Media, Broadcast & Press Commentary
Dr. Cerfolio is a trusted voice for national and international media covering gun violence, mass shootings, terrorism, and trauma-related mental health. She regularly provides expert commentary across television, radio, podcasts, and print media, offering psychologically grounded insight during breaking news and post-crisis coverage.
Known for her calm, articulate presence and ability to translate complex clinical concepts into accessible language, Dr. Cerfolio helps audiences understand the emotional and psychological aftermath of violence—on individuals, families, and society at large. Her commentary has appeared in outlets including The New York Times, The Daily Beast, and major broadcast news platforms.
Dr. Cerfolio is available for:
Television, radio, and podcast interviews
Expert commentary on breaking news and ongoing coverage
Speaking engagements and panels
Academic, policy, and professional discussions
A Rare Depth of Expertise
Dr. Cerfolio’s authority in this space is shaped not only by scholarship and clinical practice, but by direct frontline experience. She served as a first responder providing medical and psychiatric care following 9/11, and worked with victims of trauma during The Second Chechen War and Genocide. These experiences profoundly inform her understanding of terrorism, mass violence, and the individualized nature of psychological recovery.
Through this work, she recognizes that healing from terror and trauma is never one-size-fits-all. Her perspective integrates clinical science with human experience, emphasizing meaning, connection, and long-term restoration.
Private Psychiatric Practice in New York City
In addition to her public and media work, Dr. Cerfolio maintains a private practice in Greenwich Village, where she works with adults seeking depth-oriented, solution-focused psychiatric care. She is a board-certified psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where she teaches advanced psychotherapy to psychiatry residents.
Her clinical work focuses on helping individuals move through emotional suffering, trauma, and life transitions with insight, collaboration, and respect.
Areas of focus include:
Stress and burnout
Life transitions and identity challenges
Insomnia and sleep issues
Medication evaluation and management, when appropriate
Consultation, Psychotherapy & Coaching
Consultation is a collaborative, two-way process. Dr. Cerfolio takes the time to understand each patient’s history, concerns, and goals through thoughtful dialogue and comprehensive psychiatric assessment. Treatment plans are carefully tailored, integrating psychotherapy, self-exploration, reflection, and medical management when indicated.
Her approach emphasizes partnership, safety, and empowerment — helping patients move beyond obstacles toward emotional balance, resilience, and meaningful change.
Additionally, Dr. Cerfolio offers:
Psychotherapy for long-term emotional growth, insight, and relationship healing
Coaching for confidence, career, and life direction
Psychopharmacology as a complement to therapy when clinically appropriate
Her dual role as physician and psychotherapist allows her to address both biological and emotional dimensions of mental health in a truly holistic way.
About Nina Cerfolio
Nina Cerfolio MD, Associate Clinical Professor of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, is an internationally recognized expert on trauma, mass shootings and terrorism and a board certified, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in New York City. In practice for 30+ years, Nina’s success rests in her unique approach, which integrates traditional psychiatric training with her decades of spiritual training. In addition to having traditional psychiatric training, Nina has more than a decade of international and national spiritual training which includes mindfulness techniques and daily meditation. Each person dictates what mode of therapy is indicated. Through nonjudgmental and collaborative care, Nina’s life work is dedicated to work with patients to relieve and transcend emotional suffering through self exploration, dialogue, reflection, and medication when appropriate.
In recognition of her professional excellence throughout the years, Dr. Cerfolio has earned numerous awards, including Patient’s Choice Awards, Compassionate Doctor Awards and On-Time Physician Awards. See Awards.