Dr. Mittsi Crossman is the President of iaedp NY.  Dr. Crossman is a double Board Certified General and Addiction Psychiatrist & is a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist (CEDS) with a private practice in New York City treating adults.  She specializes in comprehensive assessment and compassionate and integrated care of mental health problems, with expertise in addictive, personality, and eating disorders.  To address the complexities of such disorders, usually involving biological, social, and learned factors, Dr. Crossman offers a variety of therapeutic modalities that include state of the art pharmacological management, individual psychotherapy (talk therapy), and supportive interventions to the patient and their families.

Dr. Crossman attended college at Yale and earned a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Psychology. During her undergraduate education, she became interested in psychiatry while working with research teams at the Yale Child Study Center and Yale Conduct Clinic. She attended medical school in her home state at the University of South Florida College of Medicine.  She came to Bellevue Hospital in New York City and complete a residency in Adult Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine, as well as a fellowship in Addiction Psychiatry. After completing the fellowship in Addiction Psychiatry, she worked as Unit Chief of the Dual Diagnosis Inpatient Unit in Bellevue Hospital.  She has interests in trauma, addictions, eating disorders, and personality disorders and has been intensively trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Dr. Crossman is a licensed prescriber of buprenorphine, and has additional interests in reproductive psychiatry and women’s health issues.