Relationship ~ Centered
Psychotherapy
NYC + NC
Tess Riabokin, LCSW
I am a psychodynamically trained therapist and clinical social-worker. I specialize in working with adults from diverse backgrounds who are working on their relationships with themselves, family or romantic partner(s). My approach incorporates experiential and relational therapies that are attachment-based and trauma-informed.
This unique approach allows me to play an active role helping the client to feel their emotions and identify barriers to healing and growth. This collaborative process can yield a worthwhile and hopeful experience.
Challenges in relationship can bring about a variety of experiences from joy and pleasure to anxiety and fear and confinement. In order to move through these feelings we may have to examine our coping strategies and ways we respond so that we can have the relationships we want and need.
I will support you in deepening your understanding of your challenges and together we can work to get to the heart of the issue(s).
I also have a focus in working with adult children of parents with NPD (narcissistic personality disorder) and BPD (Borderline personality disorder) traits. Often the tools we developed to survive this type of childhood no longer serve us as adults and need updating.
Together we can examine how these patterns from your childhood or past are still in operation today and are influencing the way you relate to yourself and others.
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Therapy is not a one size fits all experience. Together we can work to create a personalized approach in service of you and your goals. I will help you deepen your understanding of the challenges you experience in your life and develop more effective ways to respond to them.
During this process we will examine how you engage with your feelings so that you can stop thinking about them and actually change the way you interact with these parts of yourself.
I use a several effective and dynamic forms of empirically-supported psychotherapy. Through a collaborative process, you will learn tools and strategies to help you expand your capacity for well being.
If you’re ready to get started reach out to me for a free consultation.
What to expect…
Relationships
Do you find yourself returning to familiar but detrimental ways of dealing with stress & anxiety?
Are you in a good relationship that’s triggering a lot of discomfort?
Do you struggle to show up for your partner in ways that you like?
Are you needing support in a relationship with someone with BPD or NPD traits?
Listen to the parts of you that call for your attention.
Anxiety + Depression
Do you experience social anxiety?
Do you long for meaningful connection, feeling confident, and being your authentic self?
Do you feel big emotions get in the way of what you’re trying to do?
Are you coping in ways that don’t align with your values?
Do you worry about what others may be saying about you?
Self Esteem
Do you long to feel more confident?
Do you often find yourself in the caretaker role?
Do you struggle to say no?
Do you struggle with feelings of guilt?
Does your anxiety lead you to avoid certain situations, conversations or people?
