Thryve story · February 8, 2026
Thryve’s first door opens
in Williamsburg.
The orange ribbon marked a beginning for Williamsburg—and for Thryve. Community leaders, clinicians, and referral partners gathered to celebrate the network’s first Psychiatry Program, bringing a shared commitment to earlier care into a place families can reach.
Williamsburg grand opening
A local beginning for a wider vision.
On Sunday afternoon, February 8, Thryve marked the opening of its first Psychiatry Program at MedCare, 468 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. The program operates in collaboration with MedCare LLC, the licensed medical provider, bringing psychiatric care into an established local medical setting.
For the people who helped build it, the opening gave a familiar concern a practical answer. Families and the professionals supporting them too often face a search shaped by waiting lists, cost, uncertainty, and the worry that care will not understand their lives. The work behind this program began with listening to those experiences.
The gathering brought the community into that next step. Therapists, organizational leaders, clinical professionals, and referral partners met the team and saw the space together. Their presence reflected how much of the path into care begins with people a family already knows and trusts.
Williamsburg is the first local expression of Thryve’s larger vision: a connected community mental-health network, with programs shaped around the people they serve. The ribbon cutting celebrated that beginning. What follows is the everyday responsibility of making the path dependable.
Built through local relationships
The community helped bring this door into reach.
Williamsburg therapist and community activist Volvy Freund helped organize the opening. His involvement reflects the importance of the professionals who hear a concern early, help a family make sense of its options, and recognize when a clearer next step is needed.
Those relationships continue after an opening. A community partner may be the first person someone approaches for help. Building a program alongside that trusted network makes it easier to connect the initial conversation with an appropriate clinical response.
The clinical foundation
Trust must lead to thoughtful care.
Dr. Leah R. Steinberg’s medical direction places clinical judgment at the center of the program. Rachel Simon and the Thryve leadership team helped carry the work from a shared concern into an operating pathway, while Chaim Tuchinsky’s outreach and programming work keeps the response close to the community.
In her reflection after the opening, Dr. Steinberg described the importance of joining clinical integrity with community partnership. A familiar setting and a welcoming first conversation matter because of the responsible, coordinated care that must follow them.
What the program makes possible
A clearer route from a concern to care.
The Psychiatry Program provides access to psychiatric evaluation, medication management, and continuing follow-up. In-person appointments offer a local point of connection, while telehealth creates another way to reach care when appropriate.
Major insurance participation helps address cost. Cultural understanding and confidentiality help people feel able to begin. These practical details matter together: an available service becomes useful when a person can understand the next step and feel comfortable taking it.
From the opening onward
Keep building from what families need.
The measure of this opening will be found in the experience of the people who come through the program and the partners who help them get there. Their questions, needs, and feedback will continue to shape the work.
Williamsburg establishes a beginning Thryve can build on: understand a community, work with its trusted relationships, and connect those relationships to professional care. The first door is open. The responsibility now is to keep that connection working.
Built around Williamsburg
Care shaped around the community’s language, relationships, and practical barriers to access.
A clearer first step
One route into evaluation, medication management, and continuing psychiatric follow-up.
A model built to grow
This first local access point shows how the same connected approach can be shaped around other community needs.
What continues