You are smart, capable, and outwardly successful. Yet inside you may feel anxious, stuck, or like an imposter. Even the most self-reliant people need a thoughtful, experienced guide to help make sense of their emotional world.
A senior Manhattan private practice offering individual, group, and couples psychotherapy. Over three decades of clinical experience and academic appointments at a leading medical institution.
“Just because it is hard to do, does not mean it is impossible to achieve.”
A Working Premise Since 1990
I work with college-aged young adults and high-functioning adults navigating anxiety, relationships, food noise or health concerns, and the pressure to have it all together. My work is well-suited for people who are curious about themselves and open to understanding the patterns shaping their lives.
With over three decades of clinical experience and academic appointments at leading medical institutions, I bring depth, discretion, and integrative care to help you build resilience and feel, at a lived internal level, that you are enough.
My intent is not to tell you what to do. It is to help you understand why you do what you do, so the choices you make are your own.
Drawn from three decades of work at the intersection of psychotherapy, medicine, and public health. Each area below links to a fuller discussion.
The psychological side of weight, appetite, and the new generation of metabolic medications.
Hover for detail →Working with what the body is saying and what the mind is negotiating. Trademarked B.I.T.E.® workshop available to existing patients by referral.
Inquire →Living with diabetes is not only a medical matter. It is a daily emotional negotiation with food, fatigue, fear, and identity.
Hover for detail →Integrative care for patients and their families. Work shaped by Fran's dual faculty appointment at Mount Sinai in Environmental Medicine and Public Health.
Inquire →Lawyers, physicians, founders, executives, and high-achievers whose careers often outrun their nervous systems.
Hover for detail →Sustainable performance begins with honest self-understanding. Work is discreet, paced, and designed to fit around demanding schedules.
Inquire →The patterns we repeat, the closeness we long for, and the distance we sometimes cannot quite name.
Hover for detail →Work that takes relationships seriously without rushing to resolve them. Individual, couples, and group settings available.
Inquire →Graduation, marriage, parenthood, illness, bereavement, retirement. Each transition asks something different of us.
Hover for detail →Each transition deserves a seasoned witness. Work is patient, unhurried, and does not ask you to name the change before you know what it is.
Inquire →Hormonal transitions, fertility, menopause, chronic illness, and the way physical health shows up in emotional life.
Hover for detail →Care that reads the body and the story together. Informed by faculty work at Mount Sinai and three decades of integrative practice.
Inquire →The private cost of public competence. Work for women holding careers, households, and families together.
Hover for detail →A quiet look at what, beneath all of it, you are holding yourself to. Work that honors the competence and makes room for the cost of it.
Inquire →“The areas above are where people most often find me. What matters more than the category is the conversation. If something you are carrying is not listed here, reach out anyway.”
Treatment is shaped to the person in front of me. Some work is best done one to one. Some asks for the presence of a group. Some requires the two people in a couple to learn, together, how to be heard.
Depth work for insight, emotional regulation, and sustained change. Sessions build a private space where the patterns beneath the patterns can be noticed, named, and, over time, revised.
A carefully curated setting to deepen self-understanding through real connection. Group offers what individual work cannot, the mirror of other human beings, received with honesty and care.
Work to help partners truly hear and respond to one another. Not a referee session, but a guided process of slowing down the conversation so that what matters can finally be said, and received.
Fran Weiss has been in private practice in Manhattan since 1990. Her work bridges the clinical depth of psychotherapy with the medical rigor of teaching hospital life. She holds dual faculty appointments at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health.
Her patients describe her as thoughtful, direct, and unhurried. Her students describe her as an educator who treats the theory of clinical work as inseparable from its human practice. She holds certifications that few private practitioners carry simultaneously, including Board Certified Diplomate status and Fellowship in the American Group Psychotherapy Association.
Her practice serves Manhattan, the five boroughs, New Jersey, Westchester County, and Connecticut. She is out-of-network, a choice that preserves the privacy and depth of the work.
A name for how I work. It treats the mind as a biological organ and a biographical archive at once. It draws on what neuroscience has confirmed about how human beings change, and on what thirty years in the consulting room has taught about how slowly, and how surely, they do.
The brain you bring into session is not a malfunctioning machine. It is a history. Our work together is to read it.
Inquire about the approach →A private practice built on formal training, continuous study, and institutional affiliation. The letters behind the name are not ornaments. They are the record of decades of supervised work.
Full academic profile available through Mount Sinai at profiles.icahn.mssm.edu/frances-weiss. Credentials, teaching record, and institutional affiliations are documented there in full.
Periodic workshops for patients, clinicians, and medical audiences. Offered on a limited basis and by referral. Inquire for current schedule and eligibility.
A proprietary framework for patients navigating food, weight, and body image. Draws on decades of clinical work with dysregulated eating, and more recently with patients on GLP-1 medications.
A workshop designed for high-functioning adults operating under chronic pressure. Tools for nervous-system regulation, sustainable performance, and the emotional literacy that keeps both intact.
A focused workshop for patients who have completed the acute phase of eating-disorder treatment and are asking what sustained recovery looks like, and what a life after the illness feels like from the inside.
The office is located on West 82nd Street between Amsterdam and Columbus. Patients travel from across the Upper West Side, the rest of Manhattan, the outer boroughs, New Jersey, Westchester, and Connecticut. Virtual sessions are available where clinically appropriate and within licensure.
We will begin with a consultation session to explore what is bringing you to therapy, and to collaborate on a treatment plan tailored to your unique needs and circumstances. The session is unhurried. It is also honest. You will leave it with a clearer sense of what, if anything, working together might look like.
This practice is out-of-network. That decision preserves the privacy and depth of the work. For patients for whom insurance reimbursement is relevant, I provide the documentation needed to pursue out-of-network benefits with your carrier.
“Reaching out does not commit you to therapy. It simply starts a conversation.”
The most useful first step is often the simplest one. A short note, a brief phone call, a question. From there we will decide, together, what the next conversation should look like.