Meet Sydney Shope
Sydney is a Columbia University trained, board certified Doctor of Nursing Practice and Assistant Professor at Columbia University.
She has particular expertise treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), depression, and anxiety in children, adolescents, and adults. She uses psychotherapy, medication, or a combination of both in treating her patients.
Sydney received her Bachelors of Science in nursing, Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner degree, and Doctorate of Nursing Practice degree from Columbia University School of Nursing. She is board certified as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner through the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and is a licensed psychopharmacologist.
Sydney researched eating disorders, body image dysmorphia, and steroid usage at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and worked as an inpatient psychiatric registered nurse at Mount Sinai West. She currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at New York University and as an Assistant Professor at Columbia University, where she teaches Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner students and is a portfolio advisor for Doctorate of Nursing Practice students.
Sydney is a member of the American Nurses Association, American Association of Nurse Practitioners, and the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing.
Meet Samantha Levy
Sam provides trauma-informed and person-centered psychiatric treatment to clients across the lifespan. She is grateful to help her patients improve their behavioral and emotional health and well-being through medication management, individual psychotherapy, or a combination of both.
Sam specializes in prenatal, perinatal, and postnatal women's mental health while also working with children, adolescents, and adults. She enjoys helping patients struggling with OCD, anxiety, depression, and ADHD, as well as helping people come off of medications as appropriate.
She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology from Hamilton College, her Master of Public Health degree from Yale University, and her Master of Science in nursing and Doctor of Nursing Practice degrees from Columbia University School of Nursing. Sam participated in a fellowship at Thundermist Medical Center in Rhode Island, with specialty training at the Women & Infants Hospital’s perinatal partial hospitalization program. She is board certified as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) through the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
She is a current member of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. She was awarded the Columbia University School of Nursing Mary Bleecker Simmons ’60 Award, which is presented to the graduate who demonstrates compassion and devotion to the mental health needs of patients. She is additionally affiliated with New York Presbyterian-Columbia spearheading a new women's mental health program specifically working to improve maternal mental health.