Psychotherapy in New York
Therapy for high-performing adults, teens and couples navigating anxiety, depression, trauma/PTSD, grief, burnout, perfectionism, career pressure, relationship stress, and the emotional realities of building or growing a family.
Earlier career recognition
The pressure behind the competence
You are the person others rely on. You deliver. From the outside it looks handled, and much of it is. What is harder to say out loud is that you are tired in a way sleep does not fix, that your mind runs long after the day ends, that the standards you hold yourself to have stopped being useful, or that the closest relationships in your life are getting the least of you.
Capability can hide a great deal: anxiety, exhaustion, trauma, grief, loneliness, resentment, the sense of having drifted from what you actually wanted. I am not interested in making you less ambitious. I want to help you understand the patterns you are running, so that pressure stops being the only thing organizing your life. I want to be your ally towards creating a more meaningful and fulfilling life. With EMDR, we can even help your brain reprocess traumatic memories, reducing -and sometimes resolving- the associated emotional disturbance.
Services
One to one
For high-performing adults and teens carrying demanding work, demanding standards, or a life that has changed shape.
Partners
For two capable people who keep missing each other, and for couples carrying pressure that has stopped landing evenly.
My tools
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We look at what is actually happening in your thinking, your body, your relationships and your history, rather than at the symptom alone.
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Practical work on reprocessing traumatic or disturbing memories, on emotion regulation, sleep, rumination and boundaries, so there is enough ground under you to do the deeper work.
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Relationships, values, meaning and grief: the parts of a life that get deferred while you are managing everything else.
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Small, deliberate shifts you test between sessions, reviewed together, so that the change is yours and not prescribed.
I draw on person-centered therapy, EMDR, CBT, REBT, solution-focused therapy, motivational interviewing and family systems therapy, within a trauma-informed frame. Methods are chosen with you and for you; not every client works with every method. See my tools →
Questions
A short, low-pressure conversation: what is going on for you, what you are hoping for, how I work, and whether I am the right person. It is free, and there is no obligation to continue.
Sessions are $130 for individual therapy and $180 for couples. Sliding-scale places are available. Cognizant Psychotherapy does not take insurance, and provides a monthly superbill you can submit to your insurer for possible reimbursement.
Sessions are by secure video only; I do not currently offer in-person appointments. I see clients who are physically located in New York State at the time of the session.
A free fifteen-minute consultation is a low-pressure conversation about what is going on and whether working together makes sense. There is no obligation, and it is fine to be unsure.
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