Clinical Director / Psychotherapist for Adults, Couples, Families, and Groups / Special Events Coordinator
Margaret Goldsmith, LMHC-D, is a fully licensed psychotherapist who serves as the Clinical Director of Gotham Psychotherapy. Margaret oversees the clinical team and provides individual, couples, family, and group psychotherapy.
As Clinical Director, Margaret provides leadership and supervision to the clinical team, fostering professional growth and supporting clinicians in delivering high quality care tailored to each patient’s needs and treatment goals. Additionally, she ensures consistency and quality across all patient services at Gotham Psychotherapy. Through her leadership, Margaret helps create an environment where patients receive compassionate, effective, and individualized care.
As a psychotherapist, Margaret works with a range of patients, including adults, couples, and families, with mild to severe clinical concerns. Through a person-centered and strengths-based approach, she integrates therapeutic techniques that support patients in making meaningful and actionable changes in their lives. Margaret draws from various therapeutic modalities, including Solution-Focused Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), to meet each patient’s unique needs. In addition, she has completed Level 1 Gottman Method training to support her work with couples. Her clinical focus includes working with individuals navigating depression, anxiety, OCD, grief, and life transitions. She also specializes in substance use, sex, and gambling addiction.
Margaret is a queer-aligned therapist and has extensive experience working with LGBTQIA+ communities in both group and individual settings. With a deep understanding of human behavior and relationships, she helps patients navigate life’s challenges and develop healthier ways of coping and relating to others. Her warm demeanor and collaborative style create a safe and supportive environment where patients can explore their thoughts, feelings, and experiences. Margaret holds a Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling from The City College of New York.
In addition to her areas of special focus, Margaret is qualified and experienced in treating a wide range of mental health concerns, including depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, panic disorder, OCD, PTSD, trauma, grief, burnout, couples and family issues, relationship difficulties, personality disorders, eating disorders, addictive disorders (including alcohol, drugs, sex, gambling, and food), ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, dissociative disorders, psychotic disorders, adjustment to chronic illness, sleep disorders, somatic conditions, work and career stress, identity and existential concerns, perfectionism, cultural and racial identity stress, and life transitions. Using an eclectic range of evidence-based approaches, she provides compassionate, individualized care tailored to every patient she serves.
In addition to her clinical work, Margaret serves as Special Events Coordinator at Gotham Psychotherapy, overseeing the planning and coordination of internal events that foster staff connection, collaboration, and a positive workplace culture.
