Therapists in Greenwich Village, New York, NY

I see people who: have what they want but they are not happy, they feel guilty about their happiness. Who struggle to see a vision of the future, who fear they will never have what they need. Who wonder if the problem is practical and real or if there is something they are doing - but asking these questions alone only makes things feel worse. Who feel too much or too little, who cry all the time or wish they could cry. Who can’t stop repeating the same mistakes because they at least provide momentary relief. Above all, who want to be at peace with themselves. I am a practitioner of Zen Buddhism and meditation.

I am a psychodynamic clinician working with adults and older adolescents. If you encounter problems in relationships, work, or other areas of your life, I can provide an empathic, experienced perspective to help you more fully understand the current issues, and to see if there are patterns outside of your awareness that are contributing to your difficulties. I address deeper causes of anxiety and depression, that are usually related to personal history. I see the aim of treatment as increased self-understanding and change.

Putting thoughts and emotions into words can have surprising and powerful results. There is a freedom in saying out loud what we have withheld or only said or ourselves. We begin to see our world from new perspectives, develop new ways of being in the world, and begin to make new choices. The purpose of a therapist is to be the person in your life undergoing this process with you, as a companion and guide. This is how I understand my work.

How do we become more fully ourselves, more fully present and alive to one’s thoughts and feelings, and better aware of our own unique creative potentials? The path to this can lead to myriad emotional dysregulation, anxiety, depression, confusion, indecision about career, substance misuse, and other slings and arrows from life. I offer psychoanalytic psychotherapy that explores ways to make positive change in your life. We can work on behavioral changes but also a deeper exploration of the origins of what makes you do the things you do.

Through careful listening and an empathic, honest approach I can help you feel better about yourself and your life. You may feel stuck in a job or relationship. You may want more from life but not know how to get it. You may be struggling with with the difficulties of parenthood or marriage. I can help with artistic, creative, or intellectual struggles, body issues, sexual problems, substance issues, imbalances of life and work, impulse control, past trauma, or even just a general lack of inspiration or motivation in life.

I work from a psychodynamic position, with the aim to raise the curiosity over behavioral patterns that do not fit with the way we think of ourselves. I work with adults from a diversity of backgrounds and I believe the strength of my approach lies in helping people to expand their understanding of complex issues, not only by listening to their explicit and implicit narratives, but also paying attention to dreams, body language, and to the experiences and images that arise during sessions. I use psychoanalytic theory as a lens to process what takes place—an approach that does not necessarily need a couch or multiple sessions a week.

We create personal narratives to make sense of our subjective experience of life. Embedded in our narrative, are the internalized images of ourselves that we draw on to explain our lives (e.g. unworthy, undesirable, shameful, superior, unappreciated etc.). In therapy we examine the images that so often lead us to make the unconscious choices that return us to the painfully familiar circumstances that have come to define our life. As we become aware of the ways in which our images have unwittingly influenced our choices, we will have the opportunity to make new choices that may better support living the life to which we aspire.

Many people experience struggles around depression, anxiety, relationship issues or lack of meaning and direction in life. These difficulties often relate to a background of patterns of thinking/feeling that interfere with our ability to live life fully. Through careful listening and discussion we will seek to understand these patterns This sets the stage for recognition and development of new patterns of living that seek engagement, recognition and embodiment. I am a licensed psychologist, Jungian analyst, co-founder and faculty member of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association.

I work with a wide range of clients, from college students to professionals. A large percentage of my practice is made up of individuals in the performing and creative arts. I find a psychological curiosity on the part of the client to be especially helpful in the process.

My approach to treatment is interactive and engaging. I find that clients appreciate and benefit from an active therapist that will help identify areas of difficulty and work on initiating changes rather than a passive, primarily listening approach to treatment. A comfortable fit between therapist and client is an essential part of successful work together. Consistent with that, I'm happy to do a phone consultation so you can get a sense of how I approach this process. In terms of insurance, if you have out-of-network benefits we should be able to make therapy affordable.

I'm a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst with more than 35 years of experience. My goal is to enable my clients to better understand themselves and their hidden emotional conflicts. Self-awareness and self-knowledge are empowering because our deepest desires for love, connectedness, and achievement are typically tangled up in bad feelings - like shame, guilt or anxiety -- that obstruct us from pursuing their fulfillment. These bad feelings are often based on unrealistic ideas, the residues of childhood experience. I work with clients to disentangle their vital wishes from these constraints so that they can live more authentic and creative lives.

I have been treating patients in psychotherapy for over 35 years. Therapy offers people help towards change, change towards the life they want. Yet,for various reasons, this life has not been attainable. My approach is to offer patients a safe, supportive, understanding environment in which they can explore their hopes and fears and the obstacles that get in their way of having a fuller, richer life.

I help people whose sense of themselves or prior life experiences has blocked their ability to access the power they have within to heal and get what they want out of life. My experience includes extensive work in the areas of work/career, sexuality, intimacy, sexual identity and recovery. In addition, I help people work through trauma, grief and illness. My clients include individual adult men and women, couples and families --gay, straight and transgender.

My name is Stephen McNulty. I'm a Licenced Clinical Social Worker and a psychoanalytically trained psychotherapist. I'm a graduate of New York University and hold an advanced Certificate in Clinical Social Work. I'm also a graduate of the Washington Square Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.

No matter how fortunate you may be, still human life is difficult. Despite your best efforts, at times life's stresses can be too much: you may be overwhelmed. Hurt, fear, guilt, anger, shame, grief: feeling bad can alert you to where the trouble lies, or add to your emotional burdens. Confusion, isolation, loneliness, restlessness, worry, despair, or addictive attempts to find relief - all of these painful states are attempts to ward off problems or fix what's wrong, but they can also make things worse.

Listening defines my approach to your treatment. A major difference in working with a psychoanalyst as opposed to other mental health practitioners is the careful, consistent, deep attention a psychoanalyst gives to listening. Change can occur because the first emphasis of this treatment is understanding, rather than feeling pressured to "do" something. Psychoanalysts develop this skill by engaging in extensive institute training beyond that required for their license. My goal is for you to achieve substantive, durable change through a collaborative approach to understanding the deeper meanings and causes of problems you face.

My ideal client is a couple who are interested in staying together but need help dealing with some rough patches -unfaithfulness, excessive fighting and conflict, destructive communication and behavioral patterns, difficulties coping with stress, love life problems, anxiety, depression, jealousy- in a constructive way. A couple who doesn't want to give up on their relationships and is willing to make some efforts to improve their relationship and resolve their difficulties. My ideal client is the one who wants to help him/herself or a significant other overcome barriers holding them back from dealing with themselves and others effectively.

Usually we seek psychotherapy because we have come to realize that the emotional pain we suffer is a recurrent problem which we are unable to resolve on our own. The enduring consequences of deprivation, trauma, and conflict limit who we are in our relationships and our work. My training and experience enables me to help you, initially by alleviating your immediate distress, and over time by relating to your deeper concerns.

I specialize in individual and couples therapy, particularly for people negotiating midlife crises and transitions. I can help you to understand yourself and other people better, and to find meaning for yourself in midlife and beyond. I give a regular talk at NYU School of Medicine on coping effectively with midlife challenges. I've also published a recent journal article on midlife issues in the Psychoanalytic Review, Oct. 2019: "Generativity and Its Viscissitudes." For couples work, broadly speaking, I have experience working with nonconventional relationships, and am queer, kink, and CNM/poly friendly.