Individual Therapy

for Adults

Brooklyn-based therapy practice helping adults to grow and heal across the lifespan

  • Specializing in treating anxiety, depression and trauma

  • Serving adult survivors of childhood trauma struggling with lifelong patterns in relationships.

  • Supporting families in the community for over 15 years

At the heart of all significant issues including anxiety, depression, trauma, and loss are relationships.

Therefore, change must also occur within a relationship and therapy is a unique one which provides the safety, trust and honesty, to foster growth.

As your therapist, I am fully present for you, in a way that even the best intentioned friend or family member may not be, because I do not have an agenda, and I am invested in the decisions you make to improve your quality of life. The start of any healing journey begins with choosing a therapist to work with and individuals can become overwhelmed with which “approach” or “methodology” to pursue.  However, research consistently demonstrates that after the individuals own commitment and engagement with treatment, the relationship with the therapist itself is the most important factor in predicting successful outcomes to treatment.

This is why I offer a complimentary 20 minute consultation call ahead of scheduling an intake session with a potential patient.

Get Started

This call is an opportunity to discuss if my style and practice are a good fit for you to address your specific concerns, challenges, and history.  Therapy is not simply a service to be delivered by a professional, but instead, a dynamic relationship within which changes happens.

LET'S CONNECT

I have an integrative approach within a psychodynamic frame of thinking about treating and supporting individuals to recover from painful wounds and create changes in their lives. 

This means that we will work together to best understand the connection between your past relationships and experiences to your current patterns in relationships, behaviors and beliefs about the self.  Developing insight into beliefs and emotions that are not in your daily awareness, and how they sustain dysfunctional dynamics is an important step in individuals healing journey.  Through creating a safe and consistent space in the therapy room, psychoeducation, and a warm, nonjudgmental rapport with myself, individuals can feel supported in exploring events of the past that they may be avoiding because of the pain it causes.  Insight is a critical foundation upon which to build a treatment, and helps understand the “how and why” but does not always explain the “what now” stage of treatment.  To bridge the gap from the past to changes in the present and future, I integrate strategies, practices and protocols from a variety of approaches.

Trauma

Parenting

Many adult survivors of childhood trauma have built incredibly successful lives for themselves and their own families, but still struggle with people pleasing, assertiveness, decision making, tuning into their own needs, or simply feeling joy. 

Survivors of trauma are often incredibly resilient and can often be regarded by others as a “super person” who seems to always keep cool in stressful situations and can “just do it all.” Understandably trauma survivors often feel instead like they are not how people see them, imposter syndrome or are burnt out from trying to keep all the plates spinning.  Or, are burnt out from feeling like they are constantly caring for everyone else’s needs but feel that their own needs are insignificant to everyone else.

Are you concerned that the trauma you experienced, or a family history of dysfunction, may impact your child?

Many parents who survived trauma as children worry about being an effective parent when they didn’t have a good model of it themselves. Parents all too often make conscious decisions to overprotect or overexpose their children to or from things to prepare them for challenges parents themselves experienced. Learning how to create a sense of safety over our child’s critical developmental periods can feel confusing and overwhelming to someone who did not experience emotional safety themselves as a child. Therapy can be a very effective intervention to support an adults healing journey as well as their sense of efficacy as a parent.

  • What my patients have to say

    “Before working with Jan, I was living with severe complex PTSD and felt trapped in constant fear, flashbacks, depression, and a complete lack of self-worth. My anxiety was so intense it led to panic attacks and even seizures, and I truly could not imagine feeling safe or at peace in my own mind. Jan was the first person who truly saw me, not just my symptoms, but me as a whole person. She helped me understand how deeply my past had affected me, and she did so with extraordinary patience, warmth, and clinical expertise. She has an incredible ability to know exactly what to say, or what to ask, to help you find clarity and strength within yourself. As a therapist myself, I admire her deeply and appreciate how rare that level of attunement and skill truly is. She creates a space where you feel genuinely safe, understood, and never judged. That safety became the foundation for everything that followed in my healing.”

    – Former patient

  • What my patients have to say

    “Since working with Jan, my life has changed in ways I once thought were impossible. I no longer experience panic attacks, but more importantly, I am rebuilding a genuine sense of self-worth and self-love. I am forming healthier relationships, breaking patterns I once felt stuck in, and showing up in my life with more presence, stability, and self-compassion. I feel grounded and capable in a way I never thought I could. Jan did not just help me manage symptoms, she helped me heal at the root and reconnect with parts of myself I thought were lost. I feel stronger, calmer, and more at peace with who I am. As both a client and a therapist, I can say with complete confidence that Jan is truly exceptional. I feel incredibly fortunate to have found her, and I would trust her with anyone I love.”

    – Former patient

  • What my patients have to say

    “Working with Jan during my teenage years was truly life-changing. She provided a safe, steady, and deeply compassionate space during a time when I was still learning who I was and how to navigate big emotions. Jan constantly met me with patience, insight, and genuine care, and she has an incredible ability to make you feel seen and understood without judgment. She also thoughtfully supported my parents throughout the process, while always centering my wellbeing and explaining the work in a way that felt clear and appropriate to me as a young teenager.”

    — Former teenage patient

  • What my patients have to say

    “Through our work together, Jan helped me develop self-awareness, confidence, and coping skills that I continue to use even 10 years after ending treatment together. Finding a therapist you feel safe with and genuinely connected to is essential when navigating big emotions and difficult seasons of life. Jan is absolutely that therapist. I am profoundly grateful for the lasting impact she has had on my growth. In many ways, it is because of Jan that I am now set to graduate with my Doctorate in Counseling Psychology next spring. If I have even half the impact on my clients that Jan had on me, I will consider my work meaningful.”

    — Former teenage patient