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 individual treatment and relationship therapy, 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.
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. Prior to my clinical training, I worked with trans and queer people as a community support group facilitator, and as a peer counselor with Identity House, NYC’s oldest all-volunteer organization for the LGBTQ+ community. I previously received degrees in the arts from Yale University (M.M.) and Columbia University (B.A.). My professional affiliations include Manhattan Alternative, Division 39 of the American Psychological Association, and the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work (AAPCSW).
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 and offer a wide sliding scale. I am part of Dulcinea Pitagora’s team of psychotherapists.
You may reach me at 646-535-6769 or jasminegelber.therapy@gmail.com.