Therapists in Brooklyn, NY

Sometimes it’s the feeling that something is missing from your life, the vague emptiness. Other times it seems as if you are constantly treading water, and getting through each day appears to be impossible. People come to me for a myriad of reasons. I am experienced in working with anxiety, depression, OCD, ADHD, personality disorders, parenting, adolescents, couples, women’s issues, and people who want to improve their lives. Counseling helps you explore new avenues, enabling you to find your strengths and open up possibilities. My hope is to empower you to be captain of your own ship, and discover your many strengths.

My aim is to help you connect with your hopes, desires, and internalized concepts and to work with you to help you create a more full awareness of yourself. I create space and ask questions that may allow you to, first, notice your existing personal narrative and identify how authentic that feels to you before working together to get curious about new, more empowering responses. I collaborate in this exploration with special attention to the strengths that have brought you this far. I can offer help navigating well-being in relationships, understanding past experiences, and the impacts of culture and other forces on your life.

Therapy is an opportunity for growth and healing. Each client is unique and therapy is tailored in partnership to identify your needs, develop mutually agreed upon goals and consider what can be most helpful. You may be dealing with challenging life situations and are looking for understanding and ways to develop effective coping strategies that provide relief. As an experienced clinical social worker I welcome working with children, teens and adults to promote healing and restore hope.

I specialize in couples, children, and adults. Good long-term relationships encounter increasing difficulties over time. It becomes harder to make progress on even minor problems. Each person believes their partner could make a few relatively easy adjustments - for example, to modify their tone of voice, to spend less time on their phone, to initiate shared activities - and the fact that they don't seems unfair and even like a deliberate provocation. I help couples understand and begin to untangle the traps in their relationship, using tools that will be useful in the years to come.

Change is an inevitable facet of life. Although some changes may be welcome, others may evoke feelings of fear, sadness, or even despair. Be it the loss or rupture of important relationships, upsets in one's career or academics, or taking on new roles and/or responsibilities; changes like these can be challenging. However, they may also present opportunities for deep self-reflection and personal growth.

Some come to therapy to address feelings of sadness, emptiness, anxiety, or grief. Others come in the midst of or just after a major life transition that has left them feeling lost, alone, or directionless. And still others come simply wanting a better understanding of self. Whether you find yourself in transition or stagnant, overwhelmed or numb, trapped or out of control, I welcome you to my practice.

Self-exploration, healing, and growth are both important and deeply personal. My approach to therapy is rooted in the understanding that who you are matters. Whether you are struggling with change, depression or anxiety, or seeking therapy for other reasons, I am here to engage with you in warm, validating treatment and guidance. My aim is to help you feel empowered, manage struggles, reduce harm, build effective coping skills and relationships, and thrive. Together we will honor your unique life experience and efforts toward personal growth.

Hi, I'm Jessica Lauro. I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 4 years of clinical experience. I provide psychotherapy with mindfulness guidance to help clients treat, manage, and work through anxiety, depression, OCD, ADD/ADHD, panic disorder, grief/loss, marriage issues, family issues, reconciliations, divorce, self-esteem issues, and many more. I use a mix of Acceptance and Commitment (ACT), Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral (CBT), Dialectical (DBT), and Experiential Therapy. I believe that respect and care are always thoughtfully maintained as a standard in my therapy practice.

As a licensed mental health counselor with over 16 years in the counseling field, I understand the importance of living a joyful life. I believe that the key to a successful therapeutic relationship is in the connection made. Finding a therapist you can connect with makes all of the difference in allowing you to open up and grow as a person. My hope is that I can connect with you and that we can work in a safe environment to help you deal with any issues in your life. My approach is holistic, collaborative, and based on acceptance and compassion.

I believe that a trusting and engaged relationship between the therapist and client provides a safe space for exploration and change. I am genuine and warm, offering trauma-informed psychotherapy to children, teenagers and adults with a strong emphasis on an integrative approach towards wellbeing, fostering healing and growth through both the mind and body. I specialize in trauma recovery, identity issues, anxiety, and depression. I work to empower individuals and families to identify and utilize their inherent strengths to navigate obstacles and interpersonal challenges.

Feeling held back? Facing demanding life situations? Having frequent and prolonged feelings of stress and difficulty in regulating emotions? Many of us face unparalleled challenges in our daily life. In therapy, we will actively seize unique opportunities to bring clarity to your inner thoughts, feelings and hopes. Working collaboratively, I can help you engage in new and fulfilling ways of thinking about yourself and your relationships.

AGAPE Family Therapy and Coaching assist members through individual, family, and group therapy and life coaching in order for self-discovery, self-liberation, restorative healing, and authentic connection to themselves, their identified families, and communities. We offer teletherapy services to all individuals.

I am a clinical psychologist who combines my 30 years’ experience in learning disabilities, executive skill assessment, and psychotherapy to help children, teens and parents figure out solutions to school related difficulties. Coping with school frustration often leads to anxiety and so my psychotherapy practice includes treatment of anxiety disorders and parent support. I provide consultations and neuropsychological assessments for parents seeking a new school setting for their child’s specific needs. After working many years with high school students, my practice includes counseling for providing skills for transition to college

I offer a non-judgmental and reflective space to process and explore, with the goal of developing understanding and initiating change. I approach the work with a fundamental belief that a range of experiences, both big and small, can have lasting impacts on our development and worldview. Difficult experiences and painful relationships can affect our connection with our bodies, our identities, and our sense of worth. As we begin to heal our relationship with ourselves, we can expand the ways in which we show up in our lives.

I work in private practice with individuals and couples who seek to improve their emotional wellbeing and quality of life. My specialties include include treatment of anxiety, depression, relationship issues, self esteem, substance abuse, and couples work. I practice through a relational, psychodynamic, collaborative approach with clients in my office on the Upper West Side of NYC. I charge on a sliding scale and am flexible with fee based on the individual financial needs of my clients. I am open to working through facetime/google chat/skype sessions.

It takes significant strength to take the first step in initiating a connection with a therapist. I view all clients as experts of their own experience and I will follow your lead in establishing a treatment plan that will bring you closer to your personal goals. My experience as a trauma therapist includes 10 years of providing supportive services to survivors of crime and interpersonal abuse, as well as individuals impacted by depression and/or anxiety. I have 5 years of experience providing clinical supervision to other clinicians including rising social workers and seasoned trauma-focused providers.