Dissociative Disorders (DID) Therapists in New Haven, CT
I am Certified in EMDR. EMDR is a trauma therapy which research has shown to be highly effective. The most important characteristics of a good therapist are intelligent listening, the ability to use multiple skills according to the needs of the client, and most importantly, compassion. I have worked with depression and anxiety (among other issues) for 31 years. It is very difficult to seek help at a time when one is most vulnerable and I am especially sensitive to this with my clients.
I am Certified in EMDR. EMDR is a trauma therapy which research has shown to be highly effective. The most important characteristics of a good therapist are intelligent listening, the ability to use multiple skills according to the needs of the client, and most importantly, compassion. I have worked with depression and anxiety (among other issues) for 31 years. It is very difficult to seek help at a time when one is most vulnerable and I am especially sensitive to this with my clients.
Anxiety and depression are at all-time highs lately, and finding help has gotten very difficult. I am a goal-oriented therapist with 20 years of experience working in the areas of trauma, anxiety, depression, dissociation, and more. I am looking for clients who want to work to make changes to how they feel and how they live their lives.
Anxiety and depression are at all-time highs lately, and finding help has gotten very difficult. I am a goal-oriented therapist with 20 years of experience working in the areas of trauma, anxiety, depression, dissociation, and more. I am looking for clients who want to work to make changes to how they feel and how they live their lives.
Benedicte Aarestrup
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
New Haven, CT 06511
How you were raised and loved is essential to your experience of self and the way you show up in relationships. I believe, at the heart of therapy there is a journey to explore what gets in the way of nurturing deep and authentic relationships that support both togetherness and individuality. I work with couples (queer/hetero, monogamous/open) who experience heartaches around sexuality, trust, infidelity, parenting – as well as couples simply looking for support with growing deeper and being more present with each other and themselves. Sessions are a full 60 minutes in length, and couples sessions are 75 minutes.
How you were raised and loved is essential to your experience of self and the way you show up in relationships. I believe, at the heart of therapy there is a journey to explore what gets in the way of nurturing deep and authentic relationships that support both togetherness and individuality. I work with couples (queer/hetero, monogamous/open) who experience heartaches around sexuality, trust, infidelity, parenting – as well as couples simply looking for support with growing deeper and being more present with each other and themselves. Sessions are a full 60 minutes in length, and couples sessions are 75 minutes.
Our work together begins by starting where you’re at. Then, we’ll engage based on where you’re at and work together to build a trusting relationship. We’ll jointly identify the pieces to your personal mental wellness puzzle and put them together.
Our work together begins by starting where you’re at. Then, we’ll engage based on where you’re at and work together to build a trusting relationship. We’ll jointly identify the pieces to your personal mental wellness puzzle and put them together.
Psychoanalysis is a method to develop the inner life. As a side effect, suffering is relieved and the outer life is improved.
Psychoanalysis is a method to develop the inner life. As a side effect, suffering is relieved and the outer life is improved.
Meghan Kenia
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
New Haven, CT 06511 (Online Only)
As a therapist, I describe my style as warm, empathic, and collaborative. My approach is grounded in connection and trust - I believe that we heal through relationships in which we feel safe enough to be our authentic selves. I aim to create a safe space where we explore, process, and grow together. A space in which you can share your story – the beautiful and the painful parts. I believe in the uniqueness of each individual and adapt my therapeutic approach accordingly.
As a therapist, I describe my style as warm, empathic, and collaborative. My approach is grounded in connection and trust - I believe that we heal through relationships in which we feel safe enough to be our authentic selves. I aim to create a safe space where we explore, process, and grow together. A space in which you can share your story – the beautiful and the painful parts. I believe in the uniqueness of each individual and adapt my therapeutic approach accordingly.
Nicole Ventura
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC, RDT
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
New Haven, CT 06511
You're sick of waiting. It's time to treat your mental health as if it were a knife in your arm; you deserve immediate and careful attention. You need someone who will challenge and support you, someone who can share the load. You want to confront your issues head-on, knowing that it might not always be pretty. But you are worth it, whether you believe it or not. It is time to dive deep, prioritize your mental health, and find relief. Reclaim your voice, reclaim your body. If you're looking to get to work, look no further.
You're sick of waiting. It's time to treat your mental health as if it were a knife in your arm; you deserve immediate and careful attention. You need someone who will challenge and support you, someone who can share the load. You want to confront your issues head-on, knowing that it might not always be pretty. But you are worth it, whether you believe it or not. It is time to dive deep, prioritize your mental health, and find relief. Reclaim your voice, reclaim your body. If you're looking to get to work, look no further.
Lisa Hardy-Gardner
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LMSW, LCSW, ELIG, Under, Supervi
Verified Verified
New Haven, CT 06511 (Online Only)
My ideal clients are individuals, families, adults, and the elderly who need assistance with life transitions, trauma, emotional struggles, identity issues, relationships, career difficulties, infertility, maternal/child health/grief/loss, or aging processes. Individuals may feel overwhelmed by unresolved emotions, past experiences, or recurring patterns in their behavior that hinder personal growth and relationships. They aim to gain clarity, achieve emotional healing, and develop a stronger sense of self. Ultimately, they seek empowerment, resilience, and the ability to create lasting, positive changes in their lives.
My ideal clients are individuals, families, adults, and the elderly who need assistance with life transitions, trauma, emotional struggles, identity issues, relationships, career difficulties, infertility, maternal/child health/grief/loss, or aging processes. Individuals may feel overwhelmed by unresolved emotions, past experiences, or recurring patterns in their behavior that hinder personal growth and relationships. They aim to gain clarity, achieve emotional healing, and develop a stronger sense of self. Ultimately, they seek empowerment, resilience, and the ability to create lasting, positive changes in their lives.
Anne Dutton
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, RYT 500, C-IAYT
Verified Verified
New Haven, CT 06511
Psychotherapy is a collaboration between therapist and client. It makes use of the strengths, resources and goals of the client and the supportive attunement, non-judgmental perspective, training and experience of the therapist. Many of my clients come to me because they want to incorporate mindfulness and somatic therapies with talk therapy in order to work more effectively with anxiety, depression, pain and other challenges.
Psychotherapy is a collaboration between therapist and client. It makes use of the strengths, resources and goals of the client and the supportive attunement, non-judgmental perspective, training and experience of the therapist. Many of my clients come to me because they want to incorporate mindfulness and somatic therapies with talk therapy in order to work more effectively with anxiety, depression, pain and other challenges.
Shauntel Lucius
Professional Counselor Associate, MA, LPC-A
Verified Verified
New Haven, CT 06501 (Online Only)
Mental wellness has always been at the forefront of my experience. Growing up in a Caribbean culture, I have witnessed pervasive stigma around mental health. It has always motivated me to be a trailblazer in the field. My focus centers around helping patients work towards an optimal, fulfilling, and productive life.
Mental wellness has always been at the forefront of my experience. Growing up in a Caribbean culture, I have witnessed pervasive stigma around mental health. It has always motivated me to be a trailblazer in the field. My focus centers around helping patients work towards an optimal, fulfilling, and productive life.
Stephanie Ochoa
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC
Verified Verified
New Haven, CT 06511 (Online Only)
I am passionate about partnering with individuals on their mental wellness journeys! I love helping people navigate their emotions, quiet their persistent worries, and heal from their burdens through authentic, non-judgmental support.
I am passionate about partnering with individuals on their mental wellness journeys! I love helping people navigate their emotions, quiet their persistent worries, and heal from their burdens through authentic, non-judgmental support.
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Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
New Haven, CT 06511
I have been in the field for over 40 years, and previously on the faculty, Yale School of Medicine having worked in a wide array of settings with individuals, couples, families and groups including pre-teens - older adults and in prevention/health promotion. People come to therapy for all kinds of reasons - relationship problems, loss, feeling stressed, weight management - the list is endless and personal. I work to develop a supportive, trusting relationship and help guide people to more clearly understand what is troubling them, to move toward living more satisfying and productive lives.
I have been in the field for over 40 years, and previously on the faculty, Yale School of Medicine having worked in a wide array of settings with individuals, couples, families and groups including pre-teens - older adults and in prevention/health promotion. People come to therapy for all kinds of reasons - relationship problems, loss, feeling stressed, weight management - the list is endless and personal. I work to develop a supportive, trusting relationship and help guide people to more clearly understand what is troubling them, to move toward living more satisfying and productive lives.
Starting therapy and facing life's most difficult challenges may be intimidating. To help reduce your anxiety about treatment, I work to provide an open, warm, and accepting environment. I believe each individual is capable of using their strengths and wisdom to tackle problems and having the right therapist enhances these capabilities. I challenge clients to develop new skills and insights to aid in healing and live a better life by employing an integrative therapeutic framework utilizing psychodynamic, relational, and behavior theories including mindfulness and Dialectical Behavior therapy.
Starting therapy and facing life's most difficult challenges may be intimidating. To help reduce your anxiety about treatment, I work to provide an open, warm, and accepting environment. I believe each individual is capable of using their strengths and wisdom to tackle problems and having the right therapist enhances these capabilities. I challenge clients to develop new skills and insights to aid in healing and live a better life by employing an integrative therapeutic framework utilizing psychodynamic, relational, and behavior theories including mindfulness and Dialectical Behavior therapy.
Prosperity Community Services
Drug & Alcohol Counselor, LADC, APRN, LPCA
Verified Verified
New Haven, CT 06511
It is our mission to empower individuals in resolving their problems with different life challenges. With our holistic and personalized services, we aim to guide them in understanding their issues and finding healthier and more effective ways of dealing with them. Prosperity Counseling, LLC provides a structured experience of evidence-based strategies that are designed to promote self-sufficiency as a basis for a transformed life. We specialize in Addiction, Individual, Couples/Family, and Adolescent/Children counseling. We also offer Medication Management, and other Addiction specific resources.
It is our mission to empower individuals in resolving their problems with different life challenges. With our holistic and personalized services, we aim to guide them in understanding their issues and finding healthier and more effective ways of dealing with them. Prosperity Counseling, LLC provides a structured experience of evidence-based strategies that are designed to promote self-sufficiency as a basis for a transformed life. We specialize in Addiction, Individual, Couples/Family, and Adolescent/Children counseling. We also offer Medication Management, and other Addiction specific resources.
I specialize in helping people overcome PTSD, phobias, complicated grief, and triggers from childhood or the recent past. When a person has experienced a trauma, the event and emotions often get stuck on repeat in the brain, and a person can experience interrupted sleep, bad dreams, and constant replaying of the images of the event. Phobias are often linked to a past memory, conscious or unconscious, and can be cured when that initial memory is healed. Complicated grief can keep a person stuck in one aspect of grief, without allowing full healing and acceptance to come. Triggers happen in the present because of unresolved wounds
I specialize in helping people overcome PTSD, phobias, complicated grief, and triggers from childhood or the recent past. When a person has experienced a trauma, the event and emotions often get stuck on repeat in the brain, and a person can experience interrupted sleep, bad dreams, and constant replaying of the images of the event. Phobias are often linked to a past memory, conscious or unconscious, and can be cured when that initial memory is healed. Complicated grief can keep a person stuck in one aspect of grief, without allowing full healing and acceptance to come. Triggers happen in the present because of unresolved wounds
I view my role as a therapist as one of helping people to deal with the problems, issues and/or transitions they are facing that are making it difficult to live life to the fullest. If you are feeling depressed or anxious, struggling with problems related to relationships, including divorce and parenting, loss, past or present trauma, work, and/or other issues, the therapeutic relationship can bring help, support, hope, healing, and energy to live your life more fully in the present.
I view my role as a therapist as one of helping people to deal with the problems, issues and/or transitions they are facing that are making it difficult to live life to the fullest. If you are feeling depressed or anxious, struggling with problems related to relationships, including divorce and parenting, loss, past or present trauma, work, and/or other issues, the therapeutic relationship can bring help, support, hope, healing, and energy to live your life more fully in the present.
Jessica Richardson
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
New Haven, CT 06511 (Online Only)
Waitlist for new clients
I’m passionate about trauma work and caring for patients with suicidal thoughts or behaviors. It is truly rewarding to see people get better through the use of evidence-based therapies. We'll work together to create a collaborative, non-judgmental space. Then we will identify, evaluate, and change your unhelpful or upsetting thoughts. My goal is to help reduce your symptoms and unhelpful thoughts — so you feel better.
I’m passionate about trauma work and caring for patients with suicidal thoughts or behaviors. It is truly rewarding to see people get better through the use of evidence-based therapies. We'll work together to create a collaborative, non-judgmental space. Then we will identify, evaluate, and change your unhelpful or upsetting thoughts. My goal is to help reduce your symptoms and unhelpful thoughts — so you feel better.
We all experience periods in our lives when we need additional support. Whether you are confronting a major life change or just haven't been yourself lately, as your therapist I will listen carefully to understand what you are experiencing. My main goal is to give you perspective on the problem and help you identify the route by which you would like to move through it. When needed, I teach coping skills drawn from my own use of mindfulness, as well as relaxation, distress tolerance, and emotion regulation techniques. With your permission, I collaborate with your medication prescriber as needed.
We all experience periods in our lives when we need additional support. Whether you are confronting a major life change or just haven't been yourself lately, as your therapist I will listen carefully to understand what you are experiencing. My main goal is to give you perspective on the problem and help you identify the route by which you would like to move through it. When needed, I teach coping skills drawn from my own use of mindfulness, as well as relaxation, distress tolerance, and emotion regulation techniques. With your permission, I collaborate with your medication prescriber as needed.
To be witnessed in giving words to suffering is a kind of bringing to light of what had previously been in the shadow. When we take the risk to expose underlying fear and shame and identify it’s corresponding experience of harm, we have the opportunity to shift generalized patterns, separating the past from the present and unlearning past conditioning that no longer serve us.
To be witnessed in giving words to suffering is a kind of bringing to light of what had previously been in the shadow. When we take the risk to expose underlying fear and shame and identify it’s corresponding experience of harm, we have the opportunity to shift generalized patterns, separating the past from the present and unlearning past conditioning that no longer serve us.
Obadiah Judah Muhammad
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LCSW
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
New Haven, CT 06520
Everyone is chasing happiness - an emotion that comes and goes - but perhaps what you are truly seeking is the state of peace. Making peace with our past while maintaining hope for the future may seem impossible right now, but that is where I can help. "You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?" (Rumi)
Everyone is chasing happiness - an emotion that comes and goes - but perhaps what you are truly seeking is the state of peace. Making peace with our past while maintaining hope for the future may seem impossible right now, but that is where I can help. "You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?" (Rumi)
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Dissociative Disorders (DID) Therapists
How does therapy for dissociative disorders work?
Dissociation may be triggered by stress or other upsetting circumstances, and therapy can address the traumatic events at the core of an individual’s dissociation. Understanding why a person may dissociate can help the therapist and the individual come up with alternative methods of coping. A person with a dissociative disorder may get stuck on negative thinking, for example, and treatment like Cognitive behavioral therapy is a gold standard for breaking such thinking. And dialectical behavior therapy, for example, can help a person manage their anguish through better emotion regulation.
Which therapies are best for dissociative disorders?
Specific approaches used by professionals include cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavior, psychodynamic, schema therapies, among others. Cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior therapies are two widely used therapies that can help individuals with painful memories and past traumas. These therapies work to integrate an individual's different identities into one person.
Are there specific medications for dissociation?
There are no specific medications prescribed for dissociative disorders. However, psychosis, depression, anxiety, and/or panic often co-occur in dissociative disorders. A psychiatrist may prescribe medications for any accompanying symptom—which may include antipsychotics like aripiprazole, antidepressants like selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or anti-anxiety drugs like benzodiazepines.
How often and how long are therapy sessions?
Like any type of therapy, sessions depend on the individual. Patients may see improvement within 15 to 20 sessions, at an average of 50 minutes per session, others may opt for 20 to 30 sessions over, perhaps, a six-month period. There are still other patients, especially those who have co-occurring conditions like depression and anxiety, who may need to continue sessions for up to 12 to 18 months.