Marty Cohen is the supervisor of the Lodge Bridger Program for the Baltic Street Mental Health Board at South Beach P.C., and the Official Photographer for the Recovery x-Change. The Lodge Bridger Program provides self-help/peer support services to individuals transitioning back into the community. For 24 years Marty was a successful portrait photographer before he experienced a devastating breakdown in October of 1993 when he was hospitalized for clinical depression. His wife and family provided the atmosphere that helped him in his recovery. He became a student at the Howie T. Harp Peer Specialist Training Center and graduated as a peer Specialist in 1997.

His first job as a Peer Specialist was working for Ameri-Corp Vista at Community Access in NYC, where he also worked for their advocacy department Marty also worked as a training consultant for the OMH/NYS Recovery Module at Manhattan P.C. Because of his unwavering dedication to recovery, Marty was honored with the consumer of the year award presented by the NYC Dept. of Mental Health's Office of Consumer Affairs in 2000.

In 2006, Marty became the consumer chairman of the Staten Island Mental Health Council which led to him being unanimously voted in as the co-chanirman of the council. As the co-chairman of the Staten Island Mental Health Council, his oversees the council's anti-stigma committee and the Staten Island P.C. wellness group. Over the course of the past ten years Marty has photographed the peer events and maintains archives of his photos to document the history of our movement as the Official Photographer of the Recovery x-Change.