Therapists in New York, NY

I specialize in working with lesbian and gay clients. I help clients manage stress, build relationships and enhance communication skills by providing short term psychotherapy and couples counseling. My goal is to listen, understand and support clients so that they feel their own inner strength and no longer need my services.

We can all live rewarding, empowered lives. As someone with multiple intersecting identities, I understand the horrific effects of trauma, stigma, and mental/emotional health. I seek to establish a comfortable environment in which we can safely ask questions to help you make empowered decisions while we simultaneously investigate questions of meaning. I never require a client ‘prove’ their identity to me.

I am an empathetic therapist who views each person through his/her own unique lens, which allows me a better understanding of what you feel. This belief has allowed me to serve a diverse population which includes adults, adolescents, gay, lesbian, and seniors. The goal is to help you ultimately achieve a more rewarding, peaceful, and meaningful life.

I believe that healing is a collaborative endeavor that requires honest caring without judgment, and cooperatively assists my clients in clarifying their goals for treatment. Rather than adopting one methodology for all individuals and issues, I draw from a variety of methods to create a tailored approach for each individual and situation. As a therapist, I am warm, open, encouraging, and direct. I considers myself an active therapist, combining experience, education, creativity, and sense of humor with a down-to-earth, realistic approach to counseling.

Sexuality is so challenging to talk about for most people that getting to the point where you are online this minute searching for a therapist comfortable talking about it with you is a major success. Even if you get no further than this sentence right now, you have already overcome a monumental hurdle, you will be able to do it again, and your next search will be easier. The path to sexual fulfillment can be grueling to navigate alone, and I am happy to explore whatever is on your mind regarding your sexuality, be it pleasure challenges, trauma, sexual or gender identity, non-monogamy, kink, addiction, and everything in between.

My postgraduate studies and extensive experience have given me confidence to treat many types of people. Thus far, I have successfully treated thousands of people, individually, in couples and group in psychotherapy. My style is to be interactive and supportive, listening carefully and providing a safe and secure atmosphere for you to discuss your special concerns and conflicts.

I am a compassionate, authentic, and concerned psychologist with over 30 years of experience treating adults, adolescents, and seniors. My specialties include narcissism, men's issues, marriage and relationship counseling, gay and lesbian treatment, and parent counseling. The bulk of my practice is individual psychotherapy. I provide a safe and nurturant environment with a cognitive behavioral approach combined with a dose of humor. I accept Aetna and Blue Cross but my services are available for out of network reimbursement.

I am a Gestalt therapist and an executive coach in New York City. I am committed to helping my clients achieve their goals by providing a partnership that facilitates deeper awareness, leading to a new sense of empowerment and change.

People often ask me "How do you listen to people's problems all day?" I am inspired by the people I meet who often have difficult backgrounds and lives, yet are willing to work hard to grow and be happy, healthy, human beings. I am touched by their commitment and dedication to work on themselves instead of being angry, miserable people. What more important investment is there than investing time and energy in oneself?

I have deep faith in what can be accomplished with therapy. Let's work together to understand the issues in your life that you want to resolve. My style is warm and empathic with an emphasis on deep listening and interactive communication. My experience includes working with personal and family relationships, career and professional growth, anxiety, depression, and managing chronic illness. Understanding your life-long patterns enhances our work together. You will gain emotional clarity, increasing awareness of your inner strengths and resources. Our work together is designed to help you feel more comfortable being who your are.

"I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood." - Audre Lorde. As people, we have a deep need to be understood, and one of the most profound ways to do this is in a safe, trusting therapeutic relationship. As a therapist, I work with individuals & couples using a psychodynamic approach. My role is to help you identify your needs and put your inner experience at the center, engaging both mind and body, so that barriers to your well-being can be lifted.

You are looking for help because you have reached a dead-end. Perhaps you are having trouble with an important relationship, or with your job. Perhaps you cannot get along with yourself. Whatever the difficulty, you realize at this point that you cannot sort things out on your own, and you are hoping that psychotherapy might help. I provide individual psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, a more intensive form of psychotherapeutic work. My job is to help you to find a way beyond the dead-end, so that you can ultimately move on from the limitations of your current situation.

Seeking a psychotherapist is often a decision made as a result of a crisis or when feeling a heightened level of personal discomfort. This decision takes strength, motivation and a desire to begin the process of exploration and development of greater personal insight and strategic ways of coping with existing circumstances. I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 30 years of experience working with adults who have sought therapy to assist them in; improving self esteem, management/reduction of anxiety, mood disorders, relationship/intimacy issues, and those who desired a greater understanding of their behaviors and feelings.

Psychoanalytic therapy is a mode of intensive listening that provides you with a protected space to say anything that comes to mind; it is a chance to explore thoughts and feelings that you previously have not been able to articulate to yourself and to others. Psychoanalysis is a unique, extraordinary relationship that facilitates the emergence of novel and surprising ways of seeing and thinking. Inhibitions and destructive conflicts in areas of creative pursuit, career, relationships, and sex dissipate, leading to new possibilities and experiences, and the alleviation of anxiety and suffering.

We are a private, group psychotherapy practice offering counseling services for adolescent, young adults, adults, and elder people. Clinical services are provided in Spanish and English. We accept Aetna and, Northwell as well as fee for service. Aldea is a Spanish word for "community" and we, at Aldea Counseling Services, seek to support the psychological and emotional needs of individuals and families as together we build a stronger community.

I practice gestalt therapy, a dynamic, holistic, and experiential therapy that helps people work through problems related to depression, anxiety, work, and relationships. My goal is to help clients appreciate and integrate all aspects of themselves. By focusing on here-and-now interaction and by bringing past experiences that interfere with current functioning to awareness, I encourage each individual's potential for creativity, growth, and change. I work with individuals, couples, and groups.

Are you feeling anxious or depressed? Do you find yourself feeling hopeless? Are you going through a difficult transition? Are you and your partner feeling emotionally distant from each other? Do you misunderstand each other and find it impossible to communicate without fighting? Are you and your partner having sex less frequently? You do not have to struggle alone. Asking for help is a sign of strength. As a compassionate and caring psychotherapist I offer you support in a safe environment free of judgment that will allow you to resolve your challenges, whether they are rooted in the past or they are present-day circumstances

I am an experienced psychotherapist in practice for over 30 years,who is a supportive, non judgmental listener. Working with couples and individuals, I have treated depression, anxiety, addiction, relationship issues, gender/sexual identity issues and coping with illness (with a specialization in breast cancer). My clients include straight, lesbian and gay individuals and couples. My educational background includes training as a psychoanalyst with a psychodynamic, interactive focus.

I aspire to create a safe, trusting, and non-judgmental environment that will allow you to explore and gain greater knowledge of yourself and your relationships. Through our therapeutic relationship we will identify the positive and negative patterns in your life, empowering you to make the necessary changes to meet your goals, both short and long term. I assist you in gaining insight and perspective so that new ideas and feelings can emerge and create desired changes.