Lieber Recovery Clinic

The Lieber Recovery Clinic provides personalized, comprehensive outpatient treatment to help people distressed by symptoms of a severe mental illness get back to work, school, and independent living.

Personalized Treatment

The Lieber Recovery program offers a combination of group and individual supports. Most of our programming occurs in person, at our 5 Columbus Circle office. A smaller number of groups and individual supports can be provided via telehealth. Our goal is to help people lead a productive, rewarding life. To that end, we offer intakes, individual and group therapy sessions, cognitive remediation, supported employment, supported education, parent support, recreational therapy, and life skills coaching.

Persons take different trajectories to seeking support at Leiber. Some are stepping down from inpatient, partial hospital, or residential care, seeking skills and support to return to independent living, school, work, and their relationships. Others are living in the community, working with an individual provider, but would benefit from additional supports, skills, connection, and community. The flexible and personalized treatment at Lieber can be adapted in intensity, focus, and time frame to meet the different needs of our diverse client populations, and the changing needs of each individual in their personal process of recovery.

Conditions We Treat

Using recovery-oriented, evidence-based treatments, the Lieber Recovery Clinic helps adults (18+) diagnosed with:

• Psychotic Disorders (schizophrenia spectrum and affective disorders with psychosis such as Schizoaffective, Bipolar and Major Depression)
• ADHD/Executive Functioning Difficulties
• High-Functioning Autism

Our Approach to Care

By providing recovery-oriented, person-centered care, we help clients achieve the goals they value- like returning to work, expanding their social activities, pursuing education, improving daily living skills, and managing medications to prevent future relapses. Psychiatric and psychological care, skills-based rehabilitation, individual coaching, supportive employment and education, and care management services are provided in an atmosphere of caring and respect. With college student programming, as well as adult and older adult services, clients are able to find care personalized to their needs.

Treatment is largely provided in a group format, with some clients receiving additional support from a staff recovery or employment coach, or psychotherapist. Assignment to groups carefully considers content focus and fit with other members. All clients participating in treatment in the Lieber Clinic continue to be under the care of a psychiatrist. Clients may continue treatment with their referring psychiatrist, or we can arrange for one of our faculty members to provide individual psychiatric care. Treatment plans can range from a single weekly group to daily engagement in clinical services at the Lieber Clinic. Treatment plans are considered after intake and in collaboration with the client.

Mental Health Treatments We Offer

We provide the following evidence-based treatments:

• ACT: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
• CBT: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (specific group focus varies: psychosis, anxiety and depression, work, school)
• Cognitive Skills Training
• NECT: Narrative Enhancement Cognitive Therapy
• DBT: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for Neurodivergent Adults
• Embracing Differences: Exploring Neurodivergence
• Executive Functioning Skills Training
• Individual Psychotherapy
• Neuropsychological Testing
• Parent Support
• Organizational Skills Coaching
• Recovery Coaching
• Social Cognition Interaction Training
• Social Skills Training
• STAIR: Skills Training in Affective and Interpersonal Regulation
• Supportive Education
• Supportive Employment
• Symptom Management
• Wellness Recovery Action Planning

Our History

In 2006, Connie and Steve Lieber generously established the Lieber Clinic in collaboration with Columbia University’s Department of Psychiatry and Alice Medalia, PhD, an internationally recognized leader in the field of psychiatric rehabilitation who is best known for her work treating cognitive deficits in people with psychiatric disorders. Our behavioral treatments focus on those areas patients have identified as most important for their recovery: symptom management, cognitive health, motivation, and skills to promote independent daily functioning. As a recovery-oriented clinic, we stress the value of personalized care for people diagnosed with severe mental illnesses.