I approach our work through deep listening and attention to your singular experience. You may be coming to seek relief from troubling thoughts, difficulties in relating to others, or physical symptoms of anxiety or depression. I facilitate an unfolding process where you can give voice to your conflicts, relationships, desires, and memories, sometimes for the first time. Together, we can find insight where you feel stuck and find relief where you feel pain.
I attend closely to the social and political forces in our lives — the ways in which race, class, gender, sexuality, and body/mind all interact. Working through an anti-oppressive lens, I hope to shed new light on parts of your experience that feel intolerable or unknowable.
What We Do
I work with adults and adolescents in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, on a weekly or multiple-times-per-week basis. Some people come in feeling anxious, stretched too thin, or out of control; others come feeling depressed, disinterested, or hopeless. Whether you feel overstimulated or isolated, angry or fearful, I welcome your full experience into the room. Many of those I work with are queer, trans, and/or seeking support around marginalized sexualities and relationship structures. My clinical experience includes work with artists, activists, academics, sex workers, and other care professionals; and with people navigating psychosomatic distress, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, sexual trauma, and relationship difficulties.
Therapy for Children
I work with children in play therapy, where I incorporate activities like drawing, pretend play, and collaborative games. Often children have a presenting behavioral issue — such as acting out, withdrawing, or signaling distress to adults and caregivers — and I provide a safe and exploratory environment in which children can process their internal world and the world they inhabit.
About Me
I graduated with honors from the Silberman School of Social Work, where my graduate training included inpatient psychiatric social work, play therapy with children, and psychotherapy with adults and families. I previously received degrees in the arts from Yale University (M.M.) and Columbia University (B.A.). My professional affiliations include Manhattan Alternative and Das Unbehagen: A Free Association for Psychoanalysis. I am currently pursuing independent formation as a psychoanalyst. My writing is forthcoming in the journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality.
I offer both in-person sessions in Lower Manhattan and virtual sessions via Zoom. My office is ADA accessible and there is a gender-neutral bathroom on site. I am out-of-network with insurance; my standard fee is $160, and I currently have sliding scale availability starting at $50 for new adult patients. I am part of Dulcinea Pitagora’s team of psychotherapists.
You may reach me at 646-535-6769 or jasminegelber.therapy@gmail.com.