Female Therapists in Red Hook, NY

Accepting new patients. Evening and daytime openings. You want to understand things, and you want to feel better. Talking to friends and family helps but speaking with a professional is different. You need someone who can truly listen, prioritize your goals and values and offer useful feedback, supported by knowledge, training and experience . Empowering you to move in the direction you desire. If you want to deepen your understanding of yourself and your patterns, gain insight into dynamics that were hidden below the surface of your relationships and make changes that will move you closer to a satisfying life, let's begin today.

Accepting new clients as of 7/15, night and weekend telehealth appts available. Hi! I'm Jen King and I am Licensed Clinical Social Worker at Empowered and Resilient Minds. I enjoy getting to know and working with diverse clients from many different walks of life.

You know yourself best, and although I have worked with parents and caregivers, couples, teens, and adults for more than 25 years, my experience has only deepened my commitment to deeply collaborative work with clients. If you are looking for partnership and support in finding your way through mental health challenges, life challenges, or transitions, I look forward to connecting to discuss how I might be helpful to you.

We all have the same basic needs; to love, to be loved, and to feel that we have worth. When these needs go unfulfilled, we get anxious and depressed and our relationships suffer. I believe the purpose of therapy is to reduce those symptoms by addressing their root causes. Your expectations of love and yourself were formed by your prior relationships. Let's make sure that those expectations are healthy and realistic. Let's figure out how your past has influenced your present, for good and for bad, and find the tools to be your best and strongest self in the future.

When emotions stir within, causing anxiety, depression, or distress in relationships, life can feel overwhelming. I view these shifts as gifts, like an indicator light your higher Self is yearning for a personal growth spurt. These feelings can be an opportunity to free yourself from the experiences that hold you back from living your best life. My ideal client is ready to explore their internal world to make the changes needed to create a positive transformation. I am a body-based trauma-informed therapist with a master’s degree in dance/movement therapy. I use the creative process and visualization as a tool for exploration.

Trauma isn’t what happens to us. It’s what happens inside of us. If I have learned anything from my own pain, my clients' pain, and the failures of our current system of mental health treatment, it’s that we are constantly misunderstanding the role of traumatic experience. Together we will find a therapeutic approach that works for you and your unique experience. In order to create lasting change in our lives, we need more from therapy than a verbal exchange. Over the last ten years, I have studied and employed a variety of experiential methods to address the root causes of trauma and help individuals invite lasting personal growth.

Seeking help is an act of bravery, so kudos to you for coming to this site looking for it. It signifies strength and resilience. People say “life is hard” all the time, and they’re not wrong. The challenges in today’s post Covid and politically tumultuous world are, in some ways, more difficult than they’ve been in a long time. For the individual who has trauma activations, anxiety, grief, or lives an alternative lifestyle, even acts of daily living can be overwhelming. Obviously, we can only do so much to change adverse circumstances beyond our control; the events of a tumultuous past, and/or a challenging present. However...

My passion is helping children, adolescents, and young adults lead happier, more enjoyable lives, and enabling their families to experience harmony and joy in their homes. As a Clinical Social Worker and Registered Play Therapist, I specialize in working with children, adolescents, and young adults who are experiencing difficulties managing their emotions and navigating relationships and life's challenges. I also provide support for parents and caregivers during their parenting journey.

In therapy it is essential to develop a trusting relationship that will allow you to feel confident and supported to disclose life's difficulties and accept help with greater insight of your current circumstances. In a warm and supportive environment, offering empathy, understanding and encouragement we will work together to identify specific concerns, feelings, thoughts and beliefs that interfere with your daily living. By building on your strengths, and practicing new ways of thinking, you will change those negative thought patterns, feeling more at peace with yourself and improving your emotional well-being.

Counseling that is rooted in Attachment theory will create lasting improvements in all of your relationships. No more lists of coping skills that do not help when it gets hard. No more forever counseling; we will work hard to achieve results that you can hold on to. In session we will find some old hurts that never healed, we will sequence your experiences to find out what is going on, we will understand your current approaches and responds to conflict, we will learn about you. Together we will create doable plans that will be right for you, together we will work towards you feeling more connected.

Entering into therapy, whether it be for yourself or your child, is a process in uncovering the self and true identity. Grief, loss, trauma, various life transitions and challenges can shake our sense of self. The creative process is intrinsically healing and offers a safe space to sort through various emotions, and reorganize your brain & thoughts. Children and teens need creative space and play outside of their structured days. Within my art studio/office, I offer ceramics, painting, collage, drawing, fiber arts, sculpture and art with recyclables.

With over 30 years of experience with children and their families I utilize many of the leading approaches including CBT and solution focused and strength based to help with a "good fit" or alliance being the primary objective. When the child or teen is comfortable in opening up healing and positive change is possible. Parents have many tools some of which they are not using to fullest and these can be accessed with help.

Life feeling hard is normal, but there are times when it feels like too much. Grieving, worrying, connecting, differentiating, feeling stuck, relationship challenges, self doubt, fear, entrenched patterns that we can’t seem to change. It can feel impossible to figure out on your own where things are stuck and what might help.

You are taking a courageous step in seeking a therapist and I support you in this courage. Perhaps you are at a crossroads in your life and want to explore what has brought you here and where this stage may lead. I am ready to listen and support you. I have practiced as a person-centered, relational psychotherapist since 1975. I value our time together as an opportunity to begin to know you and to understand what you may need from our conversations. If you feel my background might match what you need, I look forward to hearing from you.

I treat a vast variety of people with a wide array of issues. I stay fairly current in session, although the importance of our past cannot be underestimated. We coped and survived in a certain way as children. This is not to say these strategies are bad, they just are not useful anymore and new ones are to be explored to enhance the rest of your life. Some areas are relationships, dating, breakups, eating disorders, anxiety, depression, workaholic challenges. creativity, gay issues, and success.

During different life stages and times of stress, you may face a range of difficulties including anxiety, depression, family troubles or relationship difficulties. I offer a supportive, respectful and collaborative environment in which clients can feel safe and understood, gain increased insight and awareness, and develop healthier ways of coping and connecting with others. While each client's goals are unique, symptom relief is paramount in my work. I am committed to assisting my clients in making changes that lead to happier, more satisfying lives.

My approach is rooted in warmth, respect, and a deep regard for the strengths of the individual. I focus on helping people make the changes they want to see in their lives, starting from the inside and working outward into relationships, work, and life as a whole. I work from a trauma-informed consciousness, with an interest in neuroscience, supported by awareness of the effects of toxic stress on the body, mind, and emotions. In exploring the barriers to balance in your life, we can work together to build a holistic approach to rebalancing that is practical and effective.

As a solution-focused, mindfulness based cognitive/behavioral psychologist, I work by collaborating with you to identify problem areas and devise manageable strategies in the service of gradual, stepwise change. Our work looks at perceptions, thoughts, feelings and behavior and helps you alter and manage these. The fact that you are indeed able to make change becomes surprisingly clear to you, and it is done at a pace that feels workable.

I am a warm, supportive therapist providing person-centered, goal-focused sessions. Together we create a safe, collaborative space to explore authentic feelings, emphasize strengths, and identify effective strategies to enhance your well-being. There's no one size fits all manual for how to navigate life. We build a toolbox to equip you for yours whether there be a recent event, life transition or persistent stressor.