Dissociative Disorders (DID) Therapists in Lower Manhattan, New York, NY

In my experience, difficult emotions, such as sadness and anger, are often replaced with expectations. They can come from family, partners, jobs and social media, and can paint a particular picture that can alienate the wide range of emotions a human may feel. These expectations often leave us feeling lost and alone. In order to develop genuine, creative relationships with others and ourselves, we must find a way to safely experience all of our emotions. If you feel you have hit a wall encountering painful depression and anxiety, and feel tied up in repetitive conflicts, you may need help examining the range of your emotions.

I am a psychodynamic clinician working with adults and older adolescents. If you encounter problems in relationships, work, or other areas of your life, I can provide an empathic, experienced perspective to help you more fully understand the current issues, and to see if there are patterns outside of your awareness that are contributing to your difficulties. I address deeper causes of anxiety and depression, that are usually related to personal history. I see the aim of treatment as increased self-understanding and change.

Whether the collapse is "out there" or "in here," it often seems the world is collapsing. Many of us seek therapy because the sense of losing our mind, ourselves, our loved ones, or our livelihood is terrifying, and the real threats of psychic catastrophes are debilitating. Knowing what we want becomes increasingly difficult, and we struggle to take shape and hold on to ourselves in the presence of others. We fold up or fold in to protect ourselves and our relationships, but then aloneness, desperation, panic, and self-attack set in.

I approach our work through deep listening and attention to your singular experience. You may be coming to seek relief from troubling thoughts, difficulties in relating to others, or physical symptoms of anxiety or depression. I facilitate an unfolding process where you can give voice to your conflicts, relationships, desires, and memories, sometimes for the first time. Together, we can find insight where you feel stuck and find relief where you feel pain.

I am a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst with many years of experience treating adults, adolescents and children. While I utilize a wide range of current treatment techniques, my practice is based on a foundation of contemporary psychoanalytic approaches. I have found a psychodynamic perspective---the view that our emotional lives represent a continually evolving process that determines our lived experience in meaningful and purposive ways---to be essential for understanding a whole person and their current life situation.

It is in the depths of our psyche where fear and longing reside. We use tricks and masks to defend against knowing ourselves and yet yearn to be known, long to be recognized. The journey to discovery consists not only in what we say about ourselves but how we are listened to. It is in this unique place of psychoanalysis where the known and unknown, the conscious and the unconscious meet. Once we start to listen to the stories we tell about ourselves, and are heard, the mind is opened to a more expansive self and healing can begin.

Footprints was started by a therapist who realized that often times the services provided to low socio-economic communities is lacking quality care. We noticed these communities were confronted with long wait times, disrespectful admins, and subpar treatment. The one and only purpose was to exploit the community for profit without providing the level of care deserved. Feel Better Therapy began from the inspiration to provide quality mental health care to the poorest of communities and treating the clients of this community the same way a rich patient would be treated in a clinic treating affluent clients.

My ideal client is one who is curious about and interested in making the changes necessary to achieve their stated goals. I work with people who have reached the limits of their ways for navigating the relationships in life that are no longer satisfying, desireous or life enhancing.. These "stuck" points can be interpersonal, intrapersonal, and/or professional.

As a Clinical Psychologist, I provide a safe and warm environment where my clients can explore areas of their lives that cause distress. I help clients to uncover their strengths and enhance their potential to heal. The process of cultivating self-awareness, exploring oneself and their relationship world, unpacking deep feelings, processing trauma, coping techniques, create change. When clients are listened to with compassion and sensitivity in a safe space, enormous transformation becomes possible. I also offer many adjunct holistic techniques such as reiki and meditation, if desired. I witnessed beautiful growth over the years.

When working with patients, I strive to get to know them and to see the person in front of me. After all, we all have our own story & unique set of experiences. Patients are the experts of their own experience. I provide interventions, tailored to each individual. I recognize that mental health treatments are not always easy. I guide each individual through treatment, focusing on strengths and building coping skills.

Tenzin Palbar (He/Him) is a psychotherapist who is passionate about social justice, community service and systems thinking. He is grounded, thoughtful, ethical, and culturally informed and has deep experience providing therapy to individuals (7-85), couples, families and divorced co-parents. His clinical expertise spans diverse races, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation and immigration status.

I take a thoughtful and caring approach to working together. The therapy is collaborative, and I aim to create a safe space to help you process trauma and address issues related to relationships, abuse, chronic illness, life and career concerns, identity, and creative expression. I also specialize in helping people recover from narcissistic abuse, religious trauma, and coercive control, including survivors of cultic abuse and high-demand groups.

I am a psychodynamically trained therapist with 30 years of experience treating a wide variety of individuals and couples. I don't treat diagnoses or disorders. I work with people who are dissatisfied and unhappy with some aspects of their lives, and who have come to recognize that their difficulties may have their origin within their own perceptions or unproductive patterns of behavior. A patient recently described our work together saying, “You listen to me until I know what I think.”

The successful outcome of the work done in therapy is so very much a result of the unique relationship between patient and therapist. To that end my practice is one in which I am active, supportive and non-judgemental.Emotional injuries from the past live in the present, effecting how we relate and react to people and events throughout life. Psychotherapy has the potential to heal past wounds and impart the insights that can result in a healthier, more emotionally prosperous present. Depression, anxiety and relationship problems need not define us.

The journey towards healing and self-exploration is a sacred and deep encounter. Finding the right person who is attuned and able to respond to your needs is an essential part of this journey. I am an experienced psychoanalyst and a graduate of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. I bring a gentle and balanced approach to treatment to restore vitality to your life and to feel understood. Our sense of being is naturally capable of nourishing healthy aspects of the self and transforming wounded or stuck parts. These fragmentations often result in depression, anxiety, relationship issues, and creative blocks.

I am a licensed Social Worker and Certified Life Coach committed to working with adults to break through limiting barriers and help achieve their optimum potential in their personal and professional lives. My clinical approach addresses issues such as depression, anxiety, grief, relationship difficulties, and career transitions. Patient and compassionate I encourage and motivate my clients through challenging and upfront conversation. Life and work balance can be difficult to manage. Proper tools and the ability to use effective coping strategies can support you to interact with these situations in a much healthier manner.

I work with men, women, and couples over 18 years of age. No matter what your reason is for seeking therapy, you deserve someone to witness your truth without reaction. You might be unsure whether you’re justified being in therapy or tell yourself that things aren’t really that bad and that you’re okay. But allowing someone to just be there with you creates the space to look at your expectations, thoughts, and feelings, and see what you want to do with them. It's valuable for someone to be part of your journey to help you explore what your narrative is and how it is affected by patterns and dynamics that affect all of us.

For those of us who do not feel loved and appreciated by this world, it can be difficult to trust ourselves and to honor our worth. Maybe the intergenerational traumas and ongoing struggles of our cultures and communities lead us to disconnect from others or to feel dissociated from ourselves. Maybe we diminish our feelings or hide parts of ourselves as survival strategies. When tangible systemic change seems slow or even impossible, it can also feel like self-love and joy are forever out of our reach.

Working with individuals, families, children and teens for the past 20 years, I have come to learn that we all want to be understood so that we may live healthier, more productive lives. Often times however, conflicts and repetitive behaviors prevent us from finding the satisfaction we desire. Depression, anxiety, and a host of other self defeating conditions or behaviors can emerge that interfere with basic relationship success and can cause work, or school related difficulties. My approach is to work closely with you through any issues, in an atmosphere of acceptance and support, designed to address your individual needs.