Individual Psychotherapy in Midtown Manhattan, NYC

In-Person Psychotherapy in NYC and Online Throughout New York State

Individual psychotherapy offers a safe and confidential space to explore your thoughts, feelings and behaviors, gain insights into your challenges, and develop strategies for positive change. Bryant West Psychology's caring, supportive and empathetic therapists are happy to guide you through the process and help you optimize your experience.

Your Bryant West Psychologist (or Social Worker) may employ a contemporary relational psychoanalytic perspective in their work, recognizing the complexities of human development in the context of familial, social and societal forces that shape the individual’s journey for both better and worse. Often they may incorporate or work from a number of other evidence-based perspectives and traditions, including Cognitive Behavioral, Dialectic Behavioral, Mindfulness-based, Trauma-Informed, Acceptance and Commitment, and Emotionally Focused Psychotherapies.

As our clinical director, Stephen Schneider, Ph.D. sees it from a “relational” perspective:

Your individualized psychotherapy emerges from your relationship with a caring, supportive and knowledgeable therapist. They will do their best to hear, see and respond to you, draw you out to fully engage, and express yourself emotionally.​ Together with your therapist, you will explore self-defeating internalized messages and patterns of behavior. Such patterns may even emerge in the therapy relationship, where they can be explored and understood, freeing you up to engage more flexibly with others. 

Should your therapist fail you in some critical way, which will happen in relationships with other imperfect and fallible human beings, or when your therapist seems to be the source of some troubling communication, this can be explored openly, with compassion and understanding, increasing your capacity to engage with complex emotional issues with those who are important to you.​ 

Together, you and your therapist will work on new insights, build skills, heal old wounds and welcome back into the room — into the therapy relationship — aspects of yourself that you have been forced to abandon or hide but which may contain your passions, vitality, healthy aggression, sexuality and creative capacity to engage, grow, adapt, experience and live your life more fully. ​

Together, you and your therapist will encourage the emergence of that person you most long to be who can seek greater fulfillment, joy and passion and is more equipped to bear the inevitable pain and sorrows of your unique and authentic journey through life.

Issues Addressed in Individual Psychotherapy

Together with your therapist, you may work on the following topics within a safe, personalized therapy setting:

• Healing the wounds of past trauma and increasing resiliency
• Gaining valuable insight into how past relationships affect the present
• Reframing self-defeating internalized messages and patterns of behavior
• Building your sense of (power) agency and control over your life
• Improving sexual performance and satisfaction
• Daring to show up more authentically, based on your values and aspirations
• Mastering self-regulation skills and techniques to find greater peace of mind
• Letting go of defenses and over-accommodations that inhibit your growth
• Acquiring new coping and interpersonal skills
• Navigating issues of identity, gender and sexuality
• Grieving and mourning losses to help you move forward on your journey
• Learning to engage complex emotional issues with those important to you
• Reintegrating aspects of yourself you have been forced to abandon or hide
• Encouraging the emergence of that person you most long to be
• Changing old self-defeating patterns of relating and coping
• Practicing self-compassion and enhanced self-care
• Freeing yourself to engage your life more creatively, freely and passionately

 

Reach Out Now to Begin Your Individual Psychotherapy Journey