Interested in Psychotherapy?
It is a real challenge today to develop strong relationships and live a fulfilling life with the pressing demands of work, and the distractions of technology and global disruption. These ongoing social realities increase states of anxiety and subordinate our life drives, thoughts, and inner potentialities to productivity and competition. Everywhere we look, basic human sociability is in crisis; therefore, it should be no surprise that we are seeing widespread relational traumas, emotional distress, and attentive breakdown. Psychoanalytic therapy can disrupt these personal and collective processes of traumatic closure, and lead to new understandings and meaningful transformations.
I am a LGBTQ+/CNM affirming therapist and work with adolescents, adults, couples and families. In therapy with me you will feel heard, get to the root of your conflicts/distress, and see real change over time.
What is psychoanalytic therapy? Psychoanalytic therapy is the oldest psychotherapy (although it has evolved significantly) and it has a strong evidence-base demonstrating its long-lasting effects. I view psychoanalytic therapy as a long-term process of reorienting the coordinates of your life through a deep exploration of your past and present social and psychological conflicts. In this process, the unconscious dimensions of your life and relationships become illuminated, generating spaces for transformation. This enables you, as someone undertaking a creative work, to leave behind problematic unconscious life-strategies, create new meanings and new ways of managing emotions, inhabit your desires more fully, and rediscover the marvelous dimensions of life.
I am finishing up my post-doctoral licensing hours at Uptown Downtown Psychotherapy, and have availability for Telehealth or (preferably) in-person sessions in the Upper West Side.
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Who I am…
I am psychologist, psychoanalytic therapist, and writer, with a limited-permit in the state of New York, working under supervision to finish my post-doctoral hours. I am committed to providing quality therapy, organizing for a better future, and conducting research on the intersections of the psychological with the socio-economic and technological world. I have experience in a variety of settings, including college counseling clinics, community mental health clinics, outpatient work, and inpatient work in hospitals. From this diversity of training I gained experience working with a wide range of psychological issues from minor depression, anxiety, and relationship difficulties, to complex trauma, psychosis, and bipolar-disorder. I believe that creating a trusting, nonjudgmental bond in the therapeutic relationship, a shared understanding of the work to be done, and agreement around the methods for fulfilling this work are pivotal for the success of the therapy.
While my work is grounded in psychoanalytic theory and practice, I also pull from third-wave cognitive behavioral therapy to help fuel the depth-work that is being done. This means occasionally introducing mindfulness based strategies for managing overwhelming emotional experiences in times of distress. Additionally, I believe that no one can be viewed in isolation and I use my extensive engagement with socio-economic analyses, anthropology, religious studies, gender-sexuality studies, and world history, to inform my understanding of everyone I work with from a broad multidisciplinary lens.
Contact Me.
calebscott.psyd@gmail.com
(917) 512-3911