Therapists in Greenwood, Brooklyn, NY

I work with adults experiencing interpersonal conflict, family conflict, self-esteem issues, anxiety, trauma, depression, grief, and anger management. I work collaboratively with clients to explore and enhance their motivation for change. By working together, we can strengthen your drive to overcome challenges and achieve your goals. Through this approach, we can establish safety, trust, and empowerment in our therapeutic relationship, helping you heal and regain control over your life.

Laura believes that every client is the expert in their own life. She knows that just showing up to therapy requires a tremendous amount of vulnerability, and her goal is that every client would feel empowered to continue to show up to themselves and to the therapeutic process. Laura sees therapy as a collaborative process and seeks to understand, make her clients feel seen, and guide the process towards the goals we establish together.

If life has felt particularly hard or upsetting recently, know that you don’t have to navigate it alone. As a psychotherapist, I meet with people living with anxiety, depression, grief and more. I frequently work with adults who have experienced childhood trauma, helping them to understand past experiences and thrive in the present and future. My clients have often realized that their current coping skills are no longer working, and in seeking therapy are taking an important, difficult and necessary step to feel better.

I am a NYS Bilingual (English, Spanish speaking) Licensed Clinical Social Worker and specialize in the treatment of anxiety, depression disorders, ADD, trauma, and relationship issues in adults. In addition to speciality in working with couples in all stages, whether it’s seeking to strengthen relationship and grow as a couple, making a decision, or helping become uncoupled in a healthy way.

My goal as a therapist is to create an open and safe space for clients in which we can work collaboratively and foster change. Together we can explore both what is troubling and unrewarding for you as well as strengths you may find hard to discern and fully realize. As you gain a better understanding of all aspects of yourself, we will work to transform patterns that no longer serve you and reimagine more satisfying ways of being. Our goal will be to help you find a more positive and capable sense of yourself with a greater ability to face and overcome challenges.

I am passionate about helping adults navigate their complex inner worlds. I enjoy working with those who project confidence and self-assurance in various facets of life yet privately battle grief, depression, or anxiety. I also enjoy working with women and pregnancy-capable people to understand how their mental health and reproductive health journeys are intertwined. I create a compassionate space for clients who have experienced MDD, infertility, and perinatal loss, including abortion and miscarriage.

I have extensive experience working with young adults striving to live intentional lives full of purpose and meaning in a chaotic world they did not make. My clients experience low self-esteem, cross-generational conflict, anxiety about the future, and sadness about the past. We explore experiences regarding family, feeling loved in intimate relationships, communicating effectively, and questioning spirituality. The clients I work with want to be seen for who they are while feeling comfortable in their skin.

I work with adults transitioning emotionally, professionally, and in interpersonally. My clients desire emotional growth; they understand that change happens from within. The clients I work with strive for deeper connections and the creation of meaningful lives.

Life's challenges, past traumas or present stresses, can make us feel very overwhelmed. Deeply affecting our lives, relationships, and overall well-being. But you don't have to navigate it alone! I support adults in navigating trauma, life transitions, relationship issues, family conflicts, loss, depression, and anxiety, often focusing on how childhood trauma influences adulthood. Together we’ll decipher the intricate patterns of behavior that may be holding you back and grapple with hard emotions. By letting things unravel, past and present experiences, you will rediscover yourself and create the path towards transformative change.

Therapy is a collaborative process. Every individual is unique and going on this journey is the first step to you working towards becoming your best self. This looks different for everyone, so I like to start with a free consultation call so we can see if its a good fit. I have worked in Mental Health for over a decade. I have experience with crisis intervention in the community, working with individuals/families. For the last several years, my focus has been using talk therapy, with a mindfulness approach, assisting folks going through life transitions, experiencing anxiety, depression, grief and loss, and caregiver burnout.

As a born-and-raised Brooklynite, I love the city that never sleeps and the diverse residents of it. People who gravitate toward working with me tend to be people with spiritual backgrounds seeking answers and willing to do the work of therapy. You may be a perfectionist, be high-achieving, and have big expectations of yourself. This has led you to feel like you don’t know yourself, like you never fit in, like you’re a failure. We can work together to gain clarity on identity and values, learn how the past affects the present, and choose healthier thoughts. In sessions, you can be vulnerable; therapy is safe and judgment-free.

The mission of the Good Start Therapy Mental Health Counseling, PLLC is to provide you with the resources you need to succeed in your personal and professional life.

Are you having trouble navigating relationships with friends, loved ones, and colleagues? Are you feeling like your emotions are getting too big to handle? Or are you just feeling down on yourself lately? You might feel like you are constantly being misunderstood by those around you, which may lead you either to push people away or violate your own boundaries by people-pleasing. You may even find that you are comparing yourself to others, which is becoming detrimental to how you see yourself. But you don’t have to go at it alone.

Modern life comes with a bevy of unique challenges, which can leave you feeling confused, alone, or lacking a sense of meaning and purpose. Perhaps you feel lonely, or alienated in your social life. Perhaps you no longer enjoy the activities that once brought you pleasure, and find yourself wondering, "what's the point"? You may be lacking social support and feel disconnected from yourself, hoping to clarify your desires and needs while building up your sense of self-worth. You’ve likely spent a lot of time thinking about these important issues, but you do not have to do it alone.

Do you ever wake up with a pit in your stomach, but aren’t sure why? Do you have a nagging sense of being “not enough,” or a feeling like something about you just isn’t fitting in with the world around you? Do you feel like parts of you are hidden away, maybe even to yourself? Oftentimes, these feelings arise because unhelpful beliefs we carry from childhood. Becoming aware of the reasons for these beliefs is the first step in changing them and stepping into who you are.

Are you dealing with stressful thoughts or feelings? Maybe all the internal and external pressures is making each day harder, especially if you're navigating American culture as a person of color or of immigrant heritage. The weight you're experiencing may be limiting your capacity to process feelings, stay present, or feel joy. That's why it's important for you to build self-compassion, acceptance, and a sense of efficacy. You deserve a nurturing space where you can start putting yourself first.

People come from different walks of life, with unique challenges and unique needs. There isn’t always a “one size fits all” solution for something that can be so complex. Anderson’s style emphasizes the collaboration between client and therapist through a Person-Centered Approach, while utilizing techniques from other modalities such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and psycho-dynamic Therapy.

Would you like to work collaboratively to gain important insights, make real changes in how you relate to yourself and others, move toward emotional freedom, and reach your desired goals so that you can grow into the person you are truly meant to be? I have over 20 years of experience working with individuals, families and groups in multiple spaces including schools and colleges, behavioral health centers and community based settings and am here to help. I have experience with a range of concerns including but not limited to grief, anxiety, depression, infertility, postpartum, parenting and relationship challenges

Finding the right therapist can be a challenge. If you are looking for a person-centered space to explore how to become the best version of yourself, then you've come to the right place!