Grief Therapists in Gramercy Park, New York, NY

What challenges is life presenting you with? Coping with academic pressures in and before college is difficult. Adjusting to college and emerging into a career, navigating dating and relationships, grief , and the pressures of work life can strain our sense of balance. Post-divorce, many adults struggle with establishing a new identity and navigating co-parenting. In therapy, you can process your experiences and build concrete tools that help you cope. You can find a path forward to live better, with less anxiety and more meaning. You can thrive and achieve your personal, academic, and career goals.

I work with parents of children who are difficult or who struggle with behavioral, developmental or sensory difficulties. My client-parent faces complex parenting challenges and emotional stresses that benefit from specialized, experienced, outside support and extra skills and tools. Follow me on instagram, @gailsinaitherapy. I also provide general psychotherapy for trauma, grief or transition.

I specialize in loss , trauma, family/relationship issues with children, adolescents and adults, in English or Spanish. I use integrative, strengths-focused, evidenced-based therapy. This means I believe that humans are inherently wired for resilience. In particular contexts, our former healthy coping skills may suddenly prevent us from returning to our adaptive core. In therapy, I urge clients to learn to experience and tolerate emotions and access their instinctive coping capacities to build flexibility. This method allows clients to uncover their strengths and deepen their sense of hope, leading lives with vitality and exuberance.

Are you thinking "if I had made different choices in my life, I would not be feeling so empty, lonely or worthless."? You may not even know where these feelings are coming from or why they continue to overwhelm you. Although you cannot change or erase the past, you can come to a place where you can learn to relate to and experience the past differently. You can begin to understand where your patterns, feelings and behaviors come from and how they play out in your life. You can start to feel like a worthwhile person deserving of happiness and love in your life.

Welcome, thanks for stopping by. Just by being here, you’re taking an important step in prioritizing your mental health care, and I’m so glad you are. Many of us are carrying the heavy burden of invisible challenges. Though they’re not noticeable—to others and sometimes even ourselves—they can make life feel more difficult, stressful, and at times unmanageable. I am here to offer you support, so you’re not carrying that load alone. In our work, you will set the tone, and I will be there to listen, foster a safe and judgment-free environment.

Welcome! I started Water & Stone to support people, such as yourself, in finding a therapist or therapy group that fits your current needs, budget, and availability. When we speak I'll listen to what has been going on in your life and brings you to therapy before talking through options and sharing more about each group or therapist. My goal is that you find the right fit for you, so you can begin to feel a shift or relief within the first session.

I work with people who are grieving. Grief can show up due to a variety of circumstances, including after a sexual assault, breakup, the loss of a job, or the death of a loved one. I also help clients struggling with identity and transitions, or who’ve had negative experiences impacting how they see themselves and the world. Sitting with difficult emotions after these events can be isolating. It's normal to feel lonely, scattered, anxious, depressed, or disconnected in the aftermath. Wherever you are on your journey, I'm here to support you along the way.

Are you looking for a therapist who understands the unique challenges inherent in family formation? Are you questioning how and whether to become parents? Are you in a foster or adoptive family and hope your therapist understands some of the issues specific to your situation? Are there missing pieces in your family history or have you learned new information via DNA testing? My practice is informed by my long-time focus on adoption. My focus is on understanding your story, connecting with you, recognizing your strengths, and helping you to determine how to tackle your challenges.

Do you struggle with feelings of anxiety or existential dread? Has self-doubt hindered you from developing more fulfilling personal or professional relationships? Are you wondering if you will ever heal from past wounds or losses? Feelings of empowerment, capability, and wholeness do not come easily to everyone, especially in the face of external and internal opposition. If you are looking to uncover and cultivate your innate strengths to meet your life's challenges and uncertainties, I want to take the next steps with you. Together, we will grow and harvest the depths of your self-compassion and curiosity to find a new way forward.

Therapy can be a place to define challenges, discover strengths, and find validation for your unique self. I have experience working with individuals and couples with themes including grief , loss , anxiety, depression, trauma, sexuality, infidelity, self esteem, and communication.

Everyday I am humbled by working with those who have the courage to look in the mirror and work on themselves. I view psychotherapy as an opportunity for growth no matter where you are in your life; whether seeking support in a time of crisis, suffering from a mental illness, working on relationships, or you are simply curious about who you are and how your mind works. My treatment approach is rooted in psychodynamic and relational frameworks although I tailor my technique to each client. I value change beyond symptom resolution but also to increase self awareness and individual growth.

Thank you for taking the time to check out my profile! Are you struggling with adoption or attachment related issues, relationship conflicts, grief , anxiety, work struggles or just general life things? I strive to create a warm, compassionate space where client's feel comfortable exploring and challenging their feelings and behavior patterns while facilitating growth and healing . We all need a space and a person to help us work through our concerns. Let me be that person.

I work with people struggling with anxiety, depression, grief , and trauma after unexpected life events. Through my eclectic approach, clients gain a new perspective and free themselves from self-defeating thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Reframing is powerful. It empowers clients to choose a different way to look at their situation so they can find self compassion, acceptance, and peace. As an African American woman, I also understand how race and ethnicity play a factor in mental health. My practice offers strategies addressing racial stress and microaggressions. Let’s find ways to respond, heal, and move forward.

Interrogating your thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and relationships to improve your quality of life requires bravery and commitment. I honor this bravery and commitment by creating a therapeutic environment where you’re fully accepted as your whole, authentic self so you can achieve long-term healing and change. My therapeutic work engages a wide range of clients, but I specialize in working with teens and young adults moving through relationship issues, grief , depression, or anxiety.

You’ve come a long way on your journey to find help. To get to this point, you might have had to push past stigma, criticism, toxic family relationships, or self-doubt. Even when depression, life transitions, trauma, or anger have seemed insurmountable, you’re here today, and that takes more strength than you might know. I support clients grieving losses of all kinds—whether that’s a breakup, death of a loved one, or end of a job. Bereavement often shuts out hope in jarring ways. I offer clients hope that life can be what they dreamed of before, and that there’s a pathway back to vibrance.

I strongly believe in the collaborative nature of therapy - the creative engagement between the client and therapist, working toward a common goal: to help bring a greater sense of well being to you, the client - to your life, your psyche, your body, your relationships, your career, your home. I have a background in film, which makes working with people from the arts a natural fit (though I love to work with clients from all walks of life). Relationship concerns, career concerns, depression, anxiety, existential questioning, trauma, illness, bereavement and addictions are some of the areas in which I have experience.