Naomi Arbit, LCSW, PhD(She/Her/Hers)

Dr. Naomi Arbit integrates her training as a psychotherapist, behavioral scientist, mindfulness teacher, and coach to help clients access inner resources, navigate challenges, and create meaningful, lasting change. She offers teletherapy and telecoaching to clients in New York and specializes in anxiety, disordered eating and body image concerns, weight management, perfectionism, life transitions, career and academic stress, relationships, and identity development.

Dr. Arbit works with adolescents and adults across the lifespan. She helps clients build skills to regulate emotions and navigate challenges using evidence-based approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), and mindfulness practices.

Her approach integrates scientific rigor with warmth, curiosity, and deep attunement. She emphasizes self-compassion and draws thoughtfully on Buddhist philosophy, supporting clients in developing greater insight alongside practical skills for change. Through this work, clients build resilience, improve functioning and health, and shift patterns related to perfectionism, relationships, and addictive behaviors, including substance use and overeating.

Dr. Arbit holds advanced degrees from NYU, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University, where she earned her PhD in Behavioral Nutrition. Her research has focused on eating behavior, and she is trained in Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC), Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention (MBRP), and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).