***NO CURRENT AVAILABILITY*** I am a licensed clinical social worker who partners with clients to help them to reach their personal, relationship and career goals. I specialize in serving BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color), women, and people of diverse sexual orientation and gender experiences.

Michele Burstein, LCSW specializes in supporting individuals who experience self-doubt, difficulty in relationships, anxiety, eating disorders and low self-esteem. Michele helps her clients to recognize and make the changes necessary to create a life they love. Through several years of clinical experience, Michele has found that therapy is most effective when grounded in understanding, collaboration, and motivation. She prioritizes creating a supportive environment in which individuals feel both safe and inspired to make powerful strides towards a more fulfilled self.

As difficult as life may seem at times, I aim to help my clients feel as if they don't have to go through it alone. I strive to provide a warm, supportive, and culturally sensitive safe space for my clients. I empower clients on their healing and self-growth journey by truly allowing them to feel heard and accepted. My goal is to help individuals regain control over their mental well-being, and together in a supportive therapeutic space, we can accomplish exactly that. I have worked with at-risk adolescents and adults from a variety of cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations, gender identities, and races.

Has the COVID-19 pandemic lead to an increase in stress or grief in your life? Are you longing to heal intergenerational trauma and internalized systemic oppression? I am an Indigenous (Laguna Pueblo) therapist working with clients with histories of trauma and grief and loss. My experience includes work with university students, military veterans, adults with dual diagnoses, mood disorders, and personality disorders. I help clients gain a deeper understanding of the origin of their struggles and develop new coping skills to foster growth and help regain agency over their lives.

Using a harm reduction framework, I support those involved in behaviors they are worried about to make self- activated changes that feel right for them rather than pushing any fixed agenda. A basic goal of my work is to provide a safe, supportive, caring environment that can foster comfort so my clients can take risks and make lasting changes.

Everyone wants to feel a sense of security and peace. People tend to develop rigid, inflexible thinking patterns that may feel safe, but limit their ability to remain present. In many of people’s struggles, they end up adding to their own pain. Gabrielle’s work aims to build awareness so that people can learn to invite difficult feelings into the space and create flexible thinking patterns, making it possible for healing and growth. Gabrielle empowers her clients by guiding them to practice and implement realistic, everyday skills with a focus on mindfulness that aid in maintaining self-acceptance and confidence.

Manhattan Wellness is a boutique psychotherapy practice, committed to collaborating with you to massively raise your confidence and upgrade your life. We believe in getting real, getting to the root of the issue, and taking action in order to make the changes you want to see in your life. We help you figure out how to inch yourself out of your comfort zone, so that you can dive head first into the life you’ve always wanted.

I believe in a flexible and pragmatic approach to change that focuses on each client's needs. My technique balances insight, active collaboration and positive exploration. I help clients to create practices that affect real change in the present. I see life's difficulties as challenges that further growth and depth. I've trained and worked in a number of contexts and with a range of issues including depression, anxiety, OCD, ADHD, trauma, and relationship challenges and growth. I also work with issues of creating a substantive, meaningful life within the distractions of modernity.

I take an empathic and supportive approach to therapy by establishing a safe space for my clients to uncover and explore painful emotions. Whether you’re experiencing chronic stress, feeling anxious or depressed, together we will identify goals for therapy. I tailor treatment to meet the specific needs of every client—with the aim of helping the client develop new skills, enhance self-awareness, foster positive change, and increase overall satisfaction and well-being. My specialized training includes both cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and psychodynamic treatment.

** Please be advised that I am currently not taking on new clients. I will update when this changes. Thank you so much** We may be hard-wired to struggle, however, suffering doesn't need to be your life sentence. You are WORTHY of a life full of joy, gratitude, and peace. If you are trying to change a behavioral pattern or unhealthy cycle, I can help you explore underlying beliefs & narratives behind this behavior. And then, we can work at your pace and explore solutions to change and grow.

I am a New York State Licensed Clinical Social Worker (License # 036633) with over 15 years of private practice psychotherapy experience. I was born and raised in New York. I work with individuals and couples, especially actors, artists, singers and other creative people.I offer treatment for: Depression, Anxiety, Mood Disorders, Obsessions & Phobias, Performance Anxiety, Writer's Block, Getting to your next level of artistic excellence, Developing creativity and mental/emotional flexibility, Career transitions, Mid-life crisis, Loneliness, Being new to NYC, Relationships, and Break-ups.

Manhattan Wellness is a boutique psychotherapy practice, committed to collaborating with you to massively raise your confidence and upgrade your life. We believe in getting real, getting to the root of the issue, and taking action in order to make the changes you want to see in your life. We help you figure out how to inch yourself out of your comfort zone, so that you can dive head first into the life you’ve always wanted.

Manhattan Wellness is a boutique psychotherapy practice, committed to collaborating with you to massively raise your confidence and upgrade your life. We believe in getting real, getting to the root of the issue, and taking action in order to make the changes you want to see in your life. We help you figure out how to inch yourself out of your comfort zone, so that you can dive head first into the life you’ve always wanted.

Michele Burstein, LCSW specializes in supporting individuals who experience self-doubt, difficulty in relationships, anxiety, eating disorders and low self-esteem. Michele helps her clients to recognize and make the changes necessary to create a life they love. Through several years of clinical experience, Michele has found that therapy is most effective when grounded in understanding, collaboration, and motivation. She prioritizes creating a supportive environment in which individuals feel both safe and inspired to make powerful strides towards a more fulfilled self.

Manhattan Wellness is a boutique psychotherapy practice, committed to collaborating with you to massively raise your confidence and upgrade your life. We believe in getting real, getting to the root of the issue, and taking action in order to make the changes you want to see in your life. We help you figure out how to inch yourself out of your comfort zone, so that you can dive head first into the life you’ve always wanted. You may have always felt like it’s seemed out of reach…but now it isn’t. Rachel specializes in working with individuals experiencing life transitions, relationship complications, anxiety and self-esteem issues.

I believe that therapy is a collaborative process and focus on building trusting, lasting relationships with my patients. I have worked with clients struggling with anxiety, depression, relationship conflicts, past trauma, behavioral problems, and low self-esteem. I take a non-judgmental approach to help clients feel empowered and confident that they can cope and overcome varying life stressors and achieve their desired goals.

It goes without saying that these are trying times. With the sharp increase in stress, fears about our health and safety, uncertainty about the future, and more, many of our daily routines have given way to depression, anxiety, and unhealthy coping. Psychotherapy can provide the support needed to improve how you feel and function by reducing anxiety and depressive symptoms, reducing excess drinking or marijuana use, increasing awareness and skills in personal interactions, and improving your overall outlook on life.

I am a psychotherapist graduated from New York University and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 15 years of experience in the field. In addition, I received training in Mindfulness from Cambridge Health Alliance of Harvard Medical School which I encounter to be an interesting complement and a powerful tool to increase tolerance for painful emotions as well as an enhancing ability to remain attentive. My approach stresses the therapeutic relationship as a central vehicle for transformation subsuming empathy, unconditional positive regard and genuine.

My goal as a psychologist is to help you feel better, quickly, applying proven therapeutic methods in a warm and caring atmosphere. I am solution oriented so you will not spend years in therapy. Most patients are in treatment for a few months. At the same time, I work to produce long-term, sustainable change in my patients. I help my clients progress toward their goals in a warm, supportive and affirming environment. Just as each person's needs, experiences, and strengths are unique, I tailor my services to each individual and help uncover past and present factors that impact functioning.

I believe that the therapy relationship has the ability to provide healing, growth and change. Finding a therapist who helps you feel safe, supported and challenged is central to this process. My style is warm and curious as well as direct and challenging. I am an active participant in the process as we seek out the hard and stuck places that get in the way of balance and meaningful relationships.