Couples Counseling Therapists in Lower Manhattan, New York, NY

In these changing and unprecedented times, we are all being faced with new questions and challenges. Through the use of various psychotherapy methods and a collaborative approach, I work to cultivate strength within stress and develop new life-changing habits to cope with any of life’s various obstacles. My therapy sessions are designed to examine personal issues and provide effective tools to adapt and help you live the life you want. I am accepting new clients via tele-therapy (Zoom, FaceTime or Skype).

Everyone experiences life challenges and stressors, creating overwhelming emotions and behavioral patterns. Therapy is your first step toward gaining greater insight into your life. The therapeutic relationship will assist in exploring how you relate to others and the world. I strive to create a therapeutic experience that is safe, non-judgmental, and collaborative.

Therapy can be a space of transformation, healing, and hope, and this work begins with co-creating a space where you feel comfortable and safe bringing all versions of yourself. In my work with clients, we address the ways in which they feel stuck in their lives and what liberation and contentment means to them. Drawing from my academic, professional, and lived experience, I help individuals navigate identity-based explorations, including gender and sexuality, multiple ethnic/geographical/cultural identities, disability, and neurodivergence.

I believe in providing a safe space where clients can feel supported to explore their emotions, values, and beliefs. Working across multiple cultures and backgrounds, I have learned to encourage openness and creativity with compassion. Using an integrative approach, I incorporate different modalities with a focus on psychodynamic, relational, and trauma focused therapies.

Finding a therapist who you connect to is important in achieving your goals. As a psychotherapist and drama therapist with over 15 years experience, I specialize in the integration of verbal psychotherapy and the arts to help people move from a place of feeling stuck to a place of feeling empowered, confident, and creative. I bring warmth, compassion, humor, truthful communication and collaboration to the therapy process, offering a space where you can explore your thoughts and feelings creatively and work toward solutions and resolutions at your own pace.

It is through congruence, a genuine ability to empathize and to be compassionate, that I believe is how an organic developing therapeutic relationship manifests. My style’s core foundation revolves around a collaboration between Rogerian Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and Internal Family Systems (IFS). It is with an open heart that I invite you to give yourself an opportunity at enhancing your quality of life through the process of self-discovery.

I’m a firm believer that our life experiences play a role in the ways we exist in the world. I’m passionate about creating a space for folks to gain insight into how their life experiences are impacting their well-being and and how to cultivate more connection, vulnerability, and safety in their lives. Understanding your own story is the foundation for a happier and fuller life and I aim to create an environment where you can get to know yourself a bit more.

I work with adults, children, and couples who are seeking insight into the root causes of their suffering. We experiment with new understandings for persistent problems, allowing curiosity and empathy to lead the way. As your desires, conflicts, and feelings about yourself and others come to the surface, we look closely at them, and see how they connect to what you are dealing with now. This can change the nature of problems, and sometimes, liberate you from them entirely.

I'm a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with an extensive background in anxiety, depression, trauma, and addiction. I provide therapy for individuals and couples in a safe, judgment-free environment. I've helped many people overcome obstacles to satisfaction in life. My clients have found this work leads to transformation and empowerment. In addition to talk therapy, I have experience providing treatment in different modalities, including Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) and Somatic/Body awareness work.

I am a psychotherapist in New York City with over seven years of experience in the field. I received my master's degree in clinical social work from New York University and I have completed three years of advanced training as a couples and family therapist at The Ackerman Institute in NYC. I offer a collaborative and integrative style that draws from relational, narrative, feminist, and mindfulness-based theories. I am LGBTQ-aware and affirming. Social justice and cultural humility are at the root of all the work I do.

I believe that people come to therapy because they want to change their life for the better. I work with individuals to lighten sadness, grief or anxiety, or to gain a greater understanding of one's self. I believe that the root causes of difficulty are developmental or situational, circumstantial, or a trauma. I strive to provide a non-judgmental, nurturing, safe space to explore insights, strengths and challenges. I specialize with multi-cultural and multi-racial adults, expatriates, those in multi-racial relationships, and those struggling with anxiety, depression, personality disorders and addiction.

Your anxiety symptoms can be controlled before panic levels are reached and higher anxiety symptoms can be reduced. Find relief from symptoms in the first few weeks of treatment. Patients feel better in as little as three weeks and often leave treatment after six months. Specalizing in anxiety disorders such as: social anxiety, relationship issues, stress, obsessive compulsive disorder, performance anxiety, panic disorder, GAD, anxiety disorder. chronic stress, eating disorders, sexual dysfunction, relationship conflict, sleep disorder, panic, depression, out of control behavior, and confusion. New York City, Union Square, 10003, Chelsea, NYC 10011, West Village NYC 10014

There can be great joy in learning how to take the necessary but difficult steps to lead a more purposeful life. If you have been struggling in some part of your life - whether it be to improve your relationships, manage conflict better, learn how to communicate with others in healthier ways, overcome codependent and unhealthy patterns in life, or create more self-care - you may feel overwhelmed or unsure what to do. You might feel like your whole world is falling apart and turned upside down. It probably feels daunting! And you may be wondering if there is anyone that is able to help you. But, I am so glad you are here.

I offer counseling services to adults facing the significant challenges of life, personal distress, relationship issues and trauma. My therapeutic approach involves joining with clients to harness the best in them in an alliance focused on resolving long standing problems. We'll work together to expand self-understanding in order to cultivate your strengths and overcome barriers to personal and relational health. I also guide couples looking for renewal to get unstuck by offering tools and insight that cultivate their inner potential for resilience, intimacy, and desire.

After more than 35 years in practice, I have found that most clients need a combination of support, insight, and challenging interactions to help them grow and move past whatever obstacles they are facing. I work with individuals and couples on the most intimate aspects of their lives, including their sexuality, relationships, and life and death issues. My style is interactive, and employs uncovering family of origin dynamics, but also more practical, cognitive and behavioral methods to help make changes more quickly.

I make the room safe, no matter the issue you bring to me. Everyone could use therapeutic support or help achieving greater pleasure in their life at some point, whether it is to cope with a break up, figure out relationship patterns that you want to change, contend with anxiety, loneliness or depression, grieve a loss, process major life transitions or work on a marriage. I have been treating adults and couples in private practice for over 15 years.

Our suffering is self-protective in that it communicates to us that change is necessary in our relationship to ourselves, to others, and the greater world. For over 15 years, I have worked with individuals of diverse backgrounds, ages and sexual orientations to harness their innate movement toward growth. I collaborate with you so we can directly approach, understand, and work through obstacles that prevent you from taking on life's challenges and fully experiencing its joys. These may be distressing feelings, problems in relationships with others, or negative beliefs you have about yourself.

Psychotherapy is a unique human relationship . Its purpose is fuller self understanding leading to a more satisfying and successful life. My central focus is respect for each person's individuality, on your hopes, your fears, and understanding how your unique problems have come to interfere with a fulfilling life.