A life is full of conversations: Long, short, boring, exciting, irritating, inspiring, welcome … unwelcome.
Then there are the conversations we carry on in our heads.
Therapy is a healing conversation.
And it’s not all talk.
Living our lives, passing from one experience to the next, we often hide our true feelings about things. Sometimes, even from ourselves. And there’s often a cost: emotional discomfort or distress we don’t quite understand, and can’t quite explain.
So a healing conversation is about touching into the heart of the matter: The feelings we carry, often half-hidden from ourselves, beneath the day-to-day of emotional struggle.
These true feelings are our emotional compass.
Connecting to this emotional compass is a fresh experience of ourselves in the midst of life. It helps us sense into and orient to our true direction. It opens up energies and courage – essentially, the courage to be ourselves … And to change.
That’s what a healing conversation is about.
I imagine that what brought you to this page is emotional pain, emotional struggle … and the hope for change. Whether your struggle is with the murk of depression, the churn of anxiety, tangled relationships, gender questions, or the twists and turns of your life-path, I hope you will find these pages helpful. Browse around! They give a sense of how I work, think – and even, to a degree, how I sound.
Because choosing a therapist is such a complex and personal process, I offer a free full-length initial consultation, by phone or HIPAA-compliant video platform. If you feel I’m not the right person for you, I am happy to be a resource, and help by seeking a good referral.
Andrea Levin, LCSW-R
330 West 58th Street
Suite 611
New York, N.Y., 10019
(Limited weekend hours available, Upper West Side location)
SPECIALTIES
Anxiety
Depression
Couples Therapy
Chronic Illness
Life Path Issues
Writers, Artists, & Performing Artists
Mindfulness
LGBTQi
Shame
Russian-Speaking
We work without fast-forwarding past the hard parts – but without losing precious time.
A healing conversation is:
- Confidential
- Respectful of you, the client – your boundaries, sensitivities, and values
- Central to an alliance that allows you to bring up whatever comes up – including annoyance with your therapist! Knowing your feelings and opinions will be respected
- Helps you to become curious about yourself
- Challenges you in a good way
- Helps you see new aspects of yourself and your situation
- Provides response and genuine feedback, not silenceHelps you hone skills in self-observation that will serve for a lifetime