A practice built on being fully seen.

Dr. Lyssett Martínez (she/her) is a licensed clinical psychologist and the founder of City Mindful. Bilingual and bicultural, she earned her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from La Salle University in Philadelphia and brings extensive experience across both public and private mental health settings, having honed her clinical skills at renowned institutions such as the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, NYU School of Medicine-Langone Medical Center, Bellevue Hospital, and Lenox Hill Hospital-Northwell Health.

Dr. Martínez provides affirming clinical services with a culturally competent and personalized approach to address a range of psychiatric disorders across the lifespan. She is a certified gender specialist and a certified provider through the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), and her therapeutic approach blends psychodynamic and empirically supported treatments such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness, Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), and interpersonal work.

Her cultural humility and identity-affirming lens offer a client-focused approach that helps individuals realize their full potential and lead fulfilling lives while reaching their short- and long-term goals.

Today she serves as a Senior Clinical Psychologist at Lenox Hill Hospital, as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine, and as a Visiting Scholar at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she supervises psychological assessment for doctoral candidates.