Therapy for Life Transitions in Brooklyn

Suddenly, it’s happening. Maybe you’re:

✧ Feeling unmoored and unsure, even if the change was chosen or something you’ve been planning for

✧ Facing pressure to “be excited” or “figure it out,” while feeling overwhelmed inside

✧ Grieving what’s ending while holding a lot of mixed feelings about what’s next

✧ Finding that your whole identity is in flux, and wondering who you’ll be on the other side of this change

✧ Feeling destabilized or disoriented, even if nothing is “wrong” on the outside

You’re in the middle of a reorganization. Your system is adapting to change, and that’s not easy.

Transitions ask a lot of us, even when they open new possibilities.

✧ Able to tolerate uncertainty and not knowing, even if you’re used to being in control

✧ Grounded in your body, even when everything around you is changing

✧ Centered enough to make choices that reflect who you are, not what others expect of you

✧ Able to respond, rather than react, to new situations and challenges

✧ Connected to yourself and others as you move through the unknown

It’s not that you need to “fix” anything. This is about supporting your system as it adjusts to what’s next. Therapy is a collaborative process, and we’ll move at a pace that feels supportive of your experience as you navigate major life changes. We’ll explore what’s emerging for you in this new chapter and work with how your system responds to uncertainty. Reach out for a free consultation for therapy for life transitions, either in-person in Brooklyn or online throughout New York. You can also keep reading to learn more about how I work with life transitions in therapy, or learn more about the primary modalities I use, Somatic Therapy and Internal Family Systems. 

Therapy for Life Transitions—More Than Just Talking

Major life transitions almost always bring both loss and possibility. They bring excitement and fear and the incredibly challenging task of having to tolerate so much uncertainty. Existing in limbo, newness, and not-knowing is hard. I would be surprised if you weren’t feeling all kinds of ways. 

Uncertainty can be deeply unsettling, especially when you care about “getting it right” and you’re used to holding it all together and being in control. In therapy, we’ll build your capacity to exist in uncertainty rather than rushing to resolve it. We’ll notice any impulses to reach for control and support you in building trust in yourself when certainty isn’t available. We’ll work on helping you remain connected with yourself so you can move through this big change with steadiness, even without knowing exactly what’s next.

Sometimes it can be really helpful to talk through what’s happening, especially in the middle of a major change. We’ll make space for verbal processing—finding your story, working through how you’re understanding this transition, identifying the different emotional experiences at play, and gaining insight into how this change may be shifting your sense of identity, including who you want to be on the other side. 

Our work will attend not only to your thoughts and story, but also to how this transition is living in your body and nervous system. Especially if you’re someone who holds it all together, is always on the go, or isn’t used to slowing down, we’ll notice where you may be bracing, pushing through, or trying to regain control. We’ll stay with emotions and sensations to build capacity to experience them while remaining anchored in safety, helping your system slow down, feel, and discharge what’s there. We’ll explore what kinds of support might allow your system to settle and reorganize, helping you stay grounded in yourself amidst change. 

What to Expect

Using an integrated, embodied approach, we’ll listen for the different parts of you that may be activated during this transition: the part that wants certainty, the part that’s grieving what’s ending, the part that’s scanning for what comes next. Together, we’ll build a trusting relationship with these parts, learning what their roles have been and helping them not have to work so hard as you navigate this in-between space. We may uncover old parts of you that are getting activated in this transition, sometimes without you fully realizing it. We’ll work with what might be getting raised from your past and is impacting the present, to heal what’s hurting at the core.

You’re not doing it wrong. Your system is adapting to change.

Therapy can become a place where you don’t have to have it all figured out. Where you can slow down, stay present with what’s here, and begin to sense what wants to emerge on the other side of this transition.