Therapists in Yorktown Heights, NY

Therapy can empower you by affirming your strengths and expanding your capacity to deal with problems more effectively. In short, therapy can lead to a more fulfilling life. Our mission is to provide affordable, quality care to all those who make up our diverse and vibrant community. For the past fifty years, we have built our reputation by providing individualized psychotherapy in a warm, supportive, empathic, authentic, and compassionate environment.

You long to release the emotional strongholds and frustrating patterns that have taken over your life. You seek to break free from being a victim of your past and being held back by unresolved pain, recurrent conflicts, and trauma. You would like to embrace awareness, healing, self-discovery, and self-mastery. I am here to help you reconnect with hope and inspiration and make therapy an enriching and empowering experience. Our work together can help transform the pain and wounding of your past and present challenges into your truth and potential for connection, ease, joy, and fulfillment.

You’re realizing the past still hurts. Painful experiences in your childhood colored your inner world gray... Lingering wounds like childhood trauma, narcissistic parents, enmeshment in your family, and betrayal trauma impact how you see yourself and interact with others. You want to break free of old pain but don’t know where to start. You are not alone. Many high functioning adults deal with the hidden aftereffects of dysfunction in their family of origin. They inhabit roles of perfectionist, people-pleaser, or high achiever attempting to compensate for deeply internalized self-blame, shame, or inadequacy.

I am a licensed psychotherapist with extensive experience treating a range of mental health issues including anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship distress. My practice is guided by evidence-based approaches to improving mood, promoting change, understanding relational dynamics, and resolving conflict.

Deirdre built First Step Therapy & Wellness Group from the ground up and has been hands on every step of the way. Her work ethic is indisputable and she is completely invested in creating a cohesive work environment adhering to values such as mutual respect and equality. She believes healthy doses of restraint combined with self discipline are key components to her success both personally and professionally. Deirdre is highly regarded by her peers and is a long-standing staple within the community where she is committed to creating a safe secure environment for her clients and colleagues. Ms. Holland currently maintains an established private practice

Whether you're seeking comfort, clarity or empowerment, I'm here to compassionately witness your journey while offering guidance and support. I'm skilled at assisting clients in untangling emotional knots, rewriting internal narratives, cultivating post-traumatic growth, increasing confidence and sense of well-being in work, play and relationships. I have experience in serving these populations: highly sensitive people (HSPs); Asians and Asian-Americans, immigrants, anyone who is seeking to understand and increase their emotional intelligence.

Tina utilizes an integrative approach to counseling. Drawing from techniques that are rooted in psychodynamic, multicultural, feminist, and person-centered therapy, she seeks to aid and empower clients as they activate their inner capacity for growth. Tina strives to create a safe therapeutic environment and form therapeutic alliances that are built upon trust, respect, and acceptance.

I am a therapist who understands the importance of building rapport with my clients. In any healthy relationship, a successful therapeutic relationship is one which values honesty, transparency, acceptance, safety and trust. In me, you will find a therapist who is not only warm and inviting, but one who is willing to walk with you at your individual pace. If you are someone who is looking for homework, I will be ready with assignments in hand. Or if you just want to focus on processing through your experiences, my ears are open. You will feel heard and seen by me.

I am a Licensed Psychologist specialized in working with young to middle-age adults, particularly graduate students and young professionals in New York and New Jersey. As a therapist of color, I recognize the importance of honoring and respecting the intersectionality of your identities. My work with clients primarily focus on multicultural challenges, addressing relationship concerns, managing and reducing anxiety, healing from intergenerational trauma, and fostering a strong sense of self. My style is an integration of CBT and process-oriented therapies from a multicultural framework. I also offer Boundary Coaching to AAPI women.

We have seasons in our lives that are filled with stress, anxiety, sadness, guilt, disappointment, grief, and even hopelessness. It can be overwhelming, getting stuck in a place where we cannot see a way forward, unable to change unwanted and repeated behaviors, where no one seems to understand or able to help, feeling frustrated, unmotivated, discouraged, alone, and even ashamed. Or you may be going through transitions, significant changes in work, family, relationships, and are understandably overwhelmed with uncertainty and feelings of loss. If this has been your experience, there is help to walk towards healing and renewal.

Are you saying to yourself that you will give your all to being a better person? Are you living your dreams? Do you have a secret that you need to share or serve in an active duty war zone? We all have moments where we need some extra help. I work within a group practice and we will listen to your relationship, family members, pain, depression, anxiety, addiction and how you really feel. We want to talk to you and offer open feedback without judgment. I work with seniors, adults, teens. We are motivating and optimistic therapists with years of experience working with employment, mental health and substance abuse addictions.

Hi, I’m Jiexuan, a licensed mental health counselor in New York and New Jersey. I’m glad you’re here. I grew up in China and graduated from Columbia University with a degree in counseling. As an Asian cis-woman, first-generation immigrant, and ally to the LGBTQIA+ community, I deeply understand the challenge of managing minority stress and navigating systematic inequality. I strive to create a safe, nonjudgemental, and compassionate therapy space by bringing my authentic self to the work. I speak Mandarin, English, and Cantonese and have experience providing therapy in all three languages.

Given the complexities and demands of society today, it is inevitable that at some point in all of our lives, we will experience an emotional or challenging event. My view of therapy is that I am here to help you. Together we will explore your situation and utilize the strengths within you, at your own pace, to overcome the challenges the world presents to you.

Life is not an easy road. New worries come with every stage and it can feel helpless to face those challenges on your own. I am dedicated to helping clients with anxiety, ADHD, depression, managing new changes and stress, and improving self-esteem. If you want to make a change, are motivated, and are ready to work, I'd love to be able to help. I hope to offer my clients a safe space to explore themselves in-depth without fear of judgment and work together to bring about lasting change.

My expertise includes: lasting effects of childhood adversity, acculturation stress, chronic indecision, anxious attachment, and challenges encountered in the Asian American community. I provide teletherapy throughout NY only.

Yoon Im Kane is a psychotherapist, author, keynote speaker and the founder and CEO of Mindful Psychotherapy Services, a Manhattan-based Psychotherapy Company with offices in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Trained at Yale University, Yoon has been providing treatment as a psychotherapist for more than two decades. She is also the founder of a Maui-based tech company, mndlink, inc., a remote therapy platform that securely connects therapist with patients. Yoon is the author of Mindfulness Workbook for Depression: Effective Mindfulness Strategies to Cultivate Positivity from the Inside Out.

Hello, my name is Sophie and I am interested in holistic health and maximizing our human potential for creativity, connection, and well-being. Life can be confusing, painful, and disorienting sometimes. I'm here to let you know that you don't have to go it alone! As a biracial individual, I embrace intersectionality and the multiplicative challenges and joys that come with a multicultural identity. I also take a feminist approach to my work, so that my clients feel empowered, validated, and valued. I am committed to anti-racist and anti-oppressive practice, wherein we explore power dynamics within and outside of the therapy room.

Do you find yourself feeling like a cog in a machine, stuck in a joyless career? Do you feel like you’re moving through life on autopilot, unable to take meaningful action? Are you looking to make personal and professional changes? My goal is to empower you to be more present for the moments and people that truly matter to you. Together we’ll innovate and reimagine new ways of thinking so that you are more present and aligned with what means most to you. Let's take you off autopilot and put you back in the driver's seat.

Therapy can serve as a safe, nurturing, and nonjudgmental space to work through challenges in your everyday life. As a 1.5 generation immigrant, I specialize in working with BIPOC folx, specifically Asian-Americans, young working professionals, and mothers in the pregnancy, prenatal and postpartum period. As a psychotherapist and music therapist, my approach is warm, supportive, and caring. I practice from an attachment-based, psychodynamic, strength-based, and trauma-focused framework utilizing a combination of CBT, DBT, parts work, as well as EMDR, and will tailor my approach based on your needs and goals in therapy.