For clients seeking expert psychiatric care specializing in ambition, focus, and determination.
Expert Psychiatric Care to Achieve Your Goals
Kari Groff, MD, has over 20 years of psychiatric experience helping highly determined patients and families achieve goals and maintain ambition and motivation in a competitive environment. Under Dr. Groff's care, patients receive consistent encouragement and strategic medication management to help focus and face issues that need solving in order to achieve their goals.
What to Expect
Psychiatric Care That Delivers Results
Dr. Groff provides expert psychiatric evaluation grounded in evidence and medication management tailored to highly motivated individuals and families. Every treatment plan is built around your goals, not just your symptoms.
Ideal Client
You May Be the Right Fit If…
- You are a high-achieving adult who is driven but would like more support to function at the level you need.
- You struggle with anxiety, perfectionism, or difficulty focusing despite being highly motivated.
- You want to perform at your best but feel held back by mental health challenges.
- You are a student navigating the pressures of elite academic environments.
- You are a parent seeking expert psychiatric care for a gifted or high-achieving child.
Adult Clients
Dr. Groff maintains a robust practice serving high-performing adults: physicians, lawyers, CEOs, entrepreneurs, financial professionals, technologists, and creatives. She understands that success at the highest levels comes with its own distinct pressures: the relentless demands of leadership, the weight of high-stakes decisions, the difficulty of sustaining focus and energy over a long career, and the challenge of maintaining personal well-being while driving professional achievement. Dr. Groff works with clients who are deeply motivated and goal oriented, helping them identify and address any psychiatric obstacles — ADHD, anxiety, burnout, executive function challenges — that may be standing between them and their next level of performance. Her approach is collaborative, discreet, and built around each client's unique definition of success.
High School and College Students
Dr. Groff frequently works with students from Packer, Stuyvesant, Poly Prep, Berkeley Carroll, Friends, Saint Ann's, Dalton, Grace Church, Brooklyn Tech, Bard, and many other excellent private and public schools in NYC. Her clients are students at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Penn, and many outstanding colleges. She has years of fostering connections with academic institutions and working with the guidance teams to help her clients find success. Dr. Groff also has deep expertise in securing academic accommodations, including extended time, reduced-distraction testing environments, and other support services, helping students and families navigate the evaluation and documentation process with their schools and testing organizations.
Middle School Students
Middle school is one of the most pivotal and often most turbulent periods in a young person's academic journey. Dr. Groff specializes in working with middle schoolers who are bright, driven, and beginning to feel the pressure of what comes next. Whether a student is preparing to apply to a competitive NYC public high school, a prestigious private school, or a boarding school, Dr. Groff helps families identify and address the psychiatric and learning challenges that may be holding them back. She conducts thorough evaluations to uncover issues such as ADHD, anxiety, or executive function difficulties that can quietly undermine a capable student's performance. Dr. Groff works in close collaboration with current schools, learning specialists, and guidance counselors to ensure each student receives the right support, including academic accommodations where appropriate, so they can enter the next chapter of their education with confidence and clarity.
Elementary School Children
Some of the most rewarding work Dr. Groff does involves young children who are very bright and without behavioral concerns, yet whose academic performance does not reflect their potential. When neuropsychological testing has confirmed giftedness but a child continues to struggle in the classroom, there is often an underlying psychiatric or neurodevelopmental factor that has gone unaddressed. Dr. Groff works with elementary-aged children and their families to identify what is standing in the way, whether that is ADHD, anxiety, sensory sensitivities, or subtle executive function challenges that are easy to overlook in a child who is pleasant and eager to please. Early intervention at this stage can be transformative, setting a child on a trajectory that honors their true capabilities and builds the confidence and skills they will carry throughout their academic life.
Collaborative Care
A Network Built for Your Success
Dr. Groff has spent years cultivating one of the most comprehensive professional networks in NYC, connecting her clients with the right experts at every stage of their journey. She regularly collaborates with executive functioning coaches, individual and family therapists, psychologists, neuropsychologists, educational consultants, college counselors, tutors, academic advisors, learning specialists, occupational therapists, nutritionists, and wellness coaches. She also works closely with school guidance counselors, deans, and administrators at both the secondary and collegiate levels, as well as pediatricians, internists, and other physicians who are part of a client's broader care team. This network means Dr. Groff's clients never navigate their challenges alone; they have access to a carefully vetted circle of professionals working in concert toward a shared goal.
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Our Approach
Modern Psychiatry for the Busy Professional and Student
Comprehensive psychiatric evaluation to understand the full picture of your mental health and goals.
Evidence-based medication management tailored to your lifestyle and performance needs.
Ongoing collaboration and consistent encouragement to keep you on track.
Coordination with therapists, coaches, and other providers in your care team.
Flexible in-person and virtual appointments to fit your demanding schedule.
Fees & Insurance
A Private Practice Built Around You
Dr. Groff is an out-of-network provider and does not participate in any insurance plans. This model allows her to offer a level of care, availability, and discretion that is simply not possible within the constraints of insurance-based practice. Her fee is $600 per hour. Many clients find that their out-of-network benefits provide partial reimbursement. Dr. Groff’s office can provide a detailed receipt (superbill) that may be submitted directly to your insurance carrier. Patients are encouraged to contact their insurance provider in advance to understand their out-of-network mental health benefits.
About Dr. Groff
Kari Groff, MD
Expert care as you achieve big goals.
Kari Groff, MD is a well-respected NYC psychiatrist. She completed her psychiatry training at the University of Pennsylvania and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia where she served as chief resident. She is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha, the highest academic medical honor society in the medical profession. She was elected by her peers to the prestigious Gold Humanism in Medicine Society, an award that celebrates a physician’s ability to practice compassionate medicine and serve as a role model to other physicians. Dr. Groff completed a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at the NYU Child Study Center. She is board-certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in both adult and child psychiatry. She is frequently consulted for her extensive training and experience in psychopharmacology, her gentle and appropriate use of medication, and her wellness-centered approach focusing on a patient’s strengths and goals. Dr. Groff co-founded Community and Beyond, an exclusive networking society for health providers and entrepreneurs. She is the founder of a 5,000-person organization connecting mental health care providers from around NYC and is focused on expanding her international connections.
Location
Conveniently Located in Brooklyn Heights
Dr. Groff’s practice is based in Brooklyn Heights, one of New York City’s most accessible neighborhoods, just minutes from both Downtown Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan. Whether crossing the bridge from the city or traveling from within Brooklyn, clients find the location easy to reach by subway, car, or on foot. In-person appointments are available at the Brooklyn Heights office. Virtual appointments are available for patients located anywhere in New York State. Out-of-state patients are welcome to be seen in person.