Relationships take courage
I help couples deepen their relationships. I also work with individuals who want to understand and embrace their new roles after major life changes including parenthood, divorce, or loss.
Individual and couples therapy on New York City’s Upper West Side and via telehealth
I meet couples who want to improve their communication, reduce conflict, prepare for marriage and other transitions, rebuild trust, and increase intimacy. Many couples I work with are also navigating the complexities of family-building, parenting, and demanding jobs. I help you hear each other in a new way. By enabling vulnerability and empathy between you during sessions, I can help you work through the inevitable challenges of life as loving partners, not adversaries.
I help both individuals and couples navigate aspects of family building that can be particularly difficult: fertility issues, pregnancy, parenthood, divorce, career change and forming blended families. Identities and lifestyles undergo seismic shifts in the process, and people can come to feel disconnected from themselves, constrained, or inauthentic in their new roles. I help you adapt to the new realities of your lives and find ways to make your new role and situation your own.
I help people who feel stuck in unwanted emotions: anxiety, post-traumatic symptoms, depression, malaise, or grief. Those who need a helping hand to find their way through. We figure out what your emotions are telling you about what matters most, and use that understanding to orient you toward a life that is joyful, meaningful, and engaged.
Emotions always make sense. Together, we will figure out what yours are telling you about what’s most important.
Many of the individuals and couples I work with come to therapy because they feel emotionally overwhelmed and misunderstood by their partners and friends. I help them understand and express their needs clearly for greater fulfillment in their relationships—with others and themselves.
I love working with couples. A lot of therapists don’t. The sessions are dynamic and energized, full of emotion and real-time interactions that can be transformative. Yes, there are difficult moments and painful conversations, but these are the ways in. This is how you will build deeper, more secure relationships where you can feel truly known and—surprising to so many—loved for who you are.
I specialize in helping people who are struggling to understand the changes they’re experiencing in their roles in life. I help them embrace who they are now. Often, disorientation or feelings of loss arise with parenthood, fertility struggles, divorce, marriage, new blended family roles, or death of a loved one. This happens in individual work and in couples therapy. Everything is on the table as the bond between the therapist and client deepens: the fears that previously felt unspeakable, the reactive emotions and behaviors you have used to cope, and the inevitable surprise, sadness, joy and determination that comes as we grapple with compromise and change. And more often than you might expect, we laugh. Like tears, laughter is healing and true.
I have a doctorate in clinical psychology and use evidence-based methods including EFT, AEDP, CBT, mindfulness strategies and ACT, along with my professional and personal experience, to be fully engaged with you in our sessions. I am passionate about this work and take the privilege of your trust seriously.
Let’s get started!
Call me at 646-397-8889 or click below to schedule a 15-minute phone consultation. We’ll talk about your therapy goals and how I can help you. After that, we can start meeting online or in person and begin making the changes you need.