Dr. Aniella Perold is a clinical psychologist who harnesses her range of experiences supporting and understanding the difficulties of adults, children, families, and couples to help create meaningful change.

Dr. Perold earned her doctorate in clinical psychology at The New School for Social Research, where her research focused on parents and children and the impact of early attachment relationships on the development of self and body image. She has years of experience providing psychotherapy and diagnostic services in a range of hospital and clinic settings, including Mount Sinai Beth Israel and NYU. She completed her predoctoral internships at The National Institute for the Psychotherapies, where she provided psychodynamic treatment to adults seeking help with complex and acute trauma, issues around identity (in terms of culture, race, sexuality, and gender), anxiety, depression, and relationship difficulties. In her work with adults, Dr. Perold helps explore and address patterns that impact the person’s ability to sense and get what they need out of their relationships, work, and creative life.

Dr. Perold has worked for many years supporting neurodivergent children and young adults academically as an in-home executive functioning coach. She also conducted research embedded in a New York City public school, focused on patterns in children’s relationships with their caretakers, peers and teachers. Thanks to these experiences, Dr. Perold possesses a unique, on-the-ground understanding of how family relationships, learning and school experiences, and children’s emotional/behavioral problems intersect. She brings this understanding to her therapeutic work with families and children, where her approach is warm, playful, steady, and pragmatic. Dr. Perold works to contain and make comprehensible the intense feelings and challenging behaviors that can compromise family connection.