Therapists in Highland, NY

As a holistic psychotherapist and deep soul diver, I view every life as a sacred story that is open to interpretation, especially your own. In many ways, I consider myself a spiritual midwife of sorts, helping you emerge from difficult life transitions with more confidence, clarity, and compassion for yourself and others because, after all, we're only human. I take an intuitive, informed and sometimes playful approach to self discovery that respects each person's unique strengths, gifts, and situation. My clients often tell me they feel very seen and understood, and that my insights are very helpful.

Take a moment and imagine what your life might look like if you accomplished the goals you set for yourself. If you feel stuck, immobilized with your career, relationships, or bad habits, you awaken feeling exhausted, depressed and unmotivated, suffer from debilitating anxiety or panic attacks that leave you feeling drained or if you've experienced past traumas that plague today's quality of life, please call me. I am a results-oriented psychotherapist and therapy can alleviate distress and begin a journey of self growth to feel better and create a more fulfilling life. Your first step begins the process.

Change is possible! My strength lies in helping you to grow personally and find emotional relief by providing support, insight, and opportunities for change within the context of a collaborative and warm therapeutic environment. My approach is genuine, encouraging, energetic, and insightful. I specialize in helping individuals gain resolution and clarity about distressing situations and emotions, uncover and develop personal strengths, generate healing of past and present wounds, and develop more personal freedom overall.

As a dynamic therapist bringing over 25 years of experience, I can help you to appreciate who you are today, while helping you to make positive changes. No matter what your inner or outer circumstances, I can help you to be more at ease with them while you are at the same time doing what you can to improve yourself and your situation. We all face challenges in our lives, with our fears, emotions, moods, family, friends, jobs, addictions, aging, body and identity. We wish something to be different but are struggling with making or knowing what to change.

I use mindfulness, energy psychology, EFT, to relieve stress, heal trauma, anxiety, relationships. We work collaboratively, listening to conflicting parts and needs, discovering how to integrate these parts to fulfill your unique potential, talents, and power, learning to recognize and transform blocks to their fulfillment. With those who wish to explore spiritual aspects, we look at the meaning of experience, including mindfulness meditation, teachings from all religions, radical acceptance, emotional intelligence. We work on many levels, from practical decision making; connecting past and present issues; symptom abatement and coping skills, goal setting; to a spiritual search for the authentic self and its means of expression.

My approach is collaborative and compassionate in nature. I will work with you step by step to create and accomplish realistic and attainable goals that match the vision you have for your life. I want to understand where each of my clients are coming from so that I can work to provide well-informed, culturally sensitive care, unique to each client's individual needs. I am experienced in working with trauma, depression, anxiety, panic disorder, addiction, compulsive behaviors, and many other mental health issues.

At Recovery & Wellness Mental Health Counseling Services, PLLC, we specialize in substance use and impaired driver services. We serve individuals who are facing legal problems related to DWI, DWAI, DWAI drugs, possession charges, etc., by providing a substance use or impaired driver assessment and follow up. We also help partners and families of those experiencing alcohol or drug problems with codependency, marital and family problems. As Substance Abuse Professionals, we provide assessment, education, and treatment for DOT and other employees who have been referred to a SAP following a positive test for alcohol or other drugs.

I am a non-judgmental listener that can assist you in creating new alternatives for overcoming life's obstacles. I enjoy facilitating liberation, decreasing internalized oppression, disrupting trauma, transforming survivors into thrivers, sparking empowering epiphanies, overcoming challenges, increasing self-awareness, support healing and growth. In addition to being a clinical social worker, I am also a clinical sexologist that specializes in sexual literacy, treating sexual challenges, affirming pleasure and diversity.

I strive to provide a safe and confidential space in which my clients can explore habitual beliefs and behaviors that have been causing personal distress and/or relational problems. I attempt to help them find ways of re-directing their energy towards more effective and satisfying ways of being and interacting. The goal of therapy as I see it for people to develop an understanding of themselves, both alone and in the world, which will enable them to act reasonably and confidently in a way that honors their goals and personal values.

The Hudson Valley Center for Neurofeedback is eager to work with clients who are interested in medication free interventions which hold the promise of substantive change. Children and adults benefit from neurofeedback assessment and treatments. We are looking for clients who wish to be actively involved in their treatment and who have not found success with conventional psychotherapy or medication trials. Consultations are available by appointment at no charge.

I provide bilingual (Spanish and English) short term, goal oriented individual, couples and family therapy within a humanistic framework. My areas of specialization include working with children, adolescents, adults, couples and families dealing with behavior, low self-esteem, anxiety, relationship and multi-cultural issues and those experiencing crisis and traumatic stress. I work hand in hand with community agencies providing support services to victims of domestic violence. My passion for the profession and empathetic approach has inspired my clients' trust. I create a safe and supportive environment where, in collaboration with my clients, we explore solutions bringing about positive change.

Whether it’s your first time seeking therapy or have previous experience, I’m excited you’re here! Using evidenced based practices, I help clients develop self-awareness and self-compassion to better understand themselves and create positive change. My person-centered and strengths-based approach creates a safe and trusting environment where individuals of multicultural backgrounds feel comfortable to be vulnerable and empowered to make positive, long lasting change for their futures.

I am so glad you are here. One of the bravest things you can do is begin this healing journey. As a therapist, I help individuals through a variety of challenges they may be facing such as trauma, anxiety, depression, life changes, peer relationships, and stress. I am one of the managing partners at Compass Wellness, PLLC here in Poughkeepsie. My passion is healing wounds that trauma created. I specialize in helping you find the path to healing from past and present traumas, including birth trauma, and postpartum. I am a lactation consultant, birth doula, and NYS licensed social worker.

Therapy is a safe space to share your experience and gain insight and guidance, learning tangible skills to help improve your situation. Therapy is a chance to develop, heal and learn more about who you are and what makes you- YOU. Let me help you find your "why" and build the life you wish for yourself.

At times clients may know what they want and we can build a plan to achieve that. Other times they may not know what they want but may know what they don't want. That's important too. It gives us the groundwork to start to develop a person centered plan to achieve their goals. Mental Health IS Health!

Wouldn't it be nice to not only feel better but to actually feel good? This is possible!!! This is the way life should be. I have two goals in counseling: to help you get through whatever you are going through right now and to help you improve the quality of your life and to actually feel happier!

It may be difficult to find the right fit in speaking to someone about things you hold deep within yourself. There may be things that you need to share with someone because you want to work on changing them or mainly just because you don't want to keep them bottled up any longer. Whatever the reasons may be, looking for the right person to talk to can be a very difficult and time consuming task. I want to help you find that person where you can take the reins and design the therapeutic interaction. We will be partners in your road to recovery. Your life...your choices. Let me help you.

We believe you are worthy of all you desire. It takes courage to examine your life, struggles, and identity on a deeper level in order to live in a way that makes you feel whole. Thompson Counseling Services was founded to help people find providers and not get stuck on a waiting list! Our experienced team will help you uncover the strength and motivation you need to make real change. Choosing a therapist that makes you feel seen, accepted and safe is key to getting the most out of therapy. Get the direction and support you need to make the changes you want.