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You deserve more than just feeling "okay"! I'm an experienced clinical psychologist based on Long Island, with three offices in Garden City, Rockville Centre, and Roslyn Heights, NY. I am to help you overcome obstacles, feel empowered, and achieve fulfillment in life. I help people with marriage and relationships difficulties, occupational challenges, and daily functioning. I use a sensitive, supportive, and warm approach, offering you my undivided and judgment free attention. I love working with people, and aim to make each of my clients feel comfortable. I adjust my treatment approach based on each client's needs, and I work to understand your background and then create a path to help you experience happiness and a fulfilling future. For those with anxiety, relationship, depression, stress, or any other types of struggles, please call me today and let's make sure that you're on a path towards a happier life.

Are you tired of feeling stuck? Do you want to create some changes to make your life more interesting or more suitable to who you really are? Are you tired of struggling with food, your body, your intense emotions, andor the use of substances? Are you struggling with loss, abandonment, grief, or changes in relationships? Do you wish your relationships were more satisfying? Have you tried other types of treatment that didn't seem to gel with you? Together we'll look at your life through a symbolic lens and help you to connect the dots of your psyche. We'll utilize discussion andor art-making and dream analysis to better understand relationship difficulties, patterns, and behaviors. Our work will involve fostering awareness, insight, integration, and wholeness. My areas of specialty include disordered eating, trauma, grief and loss, life transitions, depression, anxiety, body image, and addictions. I am aware of the great expense that therapy can be and I do offer affordable options to make therapy accessible. Please, email me to request a free consultation call!

I utilize a combination of strategies to help combat the nuisance voice in my head. The key goal is to get out of your mind and back into living your life with passion and a sense of purpose. I also like to focus on breaking the unhelpful coping patterns that may have been established years ago. Kindness and compassion are my fundamental values. I strive to create a nonjudgmental environment where we can work together to learn the principles of being in the present moment while also developing techniques to build self-acceptance and self-compassion. Please visit my website to explore a more detailed explanation of my practice and my blog.

If you are looking to reduce anxiety, acquire healthy coping skills, and improve your relationships then you are in the right place. I am a licensed professional counselor, and I am passionate about helping adults and teens who are ready to process the deep inner conflicts to stop self-sabotaging. As your therapist I can help you see these patterns and also assist you in creating a roadmap to achieving sustained and meaningful change. I specialize working with individuals seeking support for anxiety, trauma, depression, and low self-esteem. The majority of my practice focuses on helping individuals who may present as successful but internally you may feel deeply ashamed or unsettled in life. I practice a modern and relatable approach to therapy and tailor my skills to your specific needs. I integrate affirmation, challenge, humor and a direct and honest approach in my sessions. I have a background as a board-certified art therapist and supporting individuals who have an interest in using art-based processing to aid in their coping. I have a deep understanding of the value of using approaches that are not only limited to talk therapy. In a lot of ways, our earlier adaptations work against us, so changing our habitual patterns of acting and relating to others is effortful and requires a lot of practice. This type of change can be challenging and come at a slow pace, and I honor that in my sessions by working towards building a strong and safe therapeutic relationship.

I subscribe to a holistic approach when it comes to therapy. By that I mean that I'm interested in understanding you as a complete person, rather than just a collection of symptoms or problems. I'm not interested in gathering information from you to support a specific diagnosis. Instead, I want to hear your unique story, so I can see life through your eyes and gain a better understanding of what makes you tick (as well as what might be ticking you off at the moment). Once we identify those factors, we'll have a better grasp on how to get you to a better place mentally and emotionally.

I am here to help with anxiety, depression, trauma and PTSD, relationship issues, life transitions and more. Through respect, understanding, honesty and a touch of humor, therapy becomes a safe place to ease distress and accomplish goals. As we work together, therapy can help with easing symptoms, healing and recovery, improving life satisfaction, relationships and well being. I incorporate the wisdom and tools from various psychotherapy approaches. Some clients choose to include the calming effects of mindfulness or meditation as part of therapy. As a Psychotherapist, I - Listen for what you say, feel and mean, seeking to understand what life is like for you and what kind of life you desire. - Ask what you feel and believe about yourself and the world. - Help you connect with your internal and external resources for coping and change. - Consider how patterns and habits may be helping or keeping you stuck. - Provide information, feedback and guidance. - Help with coping, recovery and healing from life's most challenging and painful experiences. - Help you pursue your meaningful goals. - Plan with you ways to support your progress in between sessions and help positive changes last. - Look toward your creating more meaningful ways to approach daily life, relationships, health and emotional well being. I offer Psychotherapy and Teletherapy for adults and teens (16 and older) and Couples Therapy. Treatment is available in person, online or combined.

I firmly believe in meeting my clients where they are in their current struggles. I hope to empower them to move toward productive, healthy futures. Whether you want to grow in awareness, resolve relationship challenges, or move beyond depression and anxiety, I can help you. I am skilled at building strong relationships with my clients. I can relate to their challenges & use humor to help them feel comfortable. I help them open up so they can address their needs. I am experienced at helping domestic violence and sexual abuse survivors, as well as adolescents. I also have experience helping couples with relationship concerns.

It is my sacred honor to help people with their deepest and most personal issues: their ancient wounds, in their lives within and without; their deepest hopes and fears, dreams and longings, and the blocks that interfere with creating their lives and finding and birthing their Selves. It saddens me deeply to see our world being offered "quick fixes," "bandaids," and "get over it" or "transcend it" philosophies for dealing with life's deepest wounds and traumas. It saddens me to see people being offered symptom "management" instead of real healing -- managing thoughts, feelings, and more -- leaving the real wound beneath the symptom, beneath the surface to continue to haunt them in their lives. It saddens me to see our world encouraging people to repeat as adults what they did as children - repress their feelings and find defenses to keep them away. For children, this is sanity- and life-saving. For adults, this is society degrading feeling and keeping us emotionally stuck, emotionally unmatured. For adults, this is society working against our healing, our growing, our transforming, our becoming all we can be. It saddens me to see us go 'round and 'round the vicious cycle of cause and effect when we leave our own individual wounds unhealed -- deeply affecting the state of our world and our country -- and then when the state of our world and country, in turn, triggers those same unhealed wounds within us. I bring to clients a message of lasting healing, healing to the root. I help people find and claim their own wounds, commit themselves to the real work of healing inside and out, work at their organic rhythm and pace to build their capacity to feel, and more. I also help people recognize the link between their individual healing and the healing of our planet. With a passion for safety and for healing to the root, I am committed to helping heal and transform our world one-by-one and on a global scale.

I believe in the power of therapy to heal and to bring a shift in ones perceptions. My effort is to engage the other in a cooperative process and in doing so to open all kinds of other possibilities in one's life. I have worked as a therapist for quite a few years and feel that the initial coming to the office is a difficult first step, but one that in the end will enable you to have a better quality of life.

Does your life seem to be repeating a pattern that, despite how optimistic and certain you feel at the start of a relationship, ends up causing you to feel disappointed, frustrated, and even surprised that, again, things did not turn out as you had hoped? This pattern may be connected to a previous experience that extends back to young adulthood, adolescence, or even childhood. You may have ‘unfinished business’ that is held within your brain and your physical body as an emotional wound. You don’t even have to be conscious of it for the past experience to influence the choices you make in the present. I am a trauma-trained psychotherapist, certified in eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), which is an approach that not only treats the symptoms of an emotional wound but enables you to heal it and to put the past experience where it belongs- in the past. The word 'trauma' may sound frightening andor confusing. It actually comes from the Greek term, trauma, and means 'wound.' Therefore, my training helps to treat and heal your emotional wounds. With help from a mental health professional, you can become more conscious of these wounds, and with consciousness comes power- the ability to make healthy choices that serve you in the best way. I don't tell you what you should or should not be doing in your life. I do offer a safe space free of judgement so that you can explore what you truly wantneed and break unhealthy patterns. As a psychotherapist in private practice, I work with you to tailor your treatment to meet your individual goals. Together, we will create new and healthier relationship patterns that bring joy and fulfillment as you move forward on your journey! "The only journey is the one within." - Rainer Maria Rilka

As a licensed marriage and family therapist, my goal is to provide a safe, nonjudgmental environment to work through any problems you may be facing. I received my master's in marriage and family therapy from Hofstra University after completing a graduate degree in psychology in education from Teachers College, Columbia University. I’m trained in therapy modalities for individuals, couples, and families. I have specialty areas in couples therapy, anger management, chronic andor terminal illnesses, as well as grief. Couples, revive your love, rediscover each other, and work through your differences. Learn to not only hear, but to listen to each other. Therapy is a chance to rebuild, rediscover, and move forward with new relationship knowledge. I take a client-centered approach and work with you to address your areas of concern.