Black Woman Therapist in New York City
Dr. Dana E. Crawford, Licensed Clinical Psychologist
therapy meets cultural wisdom
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ABOUT
Dr. Dana E. Crawford
Dr. Dana E. Crawford is a licensed clinical psychologist and Black woman therapist based in New York City. She sees clients in person on Manhattan's Upper West Side, across from Central Park, and online throughout New York State.
For more than 23 years, Dr. Crawford has helped people — especially high-achieving Black women — move from survival mode into genuine wholeness. Her practice specializes in anxiety, racial trauma, grief, chronic pain, and the particular exhaustion of holding it all together in spaces that were not built for you. She integrates trauma-focused therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, mindfulness, somatic awareness, and medical hypnosis into care that is both clinically rigorous and deeply human.
Dr. Crawford is the author of Healing Bias(W.W. Norton, 2025) and the creator of R.A.C.E. Cards, and she developed the Crawford Bias Reduction Theory & Training (CBRT) — a framework she now teaches to hospitals, universities, and institutions across the country. Before entering private practice, she built and led one of the largest trauma-informed care programs in the nation at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, and completed her residency training at Columbia University. A former nurse, she holds degrees from Howard University, Temple University, and Miami University, with certifications in medical hypnosis and biofeedback.
She has treated patients in Philadelphia, Cincinnati, New Orleans, San Antonio, and the Bronx — but Harlem is home, and New York is where she practices.
If you've been searching for a therapist who can hold all of it — the clinical, the cultural, and the personal — you've found her.
Dr. Dana E. Crawford, PhD info@drdanacrawford.com | (347) 815 - 4569
Licensed Psychologist, New York State #020991 | NPI: 1932487527
W 86th St, Upper West Side, Manhattan
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Therapy
This is the heart of the practice. Individual psychotherapy for adults — in person on Manhattan's Upper West Side, across from Central Park, or online anywhere in New York State. I specialize in anxiety, trauma, and grief; impostor syndrome; medical hypnosis; and the tender, complicated work of parenting. My practice is centered on Black women and open to everyone committed to healing in an unjust world.
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Author
Dr. Crawford writes the tools she wishes every healing room had. Healing Bias (W.W. Norton, 2025) offers a clear, compassionate path through the bias we carry and the bias we've survived. R.A.C.E. Cards turn the conversations we avoid into the conversations that free us. Both are used in homes, classrooms, and institutions across the country.
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One Doctor, Two Doors
Dr. Dana E. Crawford — trauma, therapy & wellness. For press, podcasts, book conversations, and wellness partnerships, write me directly: info@DrDanaCrawford.com
Crawford Bias Reduction Theory & Training (CBRT) — bias, prejudice & racism. For keynotes, trainings, and organizational work: CBRT@CBRTforEveryone.com or visit our website.
Let’s Begin
The fastest path to working together is a 15-minute consultation — a brief, unhurried conversation to see if we fit. Request one below.
For interviews, media, book conversations, and wellness partnerships, write me directly: info@DrDanaCrawford.com. A note here lands on my desk, not in a queue.