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Mayor Bill de Blasio’s wife, First Lady Chirlane McCray, coauthored a column calling for increased access to online counseling and therapy services during the coronavirus outbreak — without mentioning her embattled $1 billion mental health plan ThriveNYC.

McCray penned the piece in the Washington Post with Dr. Kenneth Paul Rosenberg, a Manhattan psychiatrist who specializes in addiction treatment and moonlights as a filmmaker.

McCray and Rosenberg argue in the op-ed that virtual therapy sessions should replace in-person mental health treatment to promote social distancing during the pandemic.

They also argue for increased privacy and access to digital care.

There’s not a single reference to McCray’s signature project, ThriveNYC, in the column. The program has drawn criticism for its lack of metrics and failure to help people with serious mental illness.

DJ Jaffe, director of the Mental Illness Policy Org., bemoaned the column’s focus on anxiety.

Jaclyn Rothenberg, a spokeswoman or McCray, said ThriveNYC wasn’t mentioned because it didn’t make sense to promote a local program in a national publication. 

When asked what ThriveNYC was doing to help New Yorkers cope with the outbreak Rothenberg said they’d be advertising the plan’s helpline 1-888-NYC-WELL.

Last week hotline operators had to undergo training after giving out misinformation about the coronavirus.

De Blasio has said that McCray was behind his premature announcement that a shelter-in-place order was on the horizon for New York City.