Trauma Focused Therapists in Sag Harbor, NY

Dr. Pentcheva is dedicated to providing evidence-based psychological interventions geared towards promoting individual and family wellness. She offers a wide range of services to help meet the needs of children and families from all over the Hamptons and beyond. Dr. Pentcheva specializes in working with children, young adults and their parents and takes a preventative, strengths based approach to treatment. By creating engaging, child-centered exercises for children and adolescents, she helps them to acquire new skills and incorporate them into their everyday lives.

Are you ready to gain a stronger sense of self, insight into your difficulties, and create effective skills to live healthfully and happily? Feel supported and confident that you have come to the right place. There is a deep opportunity to discover resilience by looking inward through counseling and unique/dynamic evidenced-based forms of therapy. Like the explorers, archeologists and nomads of our history, I am enthusiastic about helping you map out uncharted territory. From a holistic framework using experience, intuition, and a bit of humor, I hope to help you transform through your journey.

If you feel lost, confused or hopeless about your life or your relationships, you can turn things around. You can get clear about these problems, and find solutions. You can have a life that more authentically fits who you really are. You can manage your relationships so they begin to feel warm and fun again. When you're suffering and feeling awful, it may be hard to believe that there are things you can do to feel good again. It may also be hard to believe that you can find the power to shift and revive painful relationships.

I strive to illuminate your existing strengths and help you to recognize ways to apply these strengths to the areas of your life where you are feeling discouraged or stuck. I will help you to regain your equilibrium, achieve your goals and bring out your best self. I address anxiety/ depression, relationship issues, couples therapy, addictions, weight/eating issues, divorce. I do extensive work with high functioning ambitious adults helping to refine personal goals, push past obstacles and more fully realize potential. I also love working with children, teens and parents.

In my 20+ years of experience working with adults and couples, I believe that the therapeutic relationship and the safety it provides is key to change. My expertise lies in helping my clients work through their depression, anxiety and relationship issues. As an EMDR trained therapist I help my clients desensitize and reprocess traumatic memories and break free of the distorted negative beliefs they developed in a dysfunctional or addicted family system. The link between childhood trauma exposure and substance abuse is well established. EMDR can help treat alcohol and drug addiction by treating the trauma that underlies it.

Covid-19 has brought the world of mental health fragility to a new level never seen before. The isolation and loneliness felt by everyone from children to the elderly has caused a rise in depression, anxiety and fear regarding every day life and the future. These strains are unhealthy emotionally and physically and need attention to avoid lasting impressions. The working relationship in therapy is to define underlying issues, stuck thought patterns and transform negative behavior to evolve into a positive and thriving attitude and consequently, life choices. We will join together to create the life you desire, as I help guide you.

I am privileged to provide professional and thorough help to all of my clients. I will meet with you individually in a comfortable setting to talk over what concerns you. We can make a reasonable effective plan for short or longer term therapy; including referral to a specialist service that is based on your individual needs. I am confident that I can move you in the right direction. I believe in the strength of all my clients. I will provide my skills and expertise to reach our identified goals.

I am co-founder of Suntra Modern Recovery and Head of Recovery Programs. Suntra has helped many families and individuals recover from the upset of an addiction. Family members often call me to help intervene on a family member and help them start a path to recovery. I have been sober for more than 12 years. I am certified as an interventionist, trained in the ARISE method, and also a certified addiction recovery coach. We can intervene on a family member in a matter of days, and we can start them on successful recovery this week.

Are you looking for support and encouragement to take the next steps toward the life of your choosing? I am dedicated to helping you achieve peace with your past and present challenges, and to better align with your authentic life journey and vision for the future. Our sessions provide a safe space, where patience, compassion, and acceptance allow us to work together to achieve your life goals, dreams, and your heart’s desire. When current life stressors feel overwhelming, or familiar patterns play out in the form of symptoms, blocks, or blind spots, it may be a sign that past painful experiences are activated in present day life.

Therapy can help you work through problems that feel too big or overwhelming to tackle alone. Together, in a warm and confidential space, we can begin to explore what is making you feel anxious or stuck without judgement or fear. In therapy with me, you will be seen as an individual person with unique desires and experiences, not a collection of symptoms or issues. In session, you can expect liveliness and candor as we discuss the things you wish to explore: relationships, work, worries, goals and sense of self.

At East End Mental Health, we believe in the integrative approach to behavioral health and psychiatric care. We offer our clients comprehensive array of treatment options which include individual psychotherapy, couples counseling, psychotherapy groups, psychiatric evaluations, psychopharmacotherapies, and laboratory diagnostic/genetic testing services.

Are you experiencing anxiety, depression, difficulty relating to your partner or find yourself relying upon alcohol or another substance to get through the day? If so, I have helped many individuals and couples recover from these debilitating emotional and relationship challenges. I hold a Master of Science in Psychiatric Social Work from Columbia University and Bachelor of Arts in Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. My experience includes intensive work with mood disorders, trauma, addiction, couples therapy and bereavement in private practice as well as inpatient rehab and inpatient psychiatric settings.

My therapeutic approach focuses on my belief that when it comes to an individual’s life, they are the expert. As a therapist, it is my job to be expert on theory and techniques, to assist client's in realizing their own capabilities of deciding where they want to go, and I encourage the strengths within themselves to pursue wherever that is and to identity what that will take to get there. First, however, I must address the level of resistance a client shows.My treatment heavily looks at aspects of internalization, pulls from psychoanalytic theories of neurosis, specifically signal anxiety, and focuses on realizing personal agency.