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Emotionally Focused (EFT) Therapists in New York

Find the right therapist in New York for you. Each profile lists the insurances the provider takes, typical costs per session, and how to get in contact.
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Chuck HancockC

Chuck Hancock

LPC
Online & In-PersonAccepting New Clients
How does emotionally focused therapy work and how can it help?
Emotionally focused therapy helps us understand the deeper emotional needs, fears, and attachment patterns that shape how you relate to yourself and others. Often, the struggles we experience in relationships are not simply about communication problems, but about longing, protection, fear, vulnerability, and unmet needs. In therapy, we gently explore the emotional patterns that repeat in your relationships — such as withdrawing, pursuing, shutting down, people-pleasing, becoming reactive, or feeling unseen. Rather than judging these responses, we look at what they are trying to protect and what they may be asking for. This approach can help you become more aware of your emotional world, communicate with more honesty, and develop more secure and connected relationships. It can also support healing around attachment wounds, grief, intimacy struggles, and long-standing relational pain. The goal is not just to think differently, but to experience yourself and your relationships in a more connected, compassionate, and emotionally alive way.
My work is depth-oriented, relational, and mind-body centered. That means we don’t just focus on managing symptoms — we listen for what your struggles are trying to say. I draw from Jungian and psychodynamic psychotherapy, attachment theory, somatic awareness, and dreamwork. Together, we pay attention to patterns, emotions, relationships, and the symbolic language of the psyche. Therapy becomes a place where insight, emotional experience, and embodied awareness come together. I see therapy as a collaborative process. The relationship itself matters, and change often happens through genuine understanding and meeting — sometimes for the first time. I’m a licensed psychotherapist with over 15 years of experience in private practice. I'm currently in training with JPA in New York for archetypal psychoanalytic psychotherapy and have trained in EMDR, IFS, RLT, CBT, Hakomi, and more. I offer individual and group psychotherapy, and working with adults across a wide range of life concerns.
Malka ShawM

Malka Shaw

LCSW
Online & In-PersonAccepting New Clients
I've been a licensed clinical social worker for over twenty five years, and in that time I've learned that most people don't come to therapy because they want to talk about their problems. They come because they're ready for something to actually change. My training is in trauma, and EMDR has been a core part of how I work for a long time now, but the bulk of my practice is with women navigating a major shift, dating again after years out of the field, going through a divorce or a breakup, becoming a mother, working through midlife issues, or dealing with work related stress and burnout. I also work with couples who are trying to figure out whether they can rebuild something or whether they're ready to move on, and either way, want to do it with more clarity than they came in with. What tends to set my work apart is that I never treat a person's background, whatever it is, as separate from what's actually going on with them clinically. That comes out of years spent developing a real depth in Jewish cultural competency the psychological impact of antisemitism , work I also train other clinicians and organizations in, but the underlying skill is the same no matter who is sitting across from me, understanding the full context someone is carrying and working with it, not around it. I've been in private practice since 2008. If you're looking for someone who takes what's going on seriously and has the years behind her to know what actually helps, I'd be glad to talk.