Life Coaching Therapists in Long Island City, NY

Hi, I'm Chantal Amoussou, a bilingual (English & French) Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the state of New York. My current practice focuses on supporting adults and teens navigating grief and loss, depression, anxiety, trauma, Bipolar, anticipatory loss, substance abuse, life transitions, and relationships. Using various evidence-based techniques, I'll help you reconnect to existing strengths and cultivate additional resources that support progress toward the changes you wish to make.

You are choosing to work on yourself, good! For over 20 years I have had the privilege of working interactively to assist and support in developing emotional strength, clarity, and confidence and to resolve issues that stand in the way of a creative, energetic, and positive life. Whether stuck, fearful, overwhelmed, dissatisfied, lonely, disappointed, depressed, anxious, or traumatized- we can work together to release negative energy, create understanding and peace. As in working a 12 step program, the work of reconnecting to self leads to deeper and stronger connections with others, as fears and worry are met with and dissipated.

Are you having trouble in certain areas in your life? Career, relationships, purpose, family? Are you a young adult and feel completely lost in your life. I can help as a coach, therapist, or objective person who is not connected to any part of your world. Life can be better than you think, i can direct you to feel better about your existence, how you relate to others, and your own personal success. I will work with teens and adolescents too parents. I am empathetic, easy to talk to, and relatable.

My ideal client represents someone willing to accept their situation and find the solution to their addictive behaviors and mental health problems. This includes utilizing our comprehensive treatment programs and resources to set recovery goals, find support, and learn the necessary skills to successfully recover and maintain sobriety.

Have you ever dreamed of reaching unprecedented heights in your career and personal life? What if you could turn self-criticism into constructive self-expression, gain incredible confidence in your decisions, and live guided by your heart? We are here to help you unlock your true potential. Forget chasing an unattainable ideal—the goal is to become the best "YOU" you can imagine!

I work with individuals in a supportive and creative environment to open dialogue and explore life's challenges. The opportunity to engage in verbal or non-verbal expression can support to reframe the past, their thoughts, emotions, life patterns, and to discover a deeper awareness of themselves.

Great to meet you! I am a licensed mental health counselor based in New York specializing in individual psychotherapy. I hold a master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling from Nyack College. Throughout my career I’ve worked with children and families in a variety of clinical and therapeutic settings. For over 10 years I’ve helped clients grow from striving to thriving using evidence-based tools and interventions.

Struggling with trauma, grief, discrimination, immigration and cultural adjustment issues that keeping you up at night? Your challenges are real and valid, and can be affecting you, your relationships with family, friends, and even at work. If you find yourself spiralling down into isolation, feeling misunderstood, doubting your self worth and wandering, “What’s wrong with me?”, it’s time to reach out for help! There’s a way to ease your pain, achieve a sense of belonging, build meaningful connections and navigate documentation nightmare.

I am from New York City. I have a bachelors in psychology from Eugene Lang at The New School University and a PsyD in clinical psychology from Teacher's College at Columbia University. I have over four years of experience working as a therapist, advisor, life coach, and clinical psychologist at Weil Cornell Medicine New York Presbyterian. I provide therapy for only females from all races, ethnicities, and cultures with a curated therapeutic style that would best fit your individual needs ranging from: Psychoanalysis, Humanistic, Holistic, Spiritual, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).

Is Short Term Solution Based Therapy right for you? Feeling stressed? Anxious? Overwhelmed? Is life getting you down? Whatever it is that’s stopping you from feeling your best, therapy can help. Living with stress can cause real problems that affect our physical and mental health. It can trigger anxiety, depression, social problems, low self-esteem, and self doubt. I have over 10 years of experience helping my clients reduce stress, manage anxiety, and sadness, and begin to feel better about themselves. There's no point in suffering on you own, when there's better path forward to health and wellness.

Are you struggling in your relationship or having issues related to sex and intimacy? Do you find yourself fighting more and having a hard time resolving your differences? Are you feeling more distance and worried that you are growing apart? Has there been a recent betrayal that has you in crisis? Are you in an infidelity situation that has you feeling confused, distracted or anxious? Do you or your partner struggle with unhealthy behaviors that can feel addictive (alcohol, drugs, sex, food, gambling). Do you crave more intimacy, more fun, more sexuality, more emotional connection?

Welcome to view my profile. I believe that our moments of great struggle can also hold the most powerful potential for growth. The pain we face is an invitation for ourselves to deepen and expand. My lifelong curiosity with resilience and transformation has led me down a path where I support my clients in their journey. My consistent learning and self-reflection have allowed me to be clients' anchor and their holding environment. Together we work to bring changes and heal what has been getting in the way of the life you would like lead.

At PURE Recovery, we believe in multiple paths to recovery, which is why we accept guests recovering from a full range of addictive and co-occurring disorders such as substance use, alcohol dependence, sex addiction, disordered eating and trauma. We also honor medication assisted recovery, as we strongly believe that medication prescribed by a treating professional is a legitimate recovery path. We welcome guests of all stages of recovery to join us on the road to health and wellness.

Life is a continuous process. Maybe it is a process of relationship struggle or life transition. We may feel anxious and stuck in repetitive patterns and find it difficult to pinpoint the reason. Partnering with me, we will pay close attention to your physical sensations, embodied emotions, and internal world. My immigrant background helps me attune with BIPOC communities, especially with Asian-Americans and international students. We can use a combination of art and talk to work through anxiety, trauma, cross-cultural adjustment, low self-esteem, being a people-pleaser, or perfectionist tendency.

You want and need to feel better. I help you discover how your thoughts and actions take you away from yourself. I practice from an open, honest, and non-judgmental point of view. As a therapist, I consider us as whole and valuable right now, but with barriers to experiencing ourselves or life in this way. When human beings are supported like this, soon things can feel better and change is possible. Patients come to see me for guidance with relationships to others and themselves, important choices, life transitions, everyday stress and living fully.

Are you feeling hopeless or stuck in life or your relationships? Do you feel like you've been doing the same thing over and over and getting no results? Do you want to feel connected to your partner? I believe those who seek out therapy have a willingness to challenge themselves and desire to achieve self-growth. Sometimes we do not know how to adjust to a new life transition or break the pattern of a continuous cycle. At LIC Marriage and Family Therapy we establish effective communication and positive self-esteem to help empower our clients to understand themselves and their partner by acceptance and validation.

I help patients deal with blocks that prevent them having the best possible life and healthy, loving relationships. I use an empathetic, psychodynamic approach but also employ cognitive techniques - i.e. exercises during the session and homework. I want to help people notice and change their self-destructive patterns. I also help artists uncover the roots of their struggles with motivation and self-doubt.

It is my privilege to assist you in developing insight and helping you to explore the themes created through your experiences of yourself and the people in your life. Providing you assistance to develop autonomy to hone assertiveness and awareness. I am culturally competent in immigration, assimilation, and race relations. The nuances with existing in multiple cultures simultaneously.

In life we are never fully prepared for the challenges that we face as an adult, yet we do our best to push through these hurdles, collecting life lessons along the way. An unexpected turn of events can either make you or break you, but at the end we rise to the occasion; we seek resources for support that aid us in becoming stronger. You have taken the first step, which is the biggest step, in having the courage to seek therapy, that shows your resiliency.