Our Story

Dr. Michael Dulchin and Dr. Jonathan Fader met over 20 years ago while collaborating on patient care at Columbia University Medical Center. They recognized immediately that they shared a core belief: Successful therapy is based on genuine human connection, and requires openness, practicality, and a sense of humor.

Dr. Dulchin went on to run inpatient psychiatry at N.Y.U. and Dr. Fader became the team psychologist for the N.Y. Mets and the N.Y. Giants. In those roles, they both began to see that providing excellent mental health treatment requires not just supporting patients, but also the therapists who work with them.

What if together they could recruit talented practitioners across specialties – psychologists, psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, social workers and more to create a community structured so that these therapists could regularly share ideas and expertise?

In 2013, they co-founded Union Square Practice to do just that. Now, with over 60 clinicians, USP offers extraordinary patient care via the most robust, diverse and effective group of mental health experts under one roof anywhere in New York City.

Over the last decade, Mike and Jonathan have worked to translate their shared vision for better mental health care into the thriving and innovative practice USP has become.

When you come to USP, our experts can collaborate to help you with any issue you might be facing. Whether that is generalized anxiety disorder or treatment-resistant depression, ADHD or OCD, work stress, relationship or family issues, managing grief, or any other matter, we have a knowledgeable and experienced specialist who will be able to connect with you and help.

How have Jonathan and Mike managed to recruit, train and support so many talented therapists across specialties? By carefully choosing the best-trained, most thoughtful and compassionate professionals available, and by creating an environment in which they can grow.

USP offers therapists both the autonomy of a private practice – deciding for themselves how many patients to see, and how to serve them in an individualized manner – and the administrative support that allows them to spend their time on treatment, not on paperwork.

But the real secret? USP therapists are a team. They learn together, improve together, teach together, eat together and celebrate together. Not only does that translate into the best possible care for our clients, it ensures we stay current on the latest and best approaches in both psychotherapy and medication management.

The USP community of clinicians thrives so that you can too.