I specialize in work with children and families. I can help children with both school and home issues. I also work well with creative individuals, as well as young adults in transition. I frequently work with lawyers and academics. I work with many types of people and problems. My extensive education, experience and interests support my work. My knowledge of childhood development helps everyone, since we all have that child within us. I look forward to talking to you and discussing the possibilities of working together therapeutically. Your questions and concerns are welcome.

I am a New York State Licensed Psychotherapist. I am a goal oriented practitioner who is an active and involved participant in treatment with my clients. I will provide a warm, empathetic, non judgmental, safe place where we can work together toward achieving your goals and removing barriers toward reaching your desired potential. I pride myself on the rapport my clients feel with me almost immediately, enabling them to be themselves and feel comfortable engaging and sharing their feelings. I incorporate strength based therapy in my practice and am insightful, intuitive and provide feedback. My experience is comprehensive.

Therapy provides a safe space where you can begin to explore the things in your life that are no longer serving you. Everyone deserves to be seen and heard and therapy can provide an environment to be the most genuine version of you. Using a combination of traditional talk therapy and art therapy, new doors of self-expression can be opened. I strive to offer support and foster empowerment to elicit positive life changes. By utilizing the creative process you can build self-awareness, facilitate personal growth and gain insight and understanding.

My approach to therapy considers that the mind and body are integral parts of a whole being. Achieving balance between these parts is an important component of the healing process and my goal is to help clients achieve this stability. Anxiety and depression can be unbearable and sometimes immobilizing; relationship problems can weaken our capacity for experiencing happiness; death, divorce and trauma can leave us hopeless and empty. My therapeutic approach strives to help client's emotional wounds heal in order to regain inner peace and improve personal growth.

I believe that the therapeutic process, although painful at times, is very rewarding and that individuals can heal and have fulfilling lives from engaging in treatment. My ideal client is a person who is willing to consistently attend therapy and trust in the process. I understand that "resistance" is a necessary part of treatment and believe that trust comes when the client and therapist continue to interact with each other. Therapy can be an unique and rewarding experience; please join me on the road to discovering your authentic self.

I have over ten years of experience helping clients, particularly sex addicts, with the challenging, often frightening task of achieving their potential. When people come into my office, they are usually stuck. Stuck in destructive, out of control behaviors. Stuck in ways of coping with past traumas that are not allowing them to move forward. Their distress at being stuck is palpable, as is their motivation to move forward with their lives. It is this motivation I begin with, the strength it takes to honestly face what isn't working. Together, we can transform being stuck into flying free.

My areas of focus and expertise address healing from trauma, family conflict, anxiety, depression, anger, adjustment challenges, and mindfulness. My dedicated work with children, adolescents, and adults, has served to reinforce my goal of holistically improving the lives of my clients. My job as a therapist is to support and empower you to reach your own goals within the context of a safe and profound human relationship.

I offer a supportive, safe, and nurturing space where you can explore healing and growth. You can expect our work together to uncover your unique motivations for change on the path to emotional wellness. My approach emphasizes a deep, integrated understanding of self. I offer clients a warm, empathetic presence and engage with their resiliency to cope with life's challenges.

My practice consists largely of adolescents and young adults. My greatest assets are - an ability to connect with people in an accepting, non-judgmental and empathic way. Many young people today seek guidance and a better understanding of who they are and what they are feeling, their instinctive reactions and how to better understand themselves and gain from this crucial insight. Helping them through this life-changing learning process is my forte.

I am currently a Bilingual Psychotherapist. I speak both English and Spanish and provide therapy in both languages. I serve an array of mental health disorders including drug abuse and addiction. I also specialize in schizophrenia as well as depression, anxiety disorder and bipolar disorder.

Always helping everyone else? Want results in redesigning your own life or are at major transitions or crossroads? Have areas of success but others of disappointment? Stuck or wanting a more balanced life? IF ready to do the work on making your life better, I am the person to come alongside you on that journey. I offer expertise, accountability and practical steps from a mind, spirit and soul perspective, the way we perform at our ultimate best. Complimentary phone consultation. Digital video coaching sessions a possibility. Reasonable sliding rate for quality and experienced service based on package commitment.

Life comes with challenges and obstacles. Whether you are experiencing conflict in a relationship, or are struggling with overwhelming emotions that cause suffering, you are not alone. It can be difficult to see how great you are during these dark times. I am dedicated to helping YOU become empowered to discover your greatness. Together we will work on learning new coping skills and challenging self-defeating thoughts to accomplish and achieve your goals.

Are you feeling a diminished sense of self-confidence? Are you feeling that the way you view yourself is keeping you from experiencing life fully and/or causing you suffering? Are you experiencing nightmares, flashbacks, anxiety, depression, fears, anger, impaired concentration, difficulties at work, school or home? If you answered "yes" to any question, you may be reacting to trauma.

I provide trauma-informed and anti-oppressive individual, couples, and family therapy. I provide my clients with a space to explore their thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and beliefs. I work with clients, from preteens through adulthood, who are experiencing depression, anxiety, trauma, grief and loss, life stressors, identity development, relationship issues, and family conflict. I draw from a range of clinical modalities, to create an approach that is personal for each client. I believe one of the most important parts of therapy is working collaboratively with my clients to foster an environment of personal growth and healing.

I am an experienced couples and individual therapist with specialties in Imago therapy (see ellenolerlcsw.com for description and details) as well as addictions and recovery. I have offices in Brooklyn & midtown Manhattan. My presence is warm, friendly, open & relational. I am comfortable discussing spiritual issues as well as depression, anxiety, family and work challenges. Please see my website for more at ellenolerlcsw.com

I am a Marriage and Family Psychotherapist in private practice in Brooklyn for over thirty years and formerly Director of Family Services at a large, multi-modal, private counseling center in Manhattan. Although continuing to work with individuals, for the last twenty years my continued training and professional focus has been on couples, children, and families as it became increasingly clear that engaging the family group was so much more effective and efficient. This comes not merely from having the additional information, but from being able to mobilize the inherent strength of the family and its' intrinsic, natural movement towards growth.

Since the age of eight, I have regularly attended counseling, and it saved me. Decades later, counseling has become my calling--my desire to share the techniques that help us cope with the forces in our lives we cannot control. As a natural advocate of mental, physical, and spiritual health, I also teach yoga regularly. I believe that we reach a state of peace, when we take our lives into our own hands. My mission is to help you build your individual strength, gain insight, and develop effective ways of coping with life and relationships.

I believe you. Whatever you are going through is real. No one asks to be abused. We all deserve the right to live our life free of emotional, physical, sexual and structural violence. My work focuses on helping you thrive through whatever it is you are experiencing. It's not just about coping with our stressors, our symptoms, our problems, our traumas - it's about learning how to thrive in spite of it all. Thriving Through Life. Thriving Through Trauma. Thriving Through Happiness. I provide therapy for individuals, group therapy counseling, workshops, consultations, advocacy work and clinical supervision.

I work with individuals in a supportive and creative environment to open dialogue and explore life's challenges. The opportunity to engage in verbal or non-verbal expression can support to reframe the past, their thoughts, emotions, life patterns, and to discover a deeper awareness of themselves.

As a clinical psychologist my goal is to help patients find ways to help themselves be happier and more satisfied with their lives. Many people come to therapy because they are anxious or depressed. They have trouble finding or sustaining meaningful relationships. Sometimes one member of a family is having difficulties and the whole family is suffering. The goal of treatment is to begin to talk openly and honestly about the obstacles in ones life and to think about how to move forward.