Therapy
My practice, JEM Therapy, is the home of my therapy services.
My approach is centered around you and thoughtfully tailored to your needs, personality, and goals. I strive to support your overall wellbeing, help you cultivate more fulfilling relationships, and foster greater connection and und erstanding within families.
I see therapy as a collaborative and reflective process grounded in curiosity, openness, and compassion. Together, we explore patterns, make sense of what is unfolding in your life and relationships, and expand your sense of choice, resilience, and authenticity in how you relate to yourself and others.
Our work may include understanding the different experiences, relationships, and internal dynamics that shape your responses and ways of coping, while strengthening your sense of self, agency, and emotional insight.
My clinical work draws from systemic, relational, psychodynamic, humanistic, trauma-informed, and cognitive-behavioral approaches, integrating these perspectives in a way that is responsive to each individual.
Core Themes
Survive, cope, build
Many life circumstances and inequities place us under stress. They challenge how we cope and how we live. Developing resilience and building supportive connections are essential to restoring balance. From there, we begin to build.
Differentiate
Being fully ourselves while staying connected to others is a central human challenge. As we learn to make room for the different parts of ourselves, we also become more able to make room for differences in others. Therapy helps us recognize what belongs to us and what does not, and supports building relationships that can hold complexity.
Integrate the past, imagine the future, live the present
Reflecting on the past—without pathologizing or reducing it—can help unburden what still weighs on us and shift how we relate to our experience. As the past becomes more integrated, energy frees up to live more fully in the present and move toward the future.
Care Options
At JEM Therapy, I provide out-of-network services in English and French. Sessions are offered in person in Manhattan and/or through a confidential, encrypted online platform.
Short- and long-term psychotherapy can support a wide range of experiences, including:
Addiction & recovery
Anxiety
Chronic illness
Couple dynamics and communication
Compulsive behaviors
Depression
Developmental and existential crises
Family conflict
Grief
Immigration and relocation
Trauma
Sexuality
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Therapy is both a relationship and an experience—one that unfolds at a pace that feels right for you. In that space, we pay close attention to what you’re feeling, not just in the moment, but beneath the surface, and to how you find yourself relating to others and to yourself. There’s room for all of it: the clarity, the confusion, the patterns that feel familiar, and the parts that are still taking shape.
From there, emotional and relational awareness can gently deepen. As things become more understandable and more spoken, there’s often a natural opening for new perspectives to emerge. Over time, even small shifts in how you see or respond can create a sense of greater alignment, more ease, and a way of moving through life and relationships that feels more grounded and connected to who you are.
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Couples and relationship therapy draws on ideas from Internal Family Systems (IFS) and the multi-level relational approach developed by Michele Scheinkman. These frameworks help reduce reactivity, deepen self-understanding, and strengthen communication so that partners can meet one another with more clarity and compassion.
Together, we can explore how each person experiences connection, commitment, boundaries, and personal autonomy. This may include conversations about expectations, emotional needs, patterns of protection, and what helps each partner feel safe and open.
For people in non-monogamous relationships or more complex relational constellations, our work can include clarifying roles, agreements, communication pathways, and shared values. The goal is to create relationships—of any structure—that feel intentional, supportive, and aligned for everyone involved.
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Family relationships shape us in deep and lasting ways, influencing how we see ourselves and how we connect with others. Because these relationships are so close and familiar, they can also hold patterns of tension, misunderstanding, or distance that are hard to shift on our own.
Family therapy offers a supportive space to come together and make sense of what’s happening between you. It creates room to slow things down, listen differently, and understand both present conflicts and longer-standing relational patterns.
Over time, this shared work can open space for greater clarity, repair, and a more compassionate way of relating—helping families move toward connection that feels more grounded and workable.
Supervision & Training
I offer individual and group clinical supervision as a space to reflect on your therapeutic work, learn new approaches, and deepen your clinical practice.
Special arrangements are available for institutions and international teams.
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