Therapists in New York

Marija Marinkovic is a licensed clinical social worker. Marija is a warm and empathetic therapist who is finely attuned to people’s emotions. As people have their unique histories, experiences, and emotional buildup, she aims to provide an individualized approach to create a strong therapeutic partnership. Her goal is to empower patients so they can experience more happiness, and achieve their goals. Marija uses various approaches and therapeutic modalities to help her patients, including cognitive behavioral therapy, positive psychology, solution-focused therapy, strength-based perspectives, motivational interviewing.

Do you find yourself feeling confused, lost, or misunderstood in a world where the only constant is change? Are you having trouble opening up to the people around you out of fear of judgment? Asking for help can be difficult, but therapy can serve as the first step toward taking back your autonomy. Sometimes, to get what we need, we rely on the skills that have, out of habit, come to be like second nature. Our ability to get what we need does not always equate to using healthy mechanisms to do so. Together we can identify different aspects of your identity in order to replace any negative coping strategies.

I am very fortunate to combine my three loves: people, psychology and dogs. Over the years my dogs have accompanied me to my office and have been of great therapeutic value and pleasure in their interaction with patients of all ages. Therapy is an exciting adventure in which therapist and patient agree to explore the patient's life, dreams, problems, fears, hopes and aspirations. As therapist it is my responsibility to guide: sometimes lead, share and always to jointly explore who the individual is. While everyones' therapy is different, therapy is the opportunity to pull ones' life together and develop the courage to change.

I am a passionate and dedicated psychotherapist whose approach to therapy is eclectic, drawing from psychodynamic, CBT, solution-focused and mindfulness-based approaches. My style is warm, empathic, encouraging and always tailored to meet your individual needs. I firmly believe in everyone’s unique differences and motivate individuals to build upon their existing strengths, so that they can move forward towards healing and growth. Therapy is a powerful space, where you can examine and work through life stressors and deeply rooted patterns to create more fulfilling and meaningful life experiences.

If being melancholic, neurotic, unmotivated; having anxiety, depressive moods, obsessive thinking, nightmares; feeling displaced, feeling shame, unbearable emotional hurt, loss, feeling driven by fear are your obstacles to reach optimal way of being in this complex world, therapy is the best journey to take to get help. Benefits of taking that journey with me are that I know how to wellcome, nurture and bring to awareness human potentials to help ourselves through unleashing our own unique creative powers to resolve problems even when they are hidden in our subconscious mind.