Couples Counseling Therapists in Cambridge, NY

You do not need to be suffering to benefit from counseling—we can all improve our lives by better understanding our feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. We would welcome the opportunity to alleviate your pain or self-sabotaging patterns while increasing your inner peace and purpose. NYC Counseling’s therapy techniques can help you to release powerful, unconscious blocks and fears. Whatever your goal, let's work together to find the tools to overcome the hurdles you are facing to live a more vibrant and fulfilling life. With clinicians who have varied backgrounds, specialties, and perspectives, we can find the right fit for you.

Hi there! My name is Kristen Lancto. I am a licensed master social worker. I have 6.5 years of experience in the field. I am highly empathic and strive to build rapport with all of my clients. I am accepting new clients!

Life transitions can bring emotions of anxiety, depression, anger and feeling overwhelmed. Often times these emotions can impact personal and work relationships. I believe that with time and strategic goal planning these feelings and patterns can be shaped and managed.

My goal is to support and guide my clients towards a happier, fulfilled self. My treatment methods focus on your strengths and goals. You create your own story and together we can therapeutically build a working relationship that allows for you to achieve the best self that you seek. My passion lies with working with young adults, adults.

People seeking to become who they really are---that is, whole, balanced, resilient, contented---seek me out. I support kind, healthy, authentic relationship with all aspects of oneself because such relationship is key to kind, healthy, authentic relationships with others. It's also key to expressing ourselves most fully, both creatively and pragmatically. Whether working with individuals or couples, these principles apply. I try to make our work together as fun, co-creative, and as low in stress as possible. I intend for clients to leave therapy with personalized skills and skillful means for ongoing lifetime growth and resiliency.

We all come with an inherent set of strengths and skills that has allowed us to navigate life to this point. However, life transitions and challenges can tap our reserves and make drawing upon these strengths feel almost impossible. I provide an affirming, comfortable space to support you in identifying what you already have that is working and ways to apply this with more regularity and ease moving forward. Through compassionate, integrative life coaching, I work to help you add to your existing skill set, develop insight, identify areas of your life that need greater focus to create lasting change.

I'm glad you're here! I help people free themselves from painful relational patterns and start feeling calm, safe and authentic. We will work with experiences that are keeping you stuck, like trauma, marginalization, and difficult relationships, so that you can feel and process your emotions, heal past wounds, accommodate yourself and truly be you. I offer individual therapy, couples therapy and therapy for all kinds of relationship structures, including non-monogamous relationships and blended families.

Over the course of the past 20 years, I have had the honor of treating youth, adults, families, and couples who have worked through adjustment issues, grief, trauma, anxiety, depression, identity, relationship challenges, infertility, coping with a chronic illness, and conflict resolution.

Therapy provides the support to make changes and an enviornment where alternative ways of thinking, reacting and feeling can occur. I am a New York State Licensed Clinical Social Worker who works with adults struggling with depression, OCD, anxiety/panic, PTSD and relationship issues.

35 years experience working with individuals and couples in Westchester, I practice in Hartsdale, NY, and New Paltz, NY. I work with ages 18 and up, adults and couples, treating issues such as trauma, anxiety, depression and relationship issues, parenting skills training and mindfulness. Making personal and life changes can be difficult. A skilled and caring therapist can help. This is an important piece of work I do, as we can never change others, only ourselves. I strive to create a safe, caring environment for clients. I also offer Equine (Horse) assisted learning therapy, no riding involved. Call for a free 10 min consult

Limited space available for new couples clients. Do you want to improve your communications within a relationship or work on other couples issues? Are you experiencing anxiety or depression; or perhaps you're going through a life, relationship or career transition? Is there a part of you that wants to make things happen for yourself, to create change, to make things better? I am ready to provide a safe and empathetic space for you to explore the many possibilities that are out there for you, and "try on" new ways of experiencing yourself in the world.

Offer client focused approach to help persons find their resilience again through use of technique, compassion, identifying patterns which contribute to the difficulties and establishing healthier ones. Focus on positive coping skills, problem solving, goal setting and stress management. Experienced with anxiety/depression, trauma, family issues, work related stress, relationship interactions, addiction and mental health difficulties, grief and loss. I have worked in two federally qualified health centers using integrated approaches to assist people in reaching better health outcomes and managing chronic conditions.

I see psychotherapy as a way to alleviate emotional pain and to help you live a more expansive, satisfying and meaningful life. Central to the work of psychotherapy is a collaborative and safe working relationship. I strive to create a warm, non-judgmental and unique relationship with each person. I have an interactive style, listening closely, asking questions and sharing my observations while also creating the space for quiet reflection.

Counseling that is rooted in Attachment theory will create lasting improvements in all of your relationships. No more lists of coping skills that do not help when it gets hard. No more forever counseling; we will work hard to achieve results that you can hold on to. In session we will find some old hurts that never healed, we will sequence your experiences to find out what is going on, we will understand your current approaches and responds to conflict, we will learn about you. Together we will create doable plans that will be right for you, together we will work towards you feeling more connected.

Developmental and life transitions can often cause anxiety, depression or lead to feelings of hopelessness and confusion. However crisis can also be an opportunity for growth and healing, a catalyst for positive change in our lives. By creating a space for self-exploration, free from judgment and pressure, I can help you to discover and develop your strengths, develop advanced coping skills to manage conflicts and develop a compassionate understanding of your vulnerabilities. We will work together to identify and change self-defeating patterns helping you to feel more productive in your life and satisfied with your relationships.

I offer clinical support to adults and couples experiencing life transitions and challenges that create stress, tension, anxiety, and depression. I use a holistic, strengths-based approach, understanding that within all of us lie resilience and a deep desire to overcome limitations, and to find peace and happiness. My goal as a therapist is to support people in empowering themselves. We all face challenges at different points in our lives. Overcoming these challenges provides an opportunity to grow, learn, transform and find meaning.

Accepting new clients! Navigating the challenges that arise in all stages of life can be eased through opening ourselves to support and making space for exploring and developing our own inherent strengths, resources, and skills. In acknowledging and honoring ourselves as competent, powerful, and capable, we can create positive change. I provide compassionate support, validation, and understanding in this work, collaborating with you to intentionally and effectively address your needs and goals, while fostering a positive sense of self- worth, efficacy, and empowerment.

Between relationships, career, life changes, or various responsibilities, it can leave you feeling fatigued, anxious, stressed or sad. You may feel you should be able to handle things yourself, or that you may not be able to find the support and tools you need to feel better. My goal is to ensure you feel comfortable, supported and help you gain insight into patterns in your life that help or hold you back - and find actionable approaches so you can grow. All with the thread of best practices using cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal and mindfulness based therapy.