Female Therapists in Syracuse, NY

Life can be challenging and there are times when we need assistance to navigate the difficulties we are facing. Asking for help and facing those challenges is the first step to finding peace in your life. I am fully invested in helping you feel comfortable and supported during the process of healing and growth.

Being a First Generation of Immigrant parents, I remember struggling to understand the complexity of my identities and the intersectionalities. I remember wishing and wanting someone who could understand what it was like navigating multiple identities, being multiracial and multicultural. My practice is meant to offer support and space to help those explore their identities and learn to embrace and love all the parts of themselves. This is integrative with exploring internal identities and exploring ways of practicing self-love in a collaborative and culturally responsive space.

As a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with over 20 years of experience, I firmly believe that mental health is just as important as physical health. Throughout my career, I've dedicated myself to supporting individuals dealing with depression, anxiety, PTSD, trauma, and other mental health conditions. My passion for mental health stem from personal experiences within my own family. Adolescence can be especially challenging I am committed to providing support during these critical years. Let's work together to prioritize your mental health and build a path towards a more fulfilling and balanced life.

As a 40-something with 15+ years of clinical experience in Marriage and Family Therapy, I have found that life is a journey of learning filled with twists and turns, many of which are beyond our power and control. It seems that when we are faced with the choices that naturally proceed from this journey, often we choose something not because it aligns with our highest value, but because it protects our unspoken vulnerabilities. If our greatest loyalty lies with our greatest fear or pain, then that fear or pain holds the potential to be either the cage that imprisons us or the opportunity that grows us to a new level of development.

Accepting Clients! My goal is to support you by providing a safe, accepting environment for self-exploration. Through a relational and trauma-informed approach, I am committed to affirming the experiences and journeys of everyone I work with by providing the spaces necessary to work towards positive change. I specialize in work focused on gender identity, sexual orientation, and identity intersections. My practice is driven by the belief that no one should ever feel “less than" because of their gender identity/expression, sexuality, or any other attribute of their personhood.

I believe that each person holds within themselves everything they need to heal and grow in the ways they would like. I see the therapist's role as being one in which provides an environment of safety and care where the client can explore themselves authentically. It is through this authentic exploration, that the therapist can help the client discover how patterns and ways of being are keeping the client stuck and resulting in suffering. By bringing into awareness these aspects, the client and therapist can then work collaboratively to release the pain and explore new ways of being.

Your heart starts racing, hands get sweaty, vision gets blurry, and there’s an elephant sitting on your chest. Maybe this started out of nowhere. Maybe you know what started this panic and this sense of doom. Either way, I’m here to sit beside you while you figure all this out. It’s no picnic to be stuck between a rock and a hard place, making difficult choices that feel impossible. Becoming an adult can be very exciting and very scary at the same time. Even when you think you’ve reached the summit of adulthood, you realize that life still has wild surprises and hard losses. The “adulting” never stops!

Is it hard for you to believe that you can be happy? I define happiness as overall life contentment. I believe that your happiness is attainable and this is why I am a life coach. The ability to be happy is a skill. Good coaches have studied the game and learned skills and strategies that can be shared to help the team win and individual players self-actualize. In other words, there is help. There are skills and strategies that can be learned and used to find, protect, and experience your own happiness.

Have you noticed that you haven’t been feeling like yourself lately? Is it harder to get through your day-to-day tasks because you can’t muster the energy for them? Do your relationships feel as though they have suffered? I specialize in treating depression, relationship issues, and anxiety through a variety of modalities including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT).

Having happiness and peace in your life again can be possible. Exploring new options for self care and wellness can help you attain your goal of feeling better. By discovering the possibilities for change, therapy will help you be who you want to be and gain control back in your life. My approach to therapy is patient and caring. I will listen to your needs and work collaboratively to help you build new coping skills and strengthen those you already posess.

Overwhelmed? Start rebuilding today from the comfort of your home, office or through Telehealth. Our team is comprised of clinicians who are fully licensed and either clinical or masters level social workers or mental health counselors. With over 40 clinicians in the group, we are able to help with a variety of different topics to help clients achieve their goals.

My name is Yuriana Uceta (call me Yuri). I speak both English and Spanish. I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 10 years of experience. I am a Doctoral candidate for a PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision. My private practice “YU Matter Psychotherapy, LLC” is located in Baldwinsville, offering Telehealth services. I treat depression, mood, anxiety and attachment disorders. Trauma, social anxiety/phobias, personality disorders, and addictions are key areas of competence; multicultural and couples counseling are special strengths. I can hold for you and/or your partner, a safe, supportive and uplifting, healing space.

Often there are times when nothing really seems wrong in our lives, yet there is this sadness or anger, and we don't know where it comes from. Therapy can be beneficial in working on our known difficulties and the areas of ourselves that we need to become more familiar with. As a therapist, I aim to guide you toward healing, develop new skills and insights, and work collaboratively to produce the changes you want to see.

We are currently accepting new patients and have immediate openings for telehealth. Our practice is comprised of ethically sound professionals ready to assist you on your journey toward emotional wellness. We understand that it can be an overwhelming and difficult process to begin mental health services. We provide a safe environment to foster healing and growth in all of the individuals that we work with. Our clinicians are currently able to provide telehealth services for New York and Tennessee. We have experience with trauma, anxiety, depression, and addiction. We are here to support those adjusting to various transitions.

As a licensed clinical therapist with experience working with individuals, families and children, I am very aware of the many challenges we face at different stages throughout our lives. Are you currently feeling stuck, isolated and overwhelmed about how to begin facing and overcoming these challenges? You no longer have to feel alone in this process. In therapy, I will work to facilitate personal growth by creating a safe space and providing empathy, support, and feedback to empower you to feel confident in reaching and achieving your goals.

I believe therapy is a great way to create a deeper connection with yourself and others in order to improve your quality of life. Therapy is a wonderful way to create a new sense of balance in your life that can sometimes get lost in focus throughout the hardships we face. Together we can work to get you back on your feet and learn new techniques and tools to help you during those difficult and confusing times. My passion is to help people on their journey to finding happiness. I understand that it can be hard to reach out and ask for help but I strive to create a safe and comfortable environment, without judgement.

A happy and secure marriage is wonderful, and can be tough to maintain. Keeping your relationship solid during a really difficult season in life is even harder. So many couples struggle to stay connected when they're going through something difficult: trying to have a baby, adjusting to parenthood, job changes, financial stressors, grief, or health issues. Other couples find themselves simply drifting apart: they're not sure when things changed, but one day they looked up and realized their communication sucks and they barely spend time together. And when this happens, so many couples don't know what to do or how to reconnect.

Do you feel like you are too much, and also not enough? You may have learned to compensate for your challenges by adopting various strategies like masking and people pleasing. You may think other people have similar struggles, but are just better at handling them. When you live that way for a long time it is difficult to know yourself, your needs, your strengths, and even your problems. My affirming approach supports clients learning to see and accept themselves for who they are unconditionally. I trust your internal wisdom and believe you deserve to live fully without exhaustion, shame, guilt, and resentment.

The decision to begin therapy can be a difficult one, but with the right therapist and hard work the benefits can be endless. Therapy can help you identify patterns in your life that may be causing you struggle. It can help you identify the link between your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and implement changes you want to make in life. The goal is always to learn new ways to think and act, as well as to integrate new healthy coping skills into your life.