Our Team

• Robin Steiner Wallace, MSW, LCSW-R

Robin Wallace, the founder and executive director of Main Street Family Psychotherapy, is a licensed clinical social worker with "R" status psychotherapy practice privilege.

She earned her master's degree in social work at Fordham University, where she concentrated in family therapy. Ms. Wallace also completed post-graduate certificate training in adult psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, where she is currently pursuing further certificate training in child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

Ms. Wallace maintains a private practice in Nyack, specializing in the treatment of anxiety, depression, self-injurious behavior, and eating disorders, where she sees adolescents, adults, children, couples, and families. With extensive individual and group clinical experience, she emphasizes psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and supportive psychotherapeutic treatment.

Prior to establishing a private practice, Robin Wallace was a staff psychotherapist on the personality disorders unit at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Westchester Division. She maintains a continuing affiliation with New York Presbyterian — Weill-Cornell Medical College, serving as a research assistant on an ongoing "adolescent identity treatment" research study.

• Lara Fastman, LCSW, CASAC, CPC

Lara Fastman emphasizes research-based psychotherapies in her Rockland and Westchester private practice. She also has extensive experience with group psychotherapy.

Also certified in professional coaching, Lara is especially skilled in motivational interviewing techniques that help her clients to achieve greater self-awareness, confidence, creativity, and growth — both personally and professionally.

Ms. Fastman earned her Masters of Social Work at New York University in 1997, received post-graduate training in psychoanalysis at the Westchester Center for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, and is a duly Credentialed Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC) in New York.

• Iris Epstein, RD, CDN

Iris Epstein is a registered dietician who has been specializing in eating disorders and body image issues for a decade. Recently she has been given the opportunity to educate teens and their parents at Main Street Family Psychotherapy to better their relationship with their food choices and eating disorders.

Ms. Epstein earned her Bachelors of Science at the University of Maryland where she studied food and nutrition and completed her post-graduate training at The Cornell Medical Center in New York City. She has four main specialties that she continues to pursue education in: eating disorder, diabetes, heart disease, gastrointestinal issues and is currently becoming a licensed, certified diabetes educator.

Iris Epstein is the founder of the Nutrition Improvement Center in Pomona, NY where she maintains a private practice. She also works part-time at Refuah Health Center in Spring Valley, NY where she has been counseling members of the Orthodox and Hasidic community for the past 6 years.

Prior to working in the private sector, Ms. Epstein was an assistant chief clinical dietician at Knightsbridge Heights Rehabilitation Center and Cabrini Nursing Home as well as a staff dietician at the Hebrew Home for the Aged in Riverdale, NY. She has been the consulting dietician for three recipe books printed by Quintet Publishing, London, England.

• Tracy Singer, ISSA, Personal Fitness Counselor

Tracy literally danced her way into the fitness field from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she majored in dance (B.F.A.).

She has combined her dance and related theater background with personal-trainer credentials (ISSA), specializing in physical health and wellness education.

"There are so many different ways to stay fit and active. The key to any fitness program, though, is consistency. Life's too short to keep doing something you hate just because it's supposed to be 'good for you'. If you have to do something because it's an obligation that causes stress, it reduces your health benefits, and makes it less likely you'll stick with it. We like to do things that bring us pleasure, so a fitness agenda that is FUN is ultimately important. I like helping people discover what motivates them to choose a long-term, healthy lifestyle and to help them find the belief system that rewards healthy behavior as opposed to punishing self-destructive choices."

In addition to her personalized fitness training work, Tracy leads group programs and workshops at Main Street on female body-image issues, mentoring women and adolescents towards a healthy mind-set about their bodies, what they are in reality, not on the cover of a magazine, and how to care for the body to enjoy a lifetime of health and fitness.

• Emily J. Wallace, SWI

Emily J. Wallace, Social Work Intern is responsible for marketing and client outreach at Main Street.

Ms. Wallace is a Masters degree candidate in the Silver School of Social work at New York University. Emily most recently interned at the New York State Psychiatric Institute in the Children's Day Unit with adolescents.

She earned her undergraduate degree in psychology at Northeastern University.