Cigna.

Hudson Minds

They treat treatment-resistant depression and other disorders with medical interventions, including TMS and Ketamine. In network with Aetna, Metroplus, Cigna, Healthfirst, and will work with some Blue Cross plans.

Inspire Mental Health Services

Medication management through insurance. Manhattan-based, in-person and telehealth treatment available. In network with Aetna, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Carelon, Cigna, Fidelis, Healthfirst (commercial plans only, not Medicaid) , Medicare, UMR, and United Healthcare.

Jewish Board

Comprehensive mental health services including therapy and medication management with multiple locations in NYC. They accept most commercial insurance plans, Medicaid, and Medicare.

Lavender Psychiatry

Medication management through insurance. Telehealth only. In network with Aetna, Blue Cross/Blue Shield (Anthem, Empire, Horizon, Regence) Cigna, Oscar, Oxford, and United Healthcare.

The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health

Manhattan-based mental health services including therapy and medication management with social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists on staff. Accepts many insurance plans.

Psychology Today

Online platform for finding individual providers including both medication management and therapy. Can search for providers accepting insurance.

Rappore

Appointments via telehealth only. In network with Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, and United Healthcare.

Reklame

Affordable mental health care and medication management for young adults and people of color. In network with Aetna, Cigna, Empire Blue Cross, Optum, United Healthcare, and United Healthcare/Oxford.

Resilience Lab

Counseling services with locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. Currently partnered with United, Optum Behavioral Health, Oscar, Oxford, UMR, Harvard Pilgrim, and Connecticare. Most providers are social workers.

SohoMD

Psychotherapy and medication management. Telehealth only. In network with Optum (Oscar, Oxford health Plans, United Healthcare, UMR), Aetna, Cigna, Humana, Meritain Health, and Wellfleet.

Talkiatry

Medication management through insurance. Telehealth only. Currently partnered with Aetna, United Healthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Humana, TriCare, Oscar, and Cigna.

Talking Works Counseling

Counseling services with locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. Accepts many insurance plans. Most providers are social workers or mental health counselors.