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Healing and Growth

Flatiron Mental Health Counseling is a private psychotherapy group located in Manhattan, New York, offering mental health counseling for young adults, and adults. The right therapy can make an enormous difference in your life and, among other things, provide you with clarity and relief.

Our core commitment is to healing and growth, and to honor and respect the uniqueness of each individual. We pay particular attention to clients’ desires to find answers within themselves, while also offering our professional expertise and direction in a collaborative effort toward healing.

Our counselors utilize many different therapeutic approaches, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Psychodynamic and Humanistic Psychotherapy, Mindfulness, Motivational Interviewing, and Gestalt techniques, to tailor therapy to each individual’s needs.

Some Reasons People Seek Our Services:

  • You feel overwhelmed with depression or anxiety and want relief.

  • You feel like you are stuck in a rut and don’t see a way out.

  • You feel like you might have a problem with drugs or alcohol but haven’t been able to stop.

  • You feel like you or your life is out of control.

  • You have a problem that is interfering with your relationships, employment or school or causing you distress.

  • You feel you lack enough support in your life or are tired of burdening your friends with your problems.

  • You are unhappy in your relationships or are having trouble setting boundaries with others.

  • You are having trouble coping with a recent or past loss and need support and tools to move forward.

  • You are having problems accepting your sexual identity.

  • You want to foster personal growth, have an objective and non-partial sounding board, or explore issues as they occur in your daily life.

Find More Fulfillment and Joy

Therapy is an investment in yourself which can serve not only to help you problem solve but also to energize your life, actualize your potential, and better realize your hopes and dreams. The goal of therapy is to stop behaviors and belief patterns that have had negative effects on you and those around you and to create more of what you do want in your life: healthy relationships, meaningful time with family and friends, increased productivity at work, feeling comfortable in your own skin, and sustained peace of mind.

At Flatiron Mental Health Counseling, we strive to embody the values of connection, curiosity, compassion and collaboration within a person-centered approach to therapy, a non-pathologizing and empowering stance towards understanding human problems.

The human-to-human connection between the therapist and the client is paramount and provides both a foundation for change and a transformational relationship in which healing can occur. The therapeutic relationship provides a safe space that allows one to be seen, felt and understood through genuine curiousity about you, your beliefs, circumstances and inner world; as well as compassion, literally “feeling with” in the face of suffering, sorrow and the full range of human emotions.

We believe that each person has the capacity for change and is equipped with the inner resources to do so. Therapists who work collaboratively trust their clients to know themselves (or have the potential to know themselves) better than anyone else and help them to access their own inner wisdom that is always ready to support healing, change and growth.

Flatiron Mental Health Counseling provides counseling and psychotherapy services for individuals struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, relationships and intimacy, loss and career/life transitions. Our current staff includes Helga Byrne LMHC, NCC, CASAC; Emma Davidson LMHC and Monica E. Foster Psychotherapist in Training.

Depression and Anxiety

Depression can make you feel overwhelmed, angry, alone and down. It can also make it harder to do the very things that help to alleviate depression. By developing tools to cope with the symptoms of depression and gaining insight into the underlying causes, you can begin to lift the veil of depression and participate in and more fully enjoy life again.

Anxiety can manifest itself in various ways, including excessive or debilitating worry, social anxiety, panic attacks and even physical symptoms (tightness, sore muscles, stomach distress). Using CBT, psychodynamic psychotherapy and mindfulness techniques, you can learn ways to manage and reduce your anxiety, providing much needed relief. These same tools can also help you to manage and reduce stress in your life.

Areas of Expertise

Relationships and Intimacy

Navigating relationships can often be one of the more challenging aspects of life. Learning to communicate in an authentic and honest way; addressing fears that get in the way of connecting with others in a meaningful way; forming new ways of relating to others; and learning to set and maintain healthy boundaries can lead to conflict reduction, improved communication and more fulfilling relationships.

When people feel disconnected from themselves, it can often manifest itself in poor self esteem, self criticism and self judgment, depression and feelings of isolation. Therapy can help you value and become more aligned with your inner self, reducing internal conflict and distress, and fostering greater self acceptance, self esteem and fulfillment.

Substance Abuse, Addiction and Compulsive Behaviors

Using or abusing substances like alcohol or drugs, gambling, excessive spending and emotional eating are all examples of compulsive behaviors and are often accompanied by shame, guilt and self judgment. Whether you are in the process of determining whether you have a problem with substance abuse or a compulsive behavior or are already in recovery, our counselors can help you gain insight into unproductive beliefs that may lead to or exacerbate compulsive or unhealthy behaviors, identify new ways and tools to address underlying emotional needs, and redirect yourself into more productive and healthy behaviors.

LGBTQI+ Affirmative Counseling

You may be questioning your sexual identity, experiencing internalized or externalized homophobia, struggling with norms in your community of choice, or deciding whether to come out to your family or friends. Our goal is to provide a safe and affirming therapeutic environment to all of our lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQI+) clients in which to explore and address these important and complex issues and questions and in which your sexual orientation is understood, respected and fully supported.

Trauma and Loss

Difficult events happen in people’s lives. They can be dramatic striking events, an isolated incident or a succession of incidents, or a more subtle yet equally eroding experience. You may have experienced a recent or past loss of a loved one, a physical limitation or disability, or have lost a job. Or you may be suffering from childhood abuse, neglect or trauma. Our therapists will work with you to create a safe environment that supports healing; help you process and integrate your feelings, provide emotional support, and help you manage collateral symptoms such as anxiety and depression.

Getting Unstuck

Everyone goes through periods in their life where they may feel unfulfilled, dissatisfied or confused about what they want or how to move forward with their life or career. Or you may find yourself repeating the same negative patterns or self destructive behaviors.

Whether you are experiencing a life or career transition, or want to engage in self exploration to enhance personal growth, therapy can help. By exploring your goals, dreams, motivations and behaviors, you can gain greater clarity as to why you feel stuck, identify and transform sabotaging belief systems and destructive behavior patterns, and identify ways to move forward into increased effectiveness in living the life you want.