✨ Anxiety + Trauma Therapy for REAL New Yorkers
Therapy for REAL New Yorkers! People actually born here, whose parents and grandparents might have been too, but more likely they were transplants headed to NYC for the American dream of a better life.
A REAL New Yorker has SEEN some sh*t!
Whether it was simply while riding on public transportation, attending public school, enjoying one of the city’s gorgeous parks or interacting with someone who has obviously slipped through the cracks of our decades-long broken healthcare system, you have witnessed first hand how REAL life can get around here. Your skin has been toughened by a city that never sleeps.
New Yorkers are NOT suckers!
You know how to stretch a buck because it doesn’t get you very far around here. You know a good deal when you see one AND how to avoid falling prey to the latest wellness trends. Affordability and quality of therapy and other mental health services in New York varies greatly depending on several factors:
Clinician Experience - New professionals can offer rates that seasoned therapists, counselors and coaches cannot due to the level of training, years of experience, level of support, depth of knowledge and results they offer.
Specialty Training - NYC Therapists with a good amount of experience typically recognize certain niches they serve well and provide GREAT outcomes for. Specialty training and specialty treatment planning takes time and $$$ that you will notice compared to someone who “treats everything”.
Perspective/Lens/Professional Ethics - Influencers and wellness coaches are literally held to zero industry standards. Please tread carefully!! Many coaches charge more than clinicians with decades upon decades of training simply because they can. There isn’t a set of ethical principles driving their profession and thus a lot of people are operating predatory practices, claiming to exist outside the historically problematic Mental Health world. Some are journeying a little TOOOOO outside these parameters by claiming to provide “trauma informed” support, opening wounds they’re ill equip to deal with.
A true understanding of science without pathologizing every behavior or overdiagnosing.
Things all people living in New York, Brooklyn or NYC should be seeking counseling around:
How mad you are at the mayor(s) — let’s be really real — all of them!
Being a cynical New Yorker hoping to become more of a “cautious optimist”.
Your favorite shop that unfortunately closed due to the pandemic, Amazon or any of the other reasons NY small businesses have been struggling.
How awful alternate side parking is for those who have a car for some reason (we know, it’s for Trader Joe’s runs and visiting the fam in NJ, PA, CT, etc.).
Living in a sanctuary city with a target on it’s back.
Therapy for people nostalgic for “Old Brooklyn”
My grandparents, parents and their siblings played all the games mentioned in this video and had block communities just like this. I remember the block parties of the 90s, roller blading and playing with the other kids on their stoop without a care in the world. I was often babysitting my Greek neighbors granddaughter until her parents got home from work and Yaiyai was finished cooking dinner. Pappou would have his daily glass of scotch that he insisted kept him healthy. In a time before cell phones, our parents could yell from our living room window into theirs if they wanted to check on us.
“Back East” as NYers now residing on the west coast call it, is now a memory of a city preserved the same way they left it in the 80s, 90s or early 2000s. I am reminded every time I talk to my fav aunt in California who sounds more BROOKLYN than anyone in my family, despite not having lived here for over 30 years. It can be sad to see how much things have changed. It can also be a proud moment for those of us who never left and continue to believe NYC is the greatest city in the world.
As a lifelong New Yorker and Brooklynite, I’ve got nuanced views and engage in complex work that just doesn’t fit neatly into social media marketing or blog posts. My clients would describe themselves as New Yorkers who at least try to see the shades of grey and do some self-reflecting before rushing to polarized views. It’s not always easy, especially if you live amongst people who voice very different values or try to silence you.
I am happy to hold space for New Yorkers of all belief systems, backgrounds, senses of humor, politics and identities — regardless of how similar or different we might be from one another. I’ve had a lifetime of practice inside my own family, not to mention the decades of training in mental health for New Yorkers needing support around:
+ more!
NYC in 2023 isn't like anything you've experienced before
We’re all trying to figure out who’s living off of our energy and trying to protect ourselves more as we search for community and like-minds that have undergone a similar re-examining of the world over the last few years.
You need new supports and coping skills to match the new demands life has thrust upon you unapologetically. I suggest starting with therapy — not because it will cure all the problems, but you have to be aware of your problems in order to fix them. It all starts with getting real with yourself which can be hard to do when your survival relies on resilience, comparison and mental toughness.
NYC: face it, you’re a little bougie
Okay, not really, you just don’t settle for less because you know how that story plays out. You work hard and deserve the best. Therapy in NYC can be $$$$ due to factors like the insurance industry claiming our area is “saturated” with clinicians and thus offering us rates like $27 an hour that make running a business that doesn’t rely on corporate or government handouts impossible. In Therapy with Desiree — a Brooklynite born and bred for 2 generations — you won’t be able to use your health insurance, but who in the city actually has good health insurance anyway? The prime reason for this being our discomfort with the current practices and procedures recommended by big pharma, big tech and big insurance TBH. We strive to give you the highest level of care, evidence-based therapeutic interventions WHILE protecting your data and not centering all of our work around a diagnosis that may or may not follow you.
In here, you’re able to pay by debit, credit card or electronic transfer. Our boutique, small-batch, hand-crafted mental health services are designed to practically do what the Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind peeps were trying to do, except safely and with proper consent.
Let NYC Therapy help you find your people
It’s not always easy sharing a city with people going in the complete opposite direction.
In a city this big, it’s weird how often so many of us can feel isolated and alone. In virtual therapy with Brooklyn’s top rated aniety and trauma therapist, you’ll learn how to find your people and build community that helps you feel validated, connected, seen, inspired and welcome to be authentic with.
Like Otis from Sex Therapy, I’m out here trying not to make an ass of myself marketing to 18 to 20somethings needing a safe place to talk things out without feeling judged or pathologized.
If any of this hits home for you, we’d likely be an excellent fit to create lasting change in your life. Book your consult call now to get started!!
Thanks for reading! Some tunes for the real ones out there as you fill out our intake form:
Imani Coppola (a.k.a Little Jackie)
sings “the New Yorker”
#TBT to young ‘fina
performing “NYC Bitche$”
Until next time,
be well! <3
