Dr. Zachary Poliacoff, MD
Dr. Poliacoff completed medical school and residency at the University of South Florida, where he won multiple teaching awards and published several papers on antidepressants. He has worked on several highly specialized services: the James Haley VA's outpatient PTSD program, its Spinal Cord Injury unit as a psychiatric consultant, and its inpatient/outpatient substance use program. He was also the sole psychiatrist at Riverside Recovery, a residential substance use treatment program, and on both Tampa General Hospital's and the James Haley VA's psychiatric consult services for medically complex patients.
Dr. Poliacoff currently works at Bellevue's Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program, where he’s a clinical educator for NYU's medical students and psychiatry residents. He is familiar with the latest developments in psychiatric treatment, including the newest pharmaceutical agents and the most up-to-date evidence for a variety of non-pharmaceutical supplements, as well as older, less commonly used but highly effective drugs like MAOIs and TCAs. He has extensive psychotherapeutic training with a focus on substance use, trauma, ADHD, OCD, and anxiety spectrum disorders.
Our Treatment Philosophy
Our mission is to provide high quality, personalized, and holistic mental health care with close attention paid to your wants and needs. Our approach is focused on acting as your partner in your mental wellbeing, not just treating you as a patient. Together, we will find the right balance of pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic strategies to help you meet your goals, whatever they are.
Our Payment Model
For New York patients, we accept Aetna, Cigna, Anthem, BCBS, and several other commercial insurance plans. You can provide your insurance information and schedule an appointment through my Headway profile.
We also accept cash for patients who would prefer not to have an insurance record of their visit or are located in Florida.
For cash pay patients, new patient evaluations are scheduled for 60 minutes and are $450. Follow-up appointments are scheduled for 30 minutes and are $250.