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About My Clients
I often work with clients who are experiencing an increase in anxiety, depression, panic, rumination, PTSD symptoms, and/or unexplained chronic pain (such as headaches) and are ready to seek relief. These clients are unsure of where their symptoms are coming from and why (and are worried about finding out). Often my clients have difficult, confusing feelings toward their parents/childhood; and feel pressure to be perfect or good.
My Background and Approach
With warmth and authenticity, I will help you build the capacity to understand and accept what you've been through and what you face now. When we can be with what is and honor ourselves in how we meet life, the need for symptoms (which are trying to protect us from difficult feelings) decreases. Experiencing life in a qualitatively different way is possible. It can be stressful to reach out to a new therapist (a stranger!) with the intimate and stressful details of your life, and you can be assured I will honor you with understanding and compassion. I offer complimentary extended consultations. I hope to hear from you soon. I have an LMSW license and an MSW from New York University. I am certified in Pain Reprocessing Therapy with the Pain Psychology Center; I am a certified Sexual Assault Counselor with Mount Sinai's Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention program; and a support group facilitator with Right to Know for those affected by misattributed parentage/adoptees.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Symptoms (such as anxiety, depression, chronic pain, etc.), often arise when we are struggling to be with—truly see, explore, and accept—difficult aspects of our lives or our pasts and the painful feelings they bring. It’s common to lack this capacity—we weren’t meant to do this alone. Many of us haven’t received the support we need to hold life’s pain. I bring the capacity to help you contain and explore your feelings and inner experiences and the expertise to help you understand and organize your inner world. Together, we will make sense of what has happened to you and what you’re currently going through. We do this together, but the expanded capacity and coherency stays with you beyond our sessions. I will reflect back to you the truth and beauty of who you are and help you access your unique essence more clearly and fully.