Sleep or Insomnia Therapists in Monsey, NY

Christine Havekost is a licensed clinical social worker. Christine has been treating patients since 1996 and strives to make her patients feel comfortable and safe. She encourages her patients to confront their challenges and supports them through this process, exploring the issues in their lives and pursuing their goals. Christine’s ultimate goal is to motivate patients so they feel able to build on their strengths and enrich their lives. Christine’s style in the session is informal and interactive. She likes to use a problem-solving approach.

I work with people of all ages to face challenges and conquer difficulties in a warm and supportive environment. I have over twenty years of experience helping people feel less anxious, sad, and alone, and more capable and empowered to live their best lives. I specialize in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), which is a therapeutic approach proven effective in the treatment of a wide range of problems, from anxiety, depression and trauma to children’s behavior and positive parenting. If you are struggling, or simply want to handle life and stress more effectively, I am here to help. Together, we can work to create lasting change.

Being a human on this planet may bring difficulties that can impact how we live, how we love, how we work, and how we play. Life's challenges, losses, and traumas may have left you feeling lost, alone, disconnected, stuck, and unable to live to your fullest capacity, in spite of your best efforts. Challenges can exist in many areas: relationships, work, sense of identity, how you live in the world, even how you live in your own body. Sometimes you need a professional and non-judgmental ally to assist with restoring and preserving emotional and relational well-being, so that you can live more fully and authentically in the world.

You want things to change in your life, but you don't know how to make that happen. You feel confused and frustrated and wish the struggle would simply disappear. Maybe something doesn't feel right, but you aren't sure why. Perhaps you've already tried to reach out for help and nothing seems to work. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, I can offer a compassionate and authentic space where you can sort through your inner world. Together we will explore your thoughts, emotions, wishes, reactions, memories, strengths and everything else that makes you uniquely you.

The marriage feels "meh." Your love and commitment are strong, but something is off. Talking about it hasn't helped. It just leads to more arguing, pain, and resentment. It feels like things are getting worse. You both desperately want to fix it. Because as much as you love each other, you can't sign up to keep doing this for the next decade and beyond. Something has to change. And in your bones, you know it can be how you are in your marriage. It’s time to renew your relationship.

My ideal client is ready to try something new in the face of OCD and anxiety challenges. If you are a parent of a child or adolescent struggling with OCD, or struggling with OCD or anxiety yourself, it can be overwhelming to find the specialized support and guidance that you are looking for.

Do you feel out of sorts, weighed down, stressed by everyday life or by some specific issues that you don't seem to be able to resolve? I can help you identify what is getting in your way and preventing you from fulfilling your aspirations and reaching your goals. I'll help you focus on the alterations needed so your life becomes happy, serene and exciting. It is often how we think that prevents us from finding solutions. Talking things out with an empathic other helps, and friends do. But they often project themselves into your situation and give you advice from THEIR perspective . A good therapist sees things through YOUR eyes.

Serving Bergen/Rockland Counties and Manhattan, I bring 30 years as a psychotherapist, 25 years as a family and couples therapist, and 20 years of practicing behavioral and physical rehabilitation medicine and years of contemplative and body art practices (YTT200) to a psychology practice that incorporates evidenced-based treatments with contemporary psychoanalytic practices and body/mind perspectives. Therapy works with mind, body, and between ourselves and others in a relationship that frees the creative potential for healing, discovering new inspiration for transforming self, work and relationships.

I AM CURRENTLY ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS.***Do you suffer from anxiety whether it's Covid-19 related or worldly day to day pressures? Do you have children who are struggling with school or interpersonal conflicts? Are you a teenager who people "don't get" and you just feel lost and alone in the world, and can't seem to allow anybody in, no matter how hard you try? Are you a parent who is having difficulty in getting through to your kids, and feeling overwhelmed? Are you looking for clarity and perspective? Look no further, Hope is here!

Birth and motherhood are meant to be addictive. Yet so many of us feel anxious in pregnancy, experience birth trauma and struggle postpartum. In a culture where mothers are not supported, and the system prioritizes "safety" above all, women are often left stuck in survival stress after birth of their child. But please know that healing, love, and joy is available for you. Whether you wish to process and integrate your birth experience, prepare for the transition to the new role, or address your hopes and needs in pregnancy or postpartum, I am here to walk alongside and hold space for you as you navigate the perinatal journey.

My ideal client is trying to understand not only the root causes that created a less than optimal life functioning emotionally, socially, occupationally, academically, or intrafamilially, but the actual cognitive behavioral steps to remedy the problem. I believe most problems we encounter in our everyday lives can be improved upon and transformed into a life we have chosen.

My goal is to create a nonjudgmental environment and a safe place to share all of life’s stressors. Specializing in all areas of discomfort and struggles. Discover you inner balance between vulnerability and making the right choices! Take a mindful and soulful approach to making your life better with future awareness of your issues at hand. Focus on mental health with an option to holistically focus on mind, body, and soul as one entity. If we treat it all we receive the maximum mental health experience because one affects the other. Individual, couples, sex, CBT, DBT, and somatic, adhd, bipolar, and personality disorders addressed.