Therapists in Mohegan Lake, NY

I have a profound understanding of the transformative power embedded within relational dynamics. Early in my educational voyage, I immersed myself in family systems, unveiling the unique potency residing in healing connections. I find a special resonance in my work with couples and families, crafting an integrative approach to relational healing. I use an integrative approach to relational healing drawing upon the wisdom of John and Julie Gottman, Esther Perel and Terry Real among others. I emphasize the roles of trauma and adversity in understanding the human experience.

I want to help you feel more okay and be more equipped to navigate current challenges and stay in connection by tending to the source of your triggers, symptoms, and emotional pain that makes reality harder for you. Our subconscious inner world organizes itself around pain, and it will get creative to keep us away from overwhelming, scary, and alone experiences we have lived through. I’ll make invitations that could expand your capacity to be with hard things while feeling rooted in curiosity and compassion. When our wounds feel deeply understood by us, they transform into inner wisdom and we feel true belonging within ourselves.

Initial session is always free of charge. As a holistically-oriented mind-body psychotherapist, I provide a warm and affirming therapy experience dedicated to your healing and happiness. We will work together to help you get unstuck by addressing internal & external obstacles. This is your time to go beyond survival to thriving with a life that you love. I work with adults on issues such as procrastination, anxiety, sadness, depression, life transitions, boundary-setting, OCD, trauma, PTSD, abuse, feeling stuck - as well as managing ongoing stress stemming from work, housing, relationships, & family.

I'm so glad you're here. Finding a supportive, therapeutic home can be a difficult challenge for us as queer, transgender, and non-binary people. Therefore, I hold some values to create a safer space: you are the expert in your own lived experience; you already posses the strengths that will help you with the challenges you're facing; you deserve a place without judgement; and you are entitled to be your authentic self. I come from a cross-cultural, social justice perspective, and believe collaboration with you is necessary for your best self. I serve individuals and families.

Everyone deserves to be seen, heard, and valued. I collaborate with families, couples, and individuals to unpack and work through challenges and struggles from a strengths-based perspective. I work with clients to understand the larger cultural systems around all of us and how they impact our relationships and identities. I work from an anti-oppression, anti-diet, neurodiversity- affirming, disability justice, and Covid-conscious lens.

If you are a queer and/or trans person of color looking to explore the ways that your intersectional identities shape your life, I may be the right fit for you! I'm interested in working with folks who want to move beyond mainstream, Western narratives of mental health and well-being, and connect with the roots and paths that have forged your unique path. How do we define our "best self", and what societal structures may have impacted that idea? How do we move towards being more comfortable and vulnerable at the expense of shattering lifelong ideas of how we are meant to live?

NY & DC Residents Only - Life transitions can get messy. We all face times of uncertainty, loss, and endings. Transitions can also mean new beginnings, different relationships, and exploring the unknown in your future and your past. Our sessions are a space to examine roots of systemic oppression, inherited fears, environmental trauma, and harmful labels you were given that you didn't ask for. My role is to walk with you as we examine your patterns for growth, detach what no longer serves you, and map out your mental health wellness journey together.

Any intersecting identities, bodies and abilities are welcomed here in this brave space we collaborate on together. I'm Luna (they/them) and I am a trans, nonbinary, queer, polyam and Latine therapist based in New York. My lived experiences as a queer and trans, low-income, first generation student with immigrant parents, inform how I am able to provide the most collaborative, client-centered and strengths based care to provide transformative justice towards your healing.

I remember my own experience meeting my new therapist. I was anxious to talk to a new person. I did not know if I would make sense. I did not want to feel judged. I remember feeling lost and hopeless. The only thing I knew was that I wanted to change the bad feelings and I resisted to believe that there was something wrong with me. I wanted someone who could guide me to understand my world and myself. I wanted a safe space. I needed to find someone who could collaborate with me in changing and resisting. I did not want a therapist who treated me as a study object. I just wanted to feel fully human.

You might not realize it yet but you know yourself better than anyone else. What I have found in my personal and professional experience is that the more connected and compassionate we are with ourselves, the more connected and compassionate we are to our surroundings. I am a Brown, queer, gender non-conforming, immigrant, psychotherapist. I practice from an anti-oppressive lens that acknowledges the impact of the many systems we navigate under everyday. Naming the impact along with an exploration of the self, can lead us to a deeper understanding of ourselves and our humanity.

I see therapy as a partnership where we co-create a space that fosters healing, exploration, and growth. In this space, we will work together to help you gain a better understanding of your relationship to yourself and to others. My approach will be tailored to your specific needs through various modalities. These may include considering how early life experiences have shaped who you are today, understanding how to bring awareness and attention to various emotional experiences, or learning how to examine and hold the many different parts of ourselves that make us who we are.

I believe everyone has a story that needs to be shared. Therapy can be a space where we challenge how we relate to our stories as well as the one's we've been told by our families, cultures, and society. Therapy can also be a space where we reckon with the universal systems and histories of oppression that have impacted our stories, our ability to tell them, and how we feel they are received in the world. I provide support to those who are motivated towards greater understandings of their stories in order to heal the connections in their relationships with themselves and others.

Ali (they/them) is an artist and Creative Arts Therapist. Ali has worked in a variety of therapeutic, community, and educational settings, providing therapy for toddlers, children, teens, and adults. They approach their practice with openness and empathy, taking a person-centered approach while integrating meditation, Gestalt methods, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) into their work. Ali’s clinical experience includes working with individuals living with disabilities, those managing mood disorders, and clients entering therapy to help process and manage major life transitions.

When life feels impossible, you deserve somewhere that can offer safety, care, and empowerment to help you face the challenges of this world. Our mission at Prism Counseling & Advocacy is to give the LGBTQIA+ community a space to feel validated with clinicians who understand the difficulties our community is facing. We offer individual therapy, family therapy, couple/partner therapy, group therapy, and harm reduction services for both substance use difficulties and disordered eating. We believe in every persons right to live a full and beautiful life - with the right support and understanding we hope to make this a reality.

My goal is to help you create deeper wells of safety, strength, and joy through non-judgmental understanding of yourself and your environments, and exploring new patterns, experiences, and meanings. This can support you in changing, coping, and thriving where you want to. I approach my work with humility, respect, and a genuine desire to connect. I see therapy as a way to help ourselves navigate the complex web of personal, social, and relational dynamics that shape our lives. These dynamics can be helpful and harmful, and are often interlocking and rooted in ways we have learned to keep ourselves safe and find our joy.

Healthy relationships with ourselves and others are some of the greatest indicators of overall well-being. We are hardwired for connection, and some of our most profound healing experiences and deepest emotional wounds happen with those closest to us. I use an attachment framework and trauma-informed lens to help you explore your attachment history, recognize your views of self and others, identify patterns that contribute to gridlock issues, and then work to communicate your needs in new ways that strengthen connection, trust, and security with yourself and in your present and future relationships.

I am a psychotherapist in New York City with over ten years experience in the field. In 2015, I received my master’s degree in Clinical Social Work from New York University, in 2021 I completed a four-year advanced training program in couples and family therapy at The Ackerman Institute in NYC, and this past year I completed Ken Hardy’s “Race and Racial Equity Train the Trainer” residency through the Eikenberg Academy for Social Justice. As a therapist, I offer a collaborative and integrative style that draws from relational-cultural, narrative, somatic, feminist, and mindfulness-based theories. I am LGBTQ-aware and affirming.

Healing starts when we know what to heal from, believe that we can heal, and connect with our inner and external resources to heal. As a relational therapist, I support individuals, couples and families in navigating life transitions and cross-cultural issues, managing mental health symptoms, processing shame, guilt, and loss, improving communication and intimacy, and addressing the impact of systemic oppression on our sense of self and our relationships. I'm committed to supporting BIPOC and LGBTQ+ community. Together we discover and embrace your authentic self, release your inner strengths for personal and relational growth.

The process of discovery in therapy occurs through a safe collaboration guided by your instincts. Working together, we will increase self-attunement, self-regulation, self-alignment, and self-compassion. I strive to offer a space that is open, curious, and aligned with your values. My clinical insights converge around questions of identity and development in regards to attachment, gender expression and sexuality. I offer a warm, supportive space through attention to the non-verbal and I listen for metaphors that invite meaning-making and self-reflection.