Child Therapists in Demarest, NJ

Neuropsychological evaluations will provide you with the most comprehensive understanding regarding your student's processing abilities, executive functions, and how to successfully address any observed deficits. I have been a trusted professional for many pediatricians, public and private schools, and parents. My evaluations will yield information to tailor make individual instructional strategies for your student to be implemented by teachers, tutors, and parents.

Therapy can be a healing and ultimately freeing journey. In my experience, it allows individuals at any age to get in touch with and learn to understand their feelings. In being able to better understand ourselves, we can better recognize not only what prevents us, but also, what allows us to have a more fulfilling life. There is no better feeling as a therapist than seeing your clients realize and embrace their inner strengths, humbling resilience, and acquire the tools to manage their struggles in healthier and more productive ways.

Whether you’re facing emotional challenges ranging from anxiety to depression, isolation or loss, or just having difficulty managing the stress of your day-to-day life, I can help you on your journey as you move forward. My practice centers on an integrative approach to healing. Trained as a dance/movement psychotherapist, I blend together a psychodynamic framework with both expressive and behavioral strategies. It is here where you will experience authenticity and resilience. I enjoy working with adolescents, young people and women.

As we transition from the COVID 19 pandemic, and people face unprecedented challenges mental health needs are complex for people of all ages. I provide teletherapy sessions as well as some limited in person sessions. As always, I work collaboratively with clients using a relational lens to consider the meaning of important relationships, family, work, culture, health, trauma, special needs and more will be the basis of the therapeutic process. I like to think of therapy as a safe space that is a resource to have active conversation with privacy and dignity. I am happy to answer questions through a phone consultation.

My practice is open to kids (ages 9+), adolescents, adults, and couples with a range of psychological challenges including: depression, anxiety, alcohol & other drug addiction, marital/relationship problems, adjustment stressors, anger management, sports/peak performance, and career development. Clients who enjoy an approachable, interactive, and collaborative relationship benefit from working with me. I have extensive experience working with high school and college students. My approach is grounded in positive psychology and CBT, and the role of fitness & nutrition in optimal psychological health!

Each of us is a truly original, unrepeatable, irreplaceable, unique, sacred, precious, creative, talented and healthy self that through a process of nature and nurture spends each moment of time evolving and expressing ourselves through love, compassion, caring, empathy and other virtuous relationships. Therapy is a process of celebrating the evolution of each person's true self. It is our way, modern and ancient, eastern and western, artistic and technological, spiritual and practical of Self development. Therapy is also our newest and oldest path of protecting, nurturing, supporting and upholding all that is virtuous, positive, meritorious, innocent, ethical, benevolent and philanthropic in ourselves while learning to handle, manage, cope, organize, and select our purpose, meaning and priorities in life. Therapy teaches us the surivival skills that help us become efficacious and masterful in life. We establish, goals we wish to achieve, priorities we wish to establish, a clear plan of action, which evolves as we evolve, with the help of a trained professional who respects both our free will and our fate, our unique mission and our destiny.

I believe that my work is in helping clients walk less blindly through life. I try to ask questions to clarify the principles underlying the ways they relate to the world and others. I help not only with common problems (anxiety, depression, PTSD, phobias, OCD, etc.) but also work with those whose issues are not easily captured by a diagnosis and are existential in nature. The so-called "worried well" come to uncover and work through the sources of internal struggles, in order to become their best selves and live a more fulfilling life. I am fully bilingual and practice in both English and Russian.