Dissociative Disorders (DID) Therapists in Upper West Side, New York, NY

Are you are experiencing pain and suffering associated with life transitions? Developmental hurdles? Divorce? Illness? Grief? Job Stress? Aging? Through a client-centered approach, I would work with you to clarify your goals such as reduced suffering and pain, increased capacity to make healthy choices, to generate well-being and vital productive engagement in life. We would work together to help you access inner resources and develop action-strategies to attain these goals. Job stress during these difficult financial times create potential crises for you and your loved ones. Your need for flexible fee arrangements will be taken into consideration.

Our shared cycle of human life confronts us with issues longing to be addressed in the here and now, even as rooted in the past or in a sense of unrealized potentials.We do best in engaging such concerns, including the end of life itself, when our explorations occur in an open and activating dialogical process. Additional to the interpersonal process of therapy, our dreams and our engagement with what transcends us, often provide us with the guidance needed to move forward in our living process in a renewed and dynamic manner. Collaboratively and with mutuality, this is the service I am privileged to offer.

I believe that the most important element in an effective therapy is a genuine connection between the patient and therapist. My approach in therapy is interactive, supportive and empathic. I view psychotherapy as a creative process and my patients as co-partners in the psychotherapeutic process.

If you've found yourself in a relationship that feels too difficult or confusing to handle alone, contact me to see if I can help you. I am a Clinical Psychologist with a decade of experience helping people break through limiting thought patterns and behaviors that keep them dissatisfied with their lives.

I am a clinical psychologist and have been in practice for 30 years in both Connecticut and New York. At the moment, I am only working remotely, but have an office on the Upper West side need be. I see adults in individual psychotherapy and seek to help people at critical times in dealing with family, relationship, and/or occupational concerns. The work aims to alleviate anxiety and depressive feelings and offers people a new way of thinking that renews a sense of hope and control in their lives.

Welcome! I am a NY licensed, IFS Certified psychotherapist and consultant offering a safe, respectful and strengths perspective environment. I view therapy as a shared journey in which I bring my compassion, professional knowledge and understanding along to assist you in your own path of self discovery, growth and healing. My approach is non-pathologizing , self empowering, compassionate with a sensitivity to cultural difference. I am currently offering Tele-therapy sessions through zoom and/or phone. I look forward to being part of your journey!

Whether you or your child are working through conflictual relationships, painful past experiences or trauma, work/school stress, problematic behaviors, or feeling stuck in patterns, our societal context can amplify these difficulties. The past few years have brought multiple global and local crises we have had to navigate through collectively. Through understanding how our past and present circumstances affect us, we cultivate empathy for ourselves and those around us. Therapy illuminates the patterns we find ourselves in, and also provides ways of coping with the distress resulting from these patterns.

Aviva Raskin is a trauma informed therapist who works with multiple modalities. Aviva's clients come from many different backgrounds and frequently find that a "one-size fits all" approach has not worked for them. Aviva works to help you find tools that work for you. Aviva works with clients who wish to discuss topics surrounding gender, autism, sexuality trauma, sex-work, kink, anxiety, depression, dissociative disorders, bipolar disorder, and imposter syndrome among other topics.

Life's journey can be full of unexpected turns. Relationships can go awry. Parenting, aging, illness and loss, demands for work and career can be stressful. Do you find yourself repeating and reliving destructive patterns, feeling overwhelmed, not getting sufficient joy in your life? It is hard to find a way out alone. Talking with a counselor about issues that trouble us is inherently helpful, especially when combined with methods that create calm and develop awareness of your own sensory and emotional life. We can work together.

I am a compassionate and engaging therapist with 30+ years of experience integrating psychodynamic and body-based modalities. The therapeutic relationship and the sacred, generative space that is shared, physically or virtually, can facilitate profound growth and transformation. My practice is comprised of adolescents, young adults, and adults in Individual, Family, and Group Therapy. I often work with trauma and abuse, attachment and relational issues, anxiety disorders, depression, pain and chronic illness, learning disabilities, and various somatic issues and health concerns.

KRISTINEDANBACKPHD.COM I am the owner of Random Thoughts Psychological Therapy. A clinical psychologist/therapist in NY-CT, divorce coach/mediator, expert witness, and offer co-parenting, focusing on high conflict divorces/relationships. Our work will strengthen your resilience, ability to cope and adjust. Areas of focus are: narcissistic abuse, parenting, betrayal & loss. Psychotherapy allows for gaining awareness of how your history, biology, and emotions came together to create who you are, as well as, learning how to regulate your emotions, to have a healthier and more fulfilling life, work and love.

My eclectic form of Psychotherapy focuses on unresolved issues. to allow you to create an enriched life. I specialize in helping my clients work with their core shame and resulting issues such problems at work and relationships I am trained in EMDR which is recommended for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as well being trained to do inner child work. All these issues have unfortunately has probably given you a general feeling of anxiety, depression, and loss of zest in living. My own history has helped me discover the most effective techniques as well as compassion for your current struggle.

Is there a gap between who you are and who you want to be? Are you struggling with sadness, fear, stress or anxiety? Are you having difficulty getting things off the ground when it comes to your career or your relationships? Do you feel stuck or unsure of how to proceed in your life? Are you looking to enjoy and connect more? Therapy gives you the chance to take a closer look at your life- the past, present and future and all of its many parts so that you can emerge with greater clarity and peace of mind. This process allows you to notice and reflect on parts of yourself to make gains towards deeper insight and self-understanding.

Trauma, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, OCD, relationship problems, spirituality...dedicated to a deep symbolically oriented approach, I integrate a grounded training in psychoanalysis with expressive and spiritual work. I like the heart as well as the mind to be present in our work together. We may be a good match if you wish a flexible, deep, compassionate process that combines depth analysis along with practicality, and awareness of body-based states. Executive Director Emerita of the Institute for Expressive Analysis, with over 30 years experience as a therapist, I am on the faculty of 3 universities plus the Institute.

My approach to treatment is a supportive, validating and compassionate one, incorporating various styles of practice including insight oriented, relational, Cognitive-Behavioral (CBT) and/or Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). Each individual has his or her own needs and preferences. This could include either a goal specific, time limited treatment or an insight oriented approach in which they are looking for a space to make meaning of various experiences and understand their impact on the self. A comfortable, trusting, and collaborative therapeutic relationship is an essential foundation necessary to make the changes one of looking for.

Building our trusting relationship is the surest way I know to reduce your anxiety, depression, and quiet those punishing parts of yourself that seem to threaten your confidence and safety. We work together to make room to experience yourself in new ways, to feel the ground under your feet. Our relationship opens pathways to your life to feel your better self. Doubt, fear and depression will be lessened. Relationships will evolve, and options will open. We will talk and challenge automatic thoughts. We will also use your bodily experience to bypass the loops of stories stored in your critical mind.

Jungian analysis and psychotherapy treat a wide range of life's concerns and issues. Treatment focuses on resolving current difficulties or life changes, exploring relationship patterns or work conflicts, on understanding one's personal history more deeply, and more generally, on personal meaning and an enhanced quality of life. Certified Jungian analysts and psychotherapists are located in the greater New York area, including Westchester, Connecticut and New Jersey. Referrals can also be made to Jungian analysts in the wider United States and many countries throughout the world.

Feeling stuck? Find yourself having the same problems at work or in your personal relationships? Perhaps you can even identify specific ways you're sabotaging yourself... You are not alone. As part of development, we learn adaptive as well as maladaptive ways of coping; which can be frustrating and feel hopeless, but your life doesn't have to stay this way. With focused effort and collaboration, we can work to understand how your life got to this point and what you can do to make things better. Psychotherapy is about increasing awareness which leads to freedom.