Interpersonal (IPT) Therapists in New York

All women deserve to have a safe, sensitive, and supportive space to unpack stressors, life transitions, and trauma and learn healthy coping mechanisms and strategies. I tailor treatment to each individual because all clients are unique. I employ an eclectic approach to treatment, incorporating a range of clinical approaches and modalities. Learning directly from you, hearing your story, is the best way to confront the issues that you recognize are impacting your life. Celebrating each and every client’s wins as they work to become their best self and accomplish their goals is my calling. By sharing the tools in my toolbox with clients, I am helping them to achieve success on their own terms. It can be difficult to ask for help when we need it, so it’s a show of great courage that you’re ready to take that step! I’m here to join you on your journey to healing.

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 am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Psychotherapist, practicing virtually in New York City and New York State. I provide individual psychotherapy to clients across the lifespan from the emerging young adult population to those with a few years of lived experienced behind them.   I am a graduate of Columbia University with a Master of Science degree in Social Work, completed intensive foundational training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy through the DBT Training Program and Lab under the direction of Dr. Andre Ivanoff.  I received additional training in prolonged exposure therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), motivational interviewing and behavioral activation training in my studies.  As a post-graduate, I pursued further advancement   based in evidence based practices of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), CBT (through the Beck Institute), DBT, Emotionally Focused Treatment, and Complicated Grief Treatment (through the Center for Prolonged Grief at Columbia University), with additional focus on mindfulness based practices and traditional psychodynamic psychotherapy. I believe in fully supporting my clients to be the drivers of their own life and I’m the GPS — I can help you arrive to where you want to be, and I empower you to make choices that feel most effective, validating and free spirited.  

I am a licensed social worker with 25+ years of experience listening and helping people reach their goals. 

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.

I'm Keeley. I'm a native New Yorker and I've been in practice for about 14+ years. I'm an animal lover, swimmer, wannabe gardener, and mama to the most beautiful little boy, who happens to be on the Autism spectrum. There's pressure these days to reveal one's ethnic identity- I would describe my identity as multicultural that vacillates and varies. I take pride in working with adults of all backgrounds. I've seen the toll that increased success and money can take on a person's relationships with others and with themselves. You may feel socially isolated, misunderstood by family and friends from your past, perhaps even guilt or shame for doing so well while at the same time feeling that your accomplishments aren't enough. I work with high-achievers and (often) new HNW (high net worth) individuals to gain acceptance of their successes and finally feel at peace. I help them gain an understanding of their self-esteem; explore & implement boundaries with others, themselves, work, money; overcome loneliness; reduce stressors that affect their decision-making & financial well-being; and normalize their new power & social status, especially if they are a woman. Therapy is a safe place to confide. I usually describe my therapeutic/coaching style as big sisterish. I'm try to bring in humor but not without transparency. I was trained in a psychodynamic orientation, but like to include elements of other types of therapies.  I like therapy sessions to be both reflective and action-oriented. I've been in this field for about 14 years and have worked with many people just like yourself, in addition to knowing first-hand just what you are going through. You probably have plenty of questions, so please reach out to set up your consultation.