Psychoanalysis, ARt Therapy
& Mental Health Counseling
EASTCHESTER & VIRTUAL IN NEW YORK & FLORIDA
INDIVIDUAL THERAPY FOR ADULTS
Are you seeking deeper self-awareness and more fulfilling connection to yourself and others? Maybe you feel stuck in patterns of anxiety, self-doubt, or relational struggles. Maybe you’re navigating life transitions, parenting challenges, or complex family dynamics. Together we can work to understand the meaning behind your feelings and choices and explore your emotional world while developing healthier ways to cope. In my practice, I collaborate with you to create a space where you can feel truly seen and heard. Together we can work towards clarity, healing, resilience, and lasting transformation.
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As a psychoanalyst, Kathryn is trained to go deeper on core issues to elicit profound and sustainable results. ​She enjoys a diverse practice and has helped people seeking support for various struggles and hardships including: anxiety, relationship issues, low self-esteem, trauma and PTSD, ADHD, chronic pain, depression, dissociative disorders, borderline personality disorder (BPD), dual diagnosis, family conflict, grief, life transitions, OCD, parenting stress, self-esteem, and issues related to sexuality, sexual orientation, and gender identity. ​​​​​​​
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PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
Psychodynamic psychotherapy contrast shallow solution-focused and quick-fix types of treatment. Psychodynamic therapy is often long-term and uniquely personal. The approach values phenomenological perspectives and private experience and aims to inspire insight into unconscious thoughts and feelings.
Throughout treatment, patients are helped to go deeper on specific issues. Patients are encouraged to reflect on early and current experiences and relationships and explore their impact on self-concept and wellbeing. Psychodynamic psychotherapy may be an especially good fit for people struggling with long-term, recurrent problems and those who wish to expand their psychic life.​​​​​
CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOANALYSIS
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Contemporary psychoanalysis is effective and in-depth, requiring sessions multiple times per week to inspire dynamic results. Meeting twice or more per week helps access traction on complex issues and allows us to slow down and thoughtfully process experiences in a comprehensive way that honors past and psychic influences.
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High achievers and successful professionals often seek out intensive psychoanalytic work to address long-standing patterns that are ingrained in their routines and relationships. Kathryn's contemporary approach to psychoanalysis is well suited for the demanding schedules of modern professionals and parents.
Kathryn graduated from a five-year post-graduate training program at Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, where is is currently the co-director of the licensure qualifying program. In her training, she learned about the theories and practices of relational psychoanalysis. Use of the couch is optional. ​
COUPLES THERAPY
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Couples therapy helps enhance relationship satisfaction, intimacy, and communication, while working to reduce arguments and uncertainty about the relationship. Kathryn's approach to working with couples focuses on attachment and aims to nurture the bond between you and your partner. Through the couple's therapy process, you will learn about yourself, your role in the conflict, your attachment style, and how to get your needs met in a healthy, collaborative way. Additionally, you will gain a more intimate knowledge of your partner. Many couples seek out counseling during crisis, and couples therapy certainly can help during the most difficult times. However, couples also benefit from proactive couples counseling.​
ART THERAPY
Art therapy is a form of expressive psychotherapy that incorporates art making and creative techniques into the therapy process. In the context of art therapy, patients may dare to create, experience, and play with personal meaning.
Art therapist are mental health professionals trained in psychotherapy and various art disciplines.You do not need to be an artist to benefit from art therapy. Treatment is a collaborative and highly personal journey tailored to your needs, goals, and preferences.​​
ART THERAPY FOR TRAUMA
Traumatic memories evade words. They store instead in images and sensations. Communicating through visual metaphor mitigates anxiety, bypasses linear narration, and allows for decreased defenses.
By incorporating non-verbal processing, art therapy transcends language and affords unique advantages to survivors of trauma. Trauma-informed art therapy interventions aim to counteract fragmentation and dissociation by cultivating integration, hope, and trust essential for survivors’ intimacy and empathy with self and others.
​THERAPY WITH CHILDREN
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Many children struggle to identify and regulate their feelings. When this happens children sometimes react and express themselves in problematic ways. In the context of therapy, children learn to safely explore their inner and outer worlds through pictures, play, and stories. Art and play therapies promote agency, emotional regulation, enhanced mood, and adaptive decision making.
Kathryn has experience working with children struggling to navigate a variety of difficult circumstances including bereavement, divorce, and foster care. She embraces an eclectic and multimodal approach for working with children and their primary care givers. Kathryn provides practical and compassionate parent training skills to help parents understand and effectively respond to their child’s needs.
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As a mother of two, Kathryn is versed in communicating with children and believes the parent-child bond is paramount. Her approach to working with kids always engages the parents and prioritizes the parent-child relationship.
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Kathryn has extensive experience working with children who have survived complex trauma. She currently partners with Children's Aid, NYC to provide home-based psychotherapy services for children in medical foster care.
During her time working with New York City Administration for Children's Services and Forestdale Foster Care, Kathryn completed training and certification in trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT). This evidenced-based treatment approach is designed to help children and adolescents who have been impacted by trauma and their parents or caregivers. Research demonstrates that TF-CBT treatment helps children and teens successfully resolve emotional and behavioral difficulties associated with trauma. TF-CBT is an effective treatment for children who have survived single-episode trauma as well as those who have survived multiple and complex traumas. While Kathryn draws on key elements of the TF-CBT model, she does not adhere rigidly to the manual. Her approach integrates attachment theory and psychodyanmic principles, emphasizing attunement, creativity, and respect for each child's individuality and developmental needs.
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Kathryn highly recommends children be seen in person in her Westchester office.
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CLINICAL SUPERVISION
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Kathryn offers clinical supervision for emerging and experienced therapists who are looking to deepen their clinical work through a psychodynamic and relational lens. As a supervisor, she is passionate about supporting clinicians in developing their unique therapeutic voice, strengthening their clinical intuition, and navigating the complexities of the therapeutic relationship.
Kathryn works with both clinicians in training who are working toward licensure, as well as fully licensed therapists who are seeking ongoing consultation to enrich their practice. She has particular interest in working with art therapists and psychoanalytically oriented clinicians, and provides a reflective space to explore transference and countertransference, clinical impasses, unconscious processes, and the nuanced use of creativity and symbolism in therapy.
Her supervision style is collaborative, thoughtful, and attuned to your needs as a developing or seasoned clinician. Together, you and she will explore the emotional, theoretical, and technical dimensions of your work, with the aim of supporting your growth and deepening your capacity to help others.
If you are interested in supervision, please feel free to reach out to discuss working together.​​