Therapists in 10010

Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's part of what it means to be alive. (Murakami). Loss is a part of life - of loved ones, hopes and dreams, relationships, a sense of safety. If you’ve lost your sense of self, I can help you return to yourself. If you’ve lost your professional mojo, I can guide you to rediscover it. I provide a holding space for you so you can move forward with strength and optimism, and eventually find meaning, growth and a renewed sense of purpose. Remember - there is no way out but through.

I am a Licensed Master Social Worker in the State of New York and earned Bachelor of Science degrees in Psychology and Neuroscience from Syracuse University, where I also earned a Master of Social Work degree. As a licensed therapist focused on providing comprehensive mental health care, I have worked in a variety of settings including community mental health clinics, non-profit organizations, private practice, academic settings, and clinical research.

I work with people struggling with anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma after unexpected life events. Through my eclectic approach, clients gain a new perspective and free themselves from self-defeating thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Reframing is powerful. It empowers clients to choose a different way to look at their situation so they can find self compassion, acceptance, and peace. As an African American woman, I also understand how race and ethnicity play a factor in mental health. My practice offers strategies addressing racial stress and microaggressions. Let’s find ways to respond, heal, and move forward.

Therapy is an education: the subject is you. If you want to learn how to better deal with your life stresses, you may be ready to enroll. I have been practicing psychotherapy in Manhattan for 30 years. I work with individuals and couples dealing with depression, stress and anxiety, grief and loss, and life transitions. I also perform psychological evaluations for potential participants in Donor Oocyte programs. I emphasize supportive and concrete psychotherapy techniques. I believe that together we can find solutions that will allow you to achieve greater fulfillment and peace through self-knowledge.

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.

Welcome. I seek to provide individuals and couples with an engaging and collaborative process. Aspiring to be curious and supportive as you identify & explore uncomfortable feelings, discordant self-beliefs, or painful relational dynamics that are keeping you from having more meaningful, enlivened, and loving connections to yourself and others. Navigating together, we will address areas, that may include love, family dynamics, internal conflict, issues of health, work, friendship, school, trauma, addiction, & loss. With couples' areas of exploration sex/intimacy, premarital counselling, financial issues, betrayal & fertility.

My mission is to guide people through loss and trauma toward acceptance and healing. Therapy isn't a space where we "fix ourselves," but rather where we find ourselves in our pain and discover how strong we are in the process. Going to therapy is self-empowerment. It means making a conscious decision to start exploring and accepting all parts of self so that you can feel empowered to live your best life. As a clinician, I meet each client where they are, honor their individuality and unique life experience, and co-create a space where they can feel—and heal—trauma, loss, and grief.

For almost 30 years as a psychoanalyst, my life work has led me to specialize with professionals from the fields of art, theater, spirituality and business. I have connected with like-minded people, sharing the unique perspectives and diverse background of my own past life careers as an actor, producer, chaplain and minister. Want to improve your relationships? Drawn to my specialization in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, individuals, couples and groups do just that, through eliminating addictions, resolving feelings of abandonment and career ambivalence, and overcoming fears of intimacy and/or sexual difficulties.

Psychotherapy provides an environment where you can learn about yourself and create change in your life. I work to provide a safe, comfortable, and confidential environment for my clients to begin to achieve their goals and to regain a sense of satisfaction with their lives. Through my direct and interactive approach we will work collaboratively to empower you to grow and become more aware.

I am a psychotherapist who will work in partnership with you to help you find happiness and fulfillment in life that you deserve. I practice in a supportive, sensitive, collaborative way. I listen, coach, and sometimes challenge you, always respecting you as an individual. You may feel stuck, embarrassed about your life circumstances, lost and not know what is eating away at you. This is normal and together we will uncover ways to resolve these and other uncomfortable feelings.

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." Life transitions can be difficult, but they can also be rewarding: An opportunity to grow and learn about yourself. Whatever challenges life may be presenting - a divorce, career change, retirement, the death or illness of a loved one, interpersonal relationships at work and at home - psychotherapy can be an invaluable aid in coping and thriving.

Sometimes at different times in our lives, we may be faced with challenges that momentarily derail us. That is normal. Whether it's because we're unhappy with ourselves, we've suffered a great loss or just because unfortunate things have happened, I believe therapy can help by allowing another person to bear witness to those issues in a safe non-judgmental environment and open the door to becoming a happier, healthier self. I am a licensed psychotherapist and psychoanalyst who can help you understand the issues that are troubling you or standing in your way of more fully experiencing life.

If you are ready to embark on a rewarding journey to the true essence of you, and create the life you desire and deserve, I invite you to my practice. It is time to release all that does not serve you and replenish with all that optimizes your experience here and now. "Happiness is your Birthright.' My years of experience and training can guide you there. Please feel free to find me on http://www.therapyandbeyondcenter.com/appointments where you can book directly and write to me at mburra@therapyandbeyondcenter.com should you have any additional questions.

Currently accepting new clients. Our greatest accomplishments involve conquering our fears and insecurities. I integrate psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral therapy and somatic experiencing therapy to empower clients with self-awareness, insights, and skills necessary to overcome their maladaptive patterns and achieve the lives they desire. As someone who has been on this journey myself, my passion and purpose is to guide others down this path.

I adapt my working methods to the needs of each individual who applies for psychotherapy; supporting someone in understanding a crisis event such as divorce, loss of a loved person or pet, or unusual stress or trauma. I work psychoanalytically when the therapy reaches a deeper level. My overall preference is to work with adults who are ready to sit down and commit to the interplay of understanding themselves at close range. Often this need arises during times of crisis and that is always a good time for beginning this life affirming process.

As a philosophical counselor, I utilize philosophical tools and theories to help my clients rationally address common issues that arise in life, and in doing so, learn to think more clearly, critically and deeply about them. Most of the issues we face every day are not pathological—they are not the result of mental illness—but rather just a part of life. These include questions about what career to pursue, or how to deal with a relationship issue, or how to find meaning in your life, or cope with the loss of a loved one, or resolve an ethical dilemma or to get clear on what fundamental values one holds or ought to hold.

Woman to Woman Psychiatry: Mental health across the lifespan. I am a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner who is ANCC board certified and a former Certified Nurse Midwife, with over 30 years of experience. My specialty is in women’s mental health throughout the reproductive and menopausal years. I work with women struggling with emotional symptoms at every stage of childbearing; preconception through pregnancy, postpartum, lactation, and menopause. Although I use psychotherapy and psychopharmacology, my treatment philosophy centers on treating the whole person utilizing complementary and integrative health techniques.

My first goal in working with individuals and couples is to provide a non-judgmental, accepting and affirming space. Through our unique therapeutic alliance, you will develop awareness around the thoughts, feelings and behaviors that have perhaps made life feel unmanageable. We will develop strategies based on various modalities which have proven to be successful in bringing positive change. Together we will create a picture of what a meaningful life looks like for you and we will work together to manifest it into reality.

In my twenties, I saw a therapist who was completely silent (the traditional way) and wasn’t helpful at all. Then I saw another who was intellectually and emotionally “there” and changed my life. He inspired me to become a psychotherapist and to practice in a collaborative way that lands with my patients.