Relationship Issues Therapists in Brooklyn, NY

I am a NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor and NYS Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 25+ years of experience working with individuals, couples, and groups. I use guided imagery, and techniques for developing hopefulness. I also use more traditional insight modes of treatment. I also work through Headway which enables many clients to obtain insurance coverage. Please see my profile at headway.co/providers/tina-kahn for more information.

I believe that hurt, disappointment, sadness and grief are a normal part of the human experience. However, we often turn this hurt inward and create even more painful beliefs about ourselves and the world. I create genuine relationships with the people I work with, helping them to address and remove barriers that prevent them from more meaningful, authentic, and purposeful lives. I offer curiosity, new ideas and techniques while helping my clients identify and shift patterns that no longer serve them.

Are you an immigrant or child of immigrants stuck in painful relationships over clashing expectations and feeling unseen? Are you the “high achiever” or “caretaker” but have to hide parts of yourself and can’t shake the underlying fear that something isn’t right? Are you curious about how intergenerational experiences influence your identities, decisions, and struggles? You may have sought relief from the conflict, anxiety, and shame but not in the healthiest ways. You may finally be considering therapy to stop avoiding, stop suffering, and start healing. You’ve come to the right place.

As you embark on the courageous path of self-discovery and healing from trauma, connecting with a caring, collaborative, skillful therapist is a crucial first step. With years of experience, I offer a warm, reflective, and compassionate safe space for you to explore your deep inner feelings/emotions, and become aware of thoughts, beliefs, behavior patterns that may no longer serve you. If you have been suffering from anxiety, depression, self-sabotaging thoughts, overwhelming emotions, psychosomatic symptoms, and relationship challenges, I invite you to reach out for support and guidance—and not to struggle or suffer alone.

Do you long to grow but feel stuck? I offer support with empathy and curiosity, as you move through old feelings, bring attention to your present bodily experience, and build trust within yourself. Some of the issues I work with are anxiety, depression, and life transitions, as well as grief and loss. I’m an LGBTQ-affirming clinician and have experience working with issues particular to LGBTQ+ folks. I will reflect and validate your internal life and external experience, notice what might be happening in the moment, and encourage self-reflection. I work with adults and adolescents.

I provide a warm and empathic environment for exploration while constantly encouraging you to integrate new insights, try different approaches, and change repetitive patterns. I will particularly encourage you to focus on your emerging goals with regard to work, relationships, and the pursuit of joy. Together we will continually monitor your progress and motivation for change. I encourage the exploration of existential questions with the goal of helping you to find deeper fulfillment in your work and relationships.

Psychotherapy can be a powerful vehicle for change, for both individuals and couples. I work to create a trusting and collaborative relationship in therapy from which we can together identify or clarify your difficulties and begin to envision and create new possibilities.

Adriana has extensive experience working with families and adults with interpersonal and life transition challenges. These include stressors related to parenting challenges, divorce, infidelity, and trauma. In a safe space she supports clients in addressing symptoms of depression, anxiety and trauma. Using an empathic approach, she helps clients develop insight and solutions toward healing and emotional wellness.

Children/adolescents: Childhood can be a challenging time and, because children lack the experience and internal resources that adults have, they often express themselves through their behaviors. As a parent it can be hard to understand your child's behaviors or how to address them. In my practice I create a warm, fun, and safe environment and work to establish a trusting relationship so that we can explore your child’s thoughts and feelings. I work collaboratively with parents to help them gain insights into their child's behaviors and how to effectively meet their child’s needs.

Do you feel like you question yourself all the time, think of yourself as a failure, or not trust your relationships? I help individuals and couples to overcome cycles of doubt through a focused, non-judgmental approach to therapy. Self-doubt can cause us to lose trust ourselves, damage our relationships and careers, lead us to act in ways untrue to who we aspire to be, and can bring us to a place of shame. It can lead us to stagnation or being controlled by our fears. If you are looking to change how you feel about yourself or in your relationship, our work together can be the first step in that process.

I feel privileged to enter in to a therapeutic relationship with my clients where trust is established, feelings are honored, and pain is explored and healed. I believe wholly in the therapeutic value of feeling heard and understood. My aim with clients is to foster a positive and supportive relationship that provides the skills necessary to create happy and healthy relationships in their lives.

Hi! I’m Victoria Mancini, a Psychotherapist & Creative Arts Therapist serving the state of New York through telehealth. A collaborative relationship is the foundation of my practice. Therapy can be challenging enough already! I want you to feel comfortable to “come as you are” and leave feeling supported & heard. It is my goal for you to better understand your feelings and how they affect your body, to develop the confidence to speak your truth, advocate for yourself and find the joy in being your own unique & authentic self

My approach to therapy is collaborative, strengths-based, and human-centered. Equal parts warm and direct, I am intentional about creating a space free from judgment where you can feel both supported and challenged as we navigate issues in lockstep with one another. Above all, I feel that a strong relationship between therapist and client is essential for effective therapy and growth. It's a priority of mine to ensure that the time we share is co-created, allowing our sessions to feel safe, relevant, and useful.

People who come to therapy want a safe place to openly discuss problems or recurring themes in their lives that they don’t feel they can talk about fully and freely with other people. But they don’t just want to talk. They want active help thinking through where things have gone wrong, where their blind-spots might be, and what they can do to get to a better place – a place that not only feels livable, but actively good. They want to have good relationships, self-respect and self-esteem, a sense of optimism and bravery, and a feeling that they can take on whatever the world throws at them.

Together, we can examine issues that are troubling you. Relationship difficulties and matters that make you feel depressed or anxious can be addressed in psychotherapy. I am especially interested in helping you understand and resolve troublesome behavior patterns, stresses about racial and ethnic identity, and sexuality. Navigating life's challenges - whether it's a relationship disappointment, illnesses, loss or injustices - are often too painful to address alone. Together, we will work to restore your hope, self-confidence and develop a winning spirit to use when encountering future obstacles.

If you are someone who wants to make changes in your life but find you cannot do it alone, you may need a partner to help you achieve your goals. Psychotherapy is a path towards change, towards becoming the person you want to be. If you struggle with life's decisions, depression, anxiety, relationship worries, you may gain insight and personal strength through psychotherapy. When you make the choice for working in psychotherapy, it is a choice toward greater insight and pleasure in your life again. Psychotherapy will give you more personal freedom, more options to reach your goals.

It feels like you and your partner are speaking different languages. You say something, and they misunderstand. They reply, and you misinterpret that. There's a language barrier, and something is getting lost in translation. You feel unheard, alone, and unsure of what to do. You want so badly to explain to your partner how you feel and have them truly understand where you’re coming from. This cycle of misinterpretation has become so predictable that you’ve stopped talking about anything real in your relationship. You avoid each other and behave more like roommates than partners. You’d like to get back to feeling seen and connected.

I provide a safe, welcoming place to bring your thoughts and feelings, inner conflicts and concerns and your hopes for change. We will work together to understand patterns that no longer serve you and may be contributing to emotional pain. Whether you have issues around intimacy, relationships, parenting, work dissatisfaction, overcoming creative blocks or overwhelming feelings that keep you from creating a richer, more purposeful life, therapy can be life changing. For children, play therapy in addition to talk can help get to the root of difficult behavior in conflicts with peers, at school and with family.

As a psychodynamic therapist, I believe that developing an understanding of and respectful appreciation for the origins of one’s difficulties can make space for new, more flexible and fulfilling ways of being to emerge. I strive to cultivate a safe environment wherein individuals can explore unformulated experiences and lesser known parts of themselves. My therapeutic style is warm, collaborative, and responsive to the specific needs and goals of each person. I also hold that a strong therapeutic relationship can powerfully facilitate psychological growth and change.