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What Is Psychotherapy?
The meaning of the word psychotherapy isn't always clear. We are complicated beings — we have wants, fears, dreams, disappointments, fantasies, and thoughts that aren't always easy to understand. There are conflicts inside of everyone, and understanding them is the key to a healthier mind. Psychotherapy offers exactly that: A space to talk freely and explore your true self, helping you get closer to realizing your full potential.
LGBT Therapy: How Can Therapy Help Me Navigate My Identity in the World?
My work as an LGBT therapist addresses our unique identities in the context of a world that is ever more polarized. The LGBT and queer communities in all of their diversity face challenges and stigmas that don't affect the rest of our neighbors – even if we are living full, rich, and stable lives. Being part of this minority or working to grapple with your sexual or gender identity comes with unique concerns that are important to address, understand, and process.
We will seek deeper insights into your identity and its relationship to how you navigate the world, work through any internal struggles around that identity, and devise strategies for exploring, coping, and thriving. My goal is to help patients have a more confident and assured sense of self – and to identify ways to seek support and allyship, and provide it – in a too-often prejudiced world.
Our work together: Trauma, Anxiety, Depression, Grief, and Other Issues
No matter why you are seeking a therapist, in our work together you’ll learn more about yourself — your true self — in a space where you can express everything you’re feeling without judgment. I treat people seeking therapy to overcome trauma, as well as those managing anxiety, depression, grief, personality disorders, addiction, and more.
As an LGBT therapist in NYC who has worked extensively with immigrants, queer people, addicts, and eating disorders, I've spent my career helping people who have dealt with trauma in their lives. We will work on processing your thoughts and feelings in a supportive environment with the goal of diminishing trauma's hold on your life and finding a path to healing.
The goals of psychotherapy are numerous, whether you're wrestling with trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, or seeking more clarity about your own path forward in life. Each patient's needs are different, and our work together aims to help you become unstuck and move you toward a more authentic life — one that’s healthy and defined by free choice, rather than anxiety, depression, stress, worry, or anything else that is governing your life right now.