Trauma and PTSD Therapists in Flatiron, New York, NY

Do you feel alone with your problems, or stuck in patterns of behavior that are self defeating? Or perhaps you would like to feel more comfortable in intimate relationships. Trauma , anxiety, or depression may be getting in the way of your happiness and growth. A skilled, compassionate psychotherapist can help you calm your fear-driven brain and gain the relational skills needed for peace, clarity, and relationships that endure.

I have a passion and commitment to serve adolescents, adults, and partners throughout New York State via telehealth. I provide safe, affirming, trauma informed therapy, and my therapeutic style is relational, emotion focused, systemically informed, and includes a mind-body connection framework. I work with clients to collaborate on goals which may include but are not limited to developing further insight and awareness, harnessing self compassion, navigating relationship dynamics and interpersonal boundaries, managing mental health symptoms, improving communication, self advocacy and adjusting coping mechanisms.

*Email only to join waitlist* You are more than your symptoms, you are a person who is seeking fulfilment. I am a psychotherapist, complex trauma specialist and Certified EMDR practitioner. I strive to provide clients with the best possible therapeutic care through understanding each person in the context of their own unique culture, values and life experiences. I use multiple integrative healing techniques based on the client's individual needs. My doctoral research at NYU has enriched my understanding of attachment injury acquired through adverse childhood events and the treatment of complex layered trauma in adulthood.

I practice holistic, body centered, trauma informed psychotherapy. I seek to create a collaborative, safe, creative space to catalyze growth. I have experience working with young adults and adolescents suffering from anxiety, sexual trauma and depression. I utilize modalities with individuals 10 and older that incorporate a mind-body connection to help instill presence, newfound self-awareness, and empowerment. I also incorporate Somatic, Expressive Arts Therapy techniques to facilitate self exploration and discovery. I take a psychodynamic approach to help you recognize your ability to evolve and grow.

Sometimes it is difficult to adjust to or understand what is happening in your life and how you feel. It is often moments or seasons of change that make us feel alone, overwhelmed, hopeless, or numb to trauma and chronic stress, but these can be transformed into positive change. My main goal is to help you make sense of or minimize these feelings and identify and remove barriers to living a fulfilling life.

As a psychologist, I help people address their struggles and reach their potential. I pay careful attention to the establishment of a safe, trusting environment where people feel heard, seen, and supported. I have come to recognize the issues that come along with our attempts to cope with challenges that life presents. We often use strategies that might have been useful in the past and are less helpful now. These patterns--many of which are not in our immediate awareness--are multilayered and as such, present as portals for us to access the enormous field of potential for lasting change which we aim to access collaborativelly.

I blend 25 years of years of experience and training with psychodynamic, somatic (mind/body integration), gestalt and the expressive arts, to work with individuals, couples and families and specialize in relationships, anxiety disorders, addiction, life/career transitions, PTSD and developmental trauma .My training in Somatic Experiencing enables me to address trauma at its bodily source -an inside out approach that cognitive approaches can’t access. My belief in our human drive for wholeness extends to my extensive work with individuals and families impacted by addiction, a fundamental disconnect of mind, body and spirit.

My clients are as diverse as as the challenges and motivations that bring them into therapy. The common thread that unites them (other than having excellent taste in therapists) is a bold desire to change and a passion (perhaps that needs rekindling) to live an authentic and meaningful life. I’ve worked with artists struggling to connect or reconnect with their muse, folks facing homelessness, athletes striving for peak performance, and college students struggling to matriculate- people facing serious cross roads who need someone to walk with them through the process. Or maybe you just want to feel better! I am here for all of it!

Are you a highly sensitive person, who easily understands the feelings of others…yet you often feel misunderstood? Drawing upon my practice experience in trauma -informed care and behavioral health, along with a creative background in yoga and art therapy, I help people struggling with mental health and identity issues. Together, we will creating a safe space that encourages the exploration of feelings, and the formation of a new story founded on personal strength, hope, and resilience.

The world can be a complicated, confusing, and really overwhelming place, and we all develop our own ways of coping. Sometimes we reach a point where we realize some of our strategies need to change. I strongly believe that removing the shame and stigma associated with certain coping mechanisms and behaviors is integral to adjusting them. I work with clients to identify, and have compassion for, why they enact certain responses, behaviors, and patterns, and develop new ones that meet their current needs and desires.

I work with clients wanting to address a range of concerns, including anxiety, depression, trauma , relationship difficulties, substance use, work stresses, and life transitions. I work with clients from all walks of life, and I welcome the opportunity to learn more about their unique background, experiences, and perspective. People are naturally healthy and vibrant. However, our access to that vibrancy can become blocked as we adjust to life's challenges. I work to help my clients gain clarity into how and why they have lost access to meaningful parts of themselves and move towards a life that feels more connected and alive.

The National Institute for the Psychotherapies offers affordable, high quality psychodynamic psychotherapy both in-person and online via telehealth. Therapy is designed to help with a range of problems that affect us throughout our lives. Currently we meet with many people deeply impacted by living through the collective and individual challenges of the COVID pandemic. We also offer help with depression, anxiety, relationship issues, childhood abuse, guilt/shame, trauma , PTSD , job loss or job changes, college life, and any other changes that may be happening in your life.

Do you want to overcome depression or anxiety and feel confident? Are you struggling with relationships? Do you find yourself getting angry quickly? Sometimes life transitions get difficult to manage. I have been helping people with these problems for 10 years and we can work collaboratively and holistically. We will focus on physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of your life. We will figure out your best qualities and strengths, your personal resources and virtues to realize your true potential that will help you heal.

Is therapy right for you? Creating change in your life can be difficult, but tremendously rewarding. As a licensed psychotherapist with a holistic perspective, I work with adults and couples to address problems with troubling issues such as anxiety, depression, trauma and grief. Concerns with sexuality, sexual identity, and relationships are areas where I am experienced. I have a particular interest in resolving inhibitions and insecurities that are barriers to creative expression and successful relationships. Artists, writers, performers, and others for whom creativity is an important aspect of their life, if not their career, are welcome.

Therapy is an ongoing process of curiosity that takes a willingness to be vulnerable, and vulnerability is a learned strength. Your expertise on your experiences combined with my clinical knowledge creates a relationship where you have the space to intentionally explore yourself. I work with clients facing trauma , substance abuse and misuse, relatioship stress, domestic and sexual violence as well as anxiety, depression, and life transitions. It can be so helpful to have a place where you can express yourself without fear, and in that space you can learn to live from a place of authenticity and trust when life has gotten in the way.

Think of how good it would feel to have a day that is set up for you where you spend your time doing things that nourish your interests and tap into your talents, a life where you genuinely feel so connected to others and the work that you’re doing that it doesn’t even feel like work but like flow instead. Where joy and fun are an accessible norm, and you feel grounded, centered and confident in yourself. This is a true possible reality for you, one that can be reached through actionable steps. If you’re wanting to move forward in life, trust that inner knowing. It's the first step in guiding you to the life you're meant to have.

Looking into therapy is a big step and I am happy to assist you in your journey. Life doesn't come with a manual which I believe it should. I would love to work with you to develop your personal life manual.