Attachment-based Therapists in New York

Welcome. I provide counseling to individual adults who would like support living with the of trauma, and working with chronic depression and anxiety. I utilize a trauma informed lens with a gradual insight building approach to explore the whole person in relationship with their environment. I am also keen to create space to examine contrasting value systems, its generational impact, and observe the nuances of how our past experiences shows up present day. Together we learn how we can reconcile the influences of the past, practice the present, and continue to access choices with vitality moving forward. We do this a moment at a time.

Are you suffering from anxiety, anger, a loss of direction, trauma, or low self-esteem? Are your relationships with your significant other, family, friends, or co-workers strained? Are you feeling overwhelmed, and unable to manage problems that inevitably affect your health and decision-making? It sounds like you're in need of support. Together, we'll figure out how things got to this point... I will honor the uniqueness of your experiences and help you achieve your goals. Regardless of how complicated your situation is, I will support you through dissection, healing, and rebuilding. Call me today to schedule your initial session. I look forward to working with you!

I grew up living on the island of Antigua and in New York City. Having such an experience has allowed me to be culturally sensitive, and more aware and curious about differences and commonalities in culture, family dynamics, and parenting styles. My approach is eclectic and client centered. I believe people already have the answers they seek, and my responsibility is to assist in the discovery of these answers. My approach also involves mindfulness and movement to guide clients towards feeling safe in the body. My practice disrupts transgenerational patterns that perpetuate silence and secrecy around sexual abuse and other adverse childhood experiences.

My goal is to establish a collaborative relationship with the client directed toward wholeness and their personal growth and transformation. I strive to move away from the stigma and labeling that traditional abnormal psychology offers and focus on my client's strengths and mutually developed goals to help them reach their highest potential. Body-mind-spirit integration is my personal life foundation, and it is the core of my therapeutic approach. I provide individual and couples therapy for the issues of depression, anxiety, self-esteem, communication issues, relationship difficulties, life transitions, coping with stress, chronic illness, cancer, bereavement counseling, caregiver support, maternal mental health, and many more. I integrate my unique specialty as a Certified MARI (Mandala Assessment Research Instrument) Practitioner, one of the very few fully certified in the US, to offer a comprehensive psychological assessment and turn this modality into a life-changing experience. I’m an eclectic therapist, combining different approaches that are geared toward individual goals of each client and ultimately lead to their own path of healing and overall wellness.

I help people to step into their fullest, most empowered lives - with wholeness, presence, purpose and peace. I work with adult individuals from all walks of life to support their journeys of healing, realizing greater potential, expressing themselves more fully, loving themselves more deeply, and breaking through their limiting beliefs and harmful patterns. I’m committed to creating a welcoming environment that’s diverse, equitable, inclusive, and anti-racist.

In my work, I take an integrative approach to each person, knowing that we are the sum of our parts. I draw from my extensive training, studies and lived experiences in mindfulness, somatic & nervous system based therapies, attachment theory, psychodynamic theory and many other therapeutic approaches. I am warm and empathetic and easily create a compassionate, safe and collaborative environment while also being direct. This serves as the foundation of our therapeutic relationship and catalyst for gaining helpful insight and creating meaningful and lasting change in your life. We will look at long-standing behavior patterns, negative perceptions and limiting beliefs that are holding you back and work to implement the changes you need to make to move forward and create a life you love and celebrate!  

Sometimes our thoughts can lead us to feeling overwhelmed and trapped in our own heads. Allow me to help you unpack those negative thoughts, and empower you to create positive affirming ones. My goal is to work together with my clients to aid them in getting better acquainted with their emotions, and help them understand the relationship between their thoughts feelings and behaviors. As your therapist I will help you navigate various pressures, and triggers in order to be more insightful as a means of coping. My specialties include work with children, adolescents, adults, families, couples, and the LGBTQIA+ community whom are coping with anxiety, depression, body image, life changes, bi-polar disorder, ADHD, and other related conditions. Starting therapy and opening up to someone can be unnerving. Building a therapeutic alliance takes time, and trust. When working with clients, our foundation towards progress would be building rapport in order to establish goals, and work towards progress. I invite you to schedule a FREE 20 minute meet and greet ( consultation) to discuss how I can further support your needs and to gain a sense of familiarity with one another. 

As a board certified creative arts therapist & mental health counselor, I am committed to creating a safe, trusting and collaborative environment through a person-centered approach. Based on your goals in therapy, we will work together to utilize psychotherapy, art therapy, or a combination of the two to facilitate growth while restoring emotional and mental health. As each individual's experiences and needs are unique, I take a holistic approach to our work together that draws on trauma informed treatment and attachment theory. My therapeutic experiences with young children through older adults range from anxiety disorders, substance use, family members and children of loved ones who use substances, through major mental illness. ​ Art therapy embraces the creative process and materials as a therapeutic and healing experience, instead of focusing on the product. The utilization of art making as intervention has been especially impactful as a gateway for communication and connection between body and mind and allows us to tap into our subconscious to externalize things we may have difficulty verbalizing. You do not need to have artistic experience but a desire to explore feelings, reconcile emotional conflicts, foster self-awareness, manage behavior, develop social skills, reduce anxiety and increase self-esteem to practice art therapy.