New York State
Therapy in Brooklyn
You can name your attachment style, explain the whole pattern to a friend, and still feel your chest go tight when someone takes six hours to answer a text. Knowing the shape of a thing is not the same as being free of it.
Working together from Brooklyn
How this actually works
There is no office in Brooklyn. Sessions are telehealth, with you physically located somewhere in New York State when we meet — a Brooklyn apartment counts, and so does anywhere else in the state. What that buys you is a therapy hour that survives a bad commute, a late meeting, or a week you'd rather not travel in. What it costs you is the shared room, which some people miss and others find easier to do without.
I don’t have an office there. Weekly therapy is telehealth, and you need to be physically located in New York State at the time of each session.
Why people get in touch
What brings people here
Individual work, not couples
All therapy here is individual, and couples aren't seen in this practice. That turns out to be a workable place to do relationship work, because the material is yours: what you do when someone gets close, what you do when they pull back, and what you learned to expect long before this particular person showed up.
Where patterns actually live
Attachment responses don't wait for you to decide anything. They arrive as heat in the face, a flat voice, the urge to get ahead of the leaving by doing it first. Somatic and experiential psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems, and Inner Relationship Focusing all include what is happening in your body as information, alongside talking. There is no physical touch.
A person on the other side
Melanie shows up as herself rather than a blank screen. Sessions are 50 minutes, usually weekly, at $235, and a free consultation of 15 to 20 minutes comes first, by video or phone. Attachment patterns are learned in relationship and can shift in relationship. Progress is usually gradual and uneven, and no outcome is guaranteed.
FAQ
Questions from Brooklyn
Do you have an office in Brooklyn?
No. Melanie's only office is in Manhattan, and weekly therapy does not happen there. Weekly therapy takes place via telehealth. I am licensed in New York and can only offer psychotherapy services to people who reside in New York State. You also need to be physically located in the state at the time of each session.
Can my partner join a session?
No. All the work here is individual and I don't see couples. If couples therapy is what you need, that's a different clinician, and I'd rather say so early than stretch this into something it isn't.
Does telehealth really work for relationship patterns?
It can. The patterns come with you into the session — the guardedness, the over-explaining, the checking of my face for a reaction. Therapy outcomes are not guaranteed, and the consultation is there partly to work out whether this is a fit.
What do sessions cost?
$235 for 50 minutes, usually weekly. Out-of-network with all insurance plans, no sliding scale, and a monthly superbill for possible out-of-network reimbursement, which is never guaranteed. Changing a session needs 24 hours' notice, otherwise the full fee applies.
What if something happens between sessions?
If you are in danger right now, call or text 988 or dial 911. This site isn't a crisis service and email is not monitored for emergencies. The ordinary hard week we pick up at the next hour.
Start with a free consultation
A short conversation to see whether we would be a good fit for working together. Weekly therapy takes place via telehealth. I am licensed in New York and can only offer psychotherapy services to people who reside in New York State.