Service

Individual Therapy

Mentalization-Based · Trauma-Informed · CBT & DBT-Informed

A tailored blue chair in a quiet daylight consultation room

Individual therapy with Kyle is designed for people whose lives, relationships, and responsibilities require more than a standardized approach.

Clients often arrive with insight, discipline, and outward success, yet continue to encounter patterns that are difficult to change alone. These may appear in relationships, decision-making, emotional regulation, identity, or the private strain of carrying significant responsibility.

The work is highly individualized, clinically rigorous, and grounded in a clear understanding of the person within the full context of their life.

FormatIn-Person & Telehealth
ApproachMentalization-Based, Trauma-Informed, CBT & DBT-Informed
LocationNew York City · Westhampton Beach · NY · CT · NJ · FL

What to Expect

Sessions are direct, thoughtful, and collaborative.

The work focuses on what happens within you and between you and others, particularly when pressure, uncertainty, conflict, or emotion begins to narrow perspective. Together, we examine the assumptions, patterns, and responses shaping your experience in real time.

You can expect candid dialogue, careful clinical judgment, and practical support that extends beyond insight alone. When appropriate, real-time coaching helps translate the work into clearer decisions, stronger boundaries, and more effective responses as challenges unfold.

Who This Is For

  • Complex personal, family, or professional relationships
  • Repeating patterns in intimacy, conflict, trust, or attachment
  • Personality and relational difficulties
  • Trauma, including sexual abuse and intimate partner violence
  • LGBTQIA+ identity, relationships, and minority stress
  • High levels of responsibility, visibility, or interpersonal pressure
  • Perfectionism, self-criticism, impulsivity, or emotional intensity
  • Major transitions, identity concerns, or loss of direction
  • Success without a corresponding sense of stability or fulfillment

Our Approach

Kyle's work is grounded in Mentalization-Based Treatment, an evidence-based approach that strengthens the capacity to understand yourself and others, especially when emotion, stress, or interpersonal pressure makes clear thinking more difficult.

Treatment is trauma-informed, person-centered, and informed by CBT and DBT principles. This allows the work to integrate psychological depth with practical strategies for emotional regulation, behavior change, and decision-making, while remaining attentive to safety, pacing, and the ways past experiences continue to shape present relationships.

The aim is not simply to reduce symptoms. It is to help you remain reflective under pressure, understand the forces shaping your responses, and act with greater clarity, flexibility, and intention.

Individual therapy with Kyle begins with the shape of your life, relationships, and responsibilities, not a standardized protocol.