Blanton-Peale Institute & Counseling Center N.Y.

In today’s world, we are all recognizing the vital importance of mental health care. At Blanton-Peale, we’re focused on providing affordable and accessible, holistic, and culturally-responsive mental health services and we’re training the next generation of mental health professionals. Blanton-Peale therapists walk with their clients through the challenges of life. They help them to heal, to grow, and to flourish. In 2021, we provided 41,000 sessions of affordable mental health care to New Yorkers who needed it most. This includes talk therapy and complementary psychiatric services. Our goal is to help each person become their best self, the person they were born to be, and to find their own resilience.

And because we work with such a diverse set of clients, Blanton-Peale is a sought-after training ground. Young social workers, mental health counselors, psychiatrists and psychoanalysts, get the experience they need under the wise and watchful eyes of our expert supervisors.

Our founders, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and Dr. Smiley Blanton, were innovative, forward-leaning thinkers. In the midst of the Great Depression – a time of rising unemployment, tumult and pain – Drs. Peale and Blanton were among the first to address mental health alongside spiritual care.