About
If you’re reading this, you probably know what feeling stuck is like. Maybe you’ve done the work (therapy, self-help, trying to think your way out of it) and you’re still anxious, still on edge, and don’t feel like yourself. Maybe you keep landing in the same patterns, or you hold it together for everyone else and fall apart when you’re alone. Maybe you’ve stopped believing things can change.
I understand that place, both personally and through years of sitting with people in some of the hardest moments of their lives.
I’m Tanya, LCSW, licensed in New York and Connecticut, with eight years of clinical experience rooted in crisis work. My career began with families facing deep hardship and systemic barriers, then grew into emergency mental health response, working in the community alongside dispatchers, fire, EMS, and law enforcement. That gave me a close view of trauma from both sides: the toll on people living through crisis, and the vicarious trauma carried by those who respond. After serving as clinical director of a community mental health clinic, I moved into trauma-focused psychotherapy, working with adults navigating anxiety, depression, PTSD, and complex trauma, including direct service professionals and those in high-stress corporate careers.
This path is what drew me to this work. I’ve been touched by trauma and vicarious trauma myself, and spent years surrounded by people carrying it too. But I don’t believe trauma has to define you. The more we understand the nervous system, the more we can move past needing trauma to be the story, and start building the capacity to take life back on your own terms.