Lani Pawar

If you find yourself overly frustrated, stressed, anxious or irritable with your kids, therapy can help provide you with the support that you need to manage your own emotional health. It can provide you with an outlet to discharge your frustration, stress and worries, so that you can be less reactive and more emotionally available to your child. Get the support that you need to become the parent that you want to be.

In any relationship, conflict is inevitable. Conflict itself is not problematic; it’s how we behave and communicate when frustrated, angry or disappointed that gets us into trouble. While we can’t control what others say and do, we can control how we respond in the midst of strong emotions. If you would like to be able to have all of your feelings, articulate your thoughts more clearly and respond appropriately during a conflict, we can work on constructive ways for you to relate to others.

I graduated from the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis with a Masters in Psychoanalysis and Culture in Brookline, MA. I completed my clinical training at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies in New York City. I am a Licensed Psychoanalyst in the State of New York.

Psychoanalysis emphasizes the use of relational therapy in order to work with patients. Rather than give homework or concrete solutions to life problems, we work with the patient in the here and now. The relationship you develop with your therapist can help you have new experiences and help you learn to relate to others in your life differently. Relational therapy demonstrates how you can function differently in relationships through lived experience rather than intellectual learning.

For those that don't want to undergo a psychoanalytic treatment, psychodynamic therapy applies psychoanalytic ideas and techniques to working with patients that want a more traditional talk therapy. Psychodynamic therapy originated in psychoanalytic thinking and seeks to get to the root of the issue rather than strictly addressing symptoms.