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Hi and welcome! Allow me to help guide you towards reaching your goals through genuine therapeutic connection, warmth, and humor. My intention is to create a space safe enough for you to both explore and overcome your symptoms, as well as to help feel successful with your progress and content in your life. I am looking forward to meeting you and creating reachable goals that help you live the life you want to lead.
Weekdays After 5pm
Weekdays Before 9am
Weekdays 9am - 5pm
$$$
Sliding scale
Reflective
Body-based
In-person available: No
Virtual available: Yes
Romantic Life
Vulnerability
Depression
Dating
Self-Reflection
Anxiety
Self-Esteem
Trauma
Out of network providers
NY + 1 more
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Get to Know Alyssa
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Eleni Vradi, Colleague
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The best part of the work for me is when I begin to see my clients shift towards self-kindness and compassion both consciously and unconsciously, which is shown through the change in thoughts and behaviors in everyday life.
I use an empathetic, intentional, and direct approach with my clients. I often use humor and make sure my work is relational in nature. I make sure all of my work is biologically and neurologically informed, so that my clients can understand how the brain interprets relationships and grows from them, from childhood until now.
I encourage an exploration of racial implications in the therapy room, of power dynamics that come up, and of implicit biases that may be hurtful or painful to explore. Using a trauma informed lens, a foundational part of my work is to explore what I do and do not understand about my client, as well as what feels important to them for me to learn about (whether this be ethnicity, race, religion, gender, etc). I remain culturally humble, and pay attention to small shifts in the dynamic that may indicate there is something greater that I am not understanding.
Especially in the beginning of therapy, it can be so difficult for many clients to know or express they are feeling stuck, unseen or unheard. For this reason, I make it part of my practice to pay attention to progress in session, progress outside of session, small microshifts in expression, and subtle communications that something does not feel right. I will always bring this to the room and make it seen so my client knows I see them, and that I care to make therapy feel right.