Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis in NYC

Psychotherapy is one of the best investments you can make in yourself.

Psychotherapy is a process that allows people to tap into their innate potential for growth by putting words to their internal thoughts and feelings. You might be coming to therapy feeling stuck or stagnated. My role is to facilitate a supportive environment where clarity and self knowledge can unfold. Exploring your experience in a dialogue with someone who is trained to listen without preconceived notions and who helps by asking meaningful questions can generate new outcomes and insights. Following your lead, I'll work collaboratively with you to better understand and address the specific difficulties you face.

As a seasoned, relational psychotherapist, I am dedicated to helping individuals unlock their innate potential for personal growth and navigate through life's challenges. Drawing upon my training in psychodynamic psychotherapy and relational psychoanalysis, I specialize in helping individuals articulate complex feelings and develop a deeper self-awareness. I work with adults and adolescents in individual and group therapy and have extensive experience providing therapy to individuals experiencing challenges related to anxiety and self esteem issues, identity exploration, high achievement & loss of meaning, depression, trauma, substance use, stress, complex relationships, and compulsive behavior.

Using an individualized and dynamic approach that's tailored to you, we’ll work collaboratively and relationally, exploring your present and pressing concerns. As unresolved issues or overlooked emotional needs may surface in the therapeutic process, following your lead I'll attend alongside you to whatever arises with warmth, compassion, and curiosity. My focus is to listen deeply with an open mind, creating a nonjudgemental space in which you may feel and say anything and where your own self-knowledge grows. As we examine unprocessed aspects of your experience, new outcomes and insights will emerge. This process can be challenging, but the rewards are immense.

As your therapist, my role is to be attuned to you as we work together in pursuit of your learning about yourself more deeply. I see therapy as a relationship of trust and respect that helps you make transformative, lasting change on your terms. As we navigate this process together, you will be investing in and advancing your innate potential for growth, allowing you to access a freer, more realized version of yourself over time. My approach, informed by psychodynamic and psychoanalytic thinking, is warm and interactive. I enjoy working with people from all walks of life who have decided to make New York City their home (such as professionals, creatives, entrepreneurs, expats, students and more).

Julia L. Pressman, LCSW
NYC Psychotherapist

Julia L. Pressman, LCSW is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with diverse clinical experience who can help adolescents and adults suffering through anxiety, depression, low-self esteem and creative blocks.

Services & Areas of Expertise

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