The Practice

Birch Cooper, LMHC
Founder/ Director
Birch Cooper continues his mission to foster community and empower business leaders with his latest project: talktherapy.nyc.
Inspired by conversations with colleagues about effective therapy this platform and practice were designed with two goals. First, to connect clients with mental health professionals that are an ideal fit to meet their needs. Second, it strives to support therapists in discovering their unique voices as clinicians, enhance their skills in marketing, leadership, and ultimately reach their full potential as successful, independent, private practice owners.

Serena Thomas, LMHC
Brand Partner
Serena Thomas has a Masters in Mental Health Counseling (LMHC) and a Masters of Cultural Anthropology (MA), alongside 18 years of international clinical experience— working in urban and humanitarian emergency zones across 16 countries, most recently Congo, Iraq and Ukraine.
Currently, in New York City, she is a licensed therapist seeing adolescent and adult clients where she creates a safe space for clients to break free from their limitations and get unstuck.

Inna Dukach, LMHC
Brand Partner
Inna Dukach, LMHC, is a therapist whose clinical work is shaped by a life in performance as an internationally acclaimed lyric soprano. Her perspective is grounded in the realities of professional performance: the relentless standards, the exposure, the vulnerability, and the invisible stress that can build behind excellence.
She works with creatives and high-functioning professionals who are successful on the outside, but want more ease, stability, and emotional freedom on the inside.


