Rachel Sadaty-Ellerson (They/them)

LCSW
Accepting Clients

My overall goal as a therapist is to support you in living a life that is aligned with your values.

Clinical Social Worker in New York

Services
  • Individual
  • Adolescent/Teen

About My Clients

I specialize in working with BIPOC (especially mixed folks), LGBTQ+ adults, queer and gender-expansive youth, survivors of sexual assault and grief support.

My Background and Approach

My clinical work is deeply relational and rooted in social justice. My overall goal as a therapist is to support you in living a meaningful, values-aligned life and there are several ways I approach that goal. Particularly during trauma work, my therapeutic approach is emotion-focused, somatic/body-based, trauma-informed, and non-pathologizing. I also will use parts work, ACT, and psychodynamic modalities. When working with clients around grief, my goal isn't to make the grief go away or to tell you "you're grieving wrong," but instead to give grief space to breathe. In practice, that looks like both sitting with the pain and also making space for honoring and celebrating your loved one. This work also can involve navigating a complex relationship or mixed feelings about the person who died.

Techniques I Use

Specialties
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Internal Family Systems Psychodynamic Therapy
Other Techniques
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
  • Existential Therapy
  • Humanistic Therapy
  • Narrative Therapy
  • Psychodynamic Therapy
  • Relational Therapy
  • Somatic Therapy: Body-Based Healing for Emotional Trauma
  • Internal Family Systems
  • Trauma Therapy
  • Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)

Issues I Treat

Specialties
Grief or Loss Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Teen Issues
Other Issues
  • Anxiety
  • Body Image Issues
  • Dissociative Disorders
  • Domestic Violence or Intimate Partner Violence
  • Eating Disorders
  • Gender Identity Therapy
  • Historical/ Intergenerational Trauma
  • LGBTQ-Friendly Therapists
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Racial Identity
  • Sexual Abuse or Assault
  • Teen Issues
I offer online counseling in the following states:
I have experience with the following
  • Judaism

At A Glance

  • Experience: 4 years of practice
  • Languages: English
  • Rate: $150 - 200/session

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