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Menucha Banayan Brooklyn, New York, USAI'm accepting new clients! I work with individuals and couples, navigating relationship struggles through a trauma-informed lens, helping you connect on a deeper emotional level.
I offer a supportive, personalized approach that meets you where you are. Together, we’ll identify and shift unhelpful patterns so you can reconnect, communicate more effectively, and build lasting trust and intimacy.
I am an EFT-informed therapist, as well as Gottman-certified. Utilizing these methods, we'll discover new ways to overcome the obstacles in your relationship. We’ll work together to help you reconnect with yourself and your partner and feel love again.
I also work with indiv…
Chaya Feuerman, Psychotherapist, LCSW-R Brooklyn, NY 11210, USA
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Trauma comes in many different forms and can occur in a variety of ways and at any stage of life. My specialty practice focuses on all forms of trauma, including physical and emotional abuse and neglect, sexual abuse and exploitation, spiritual and religious abuse, educational abuse and neglect, financial exploitation, environmental traumas including vehicular accidents and natural disasters as well as complex grief and loss.
I am a Certified IFS Therapist, Certified EMDR Therapist and Certified Brainspotting Therapist. All three are empirically prove…
Dear Therapist:
I feel like eating disorders can be hard to recognize early because they do not always look extreme at first.
Someone close to me has become much more focused and rigid around food and eating habits, and I am not sure what is normal and what is cause for concern. Since nothing looks severe from the outside, it is hard to know when people should start paying attention.
What are some signs that eating behaviors may be becoming unhea …
Dear Therapist:
I have struggled with anxiety and depression on and off for years. Recently, after a stressful medical situation, my symptoms became worse, and I returned to therapy.
My therapist has recommended medication. I have always been somewhat hesitant because of concerns about side effects and personality changes. My husband is also strongly opposed to medication, believing it can alter personality and cause emotional “numbness.&rd …
Dear Therapist:
We have a teenage son who has been struggling. He has become moody, angry, and seems depressed. We are trying to take the right steps and have gotten help from a therapist and psychologist, who have said he is dealing with depression. Recently, someone in his school told us they strongly believe that with the way he is doing, there must have been some kind of trauma, and that this is where this is all coming from. That has left us …
Dear Therapist:
My husband recently lost his mother. They were very close, and he has taken it very hard. He is the youngest in the family, and she was niftar relatively young and suddenly. I’ve been trying to support him, but I’m not sure what is helpful. At times I try to lift his mood or help him move forward, but it does not seem to land well. At the same time, I hear that grieving needs space, and that trying to move on …
Dear Therapist:
I’m writing about my father-in-law, who is in his mid-seventies. He has significant health issues, including serious kidney problems that may require dialysis, and it has been very hard on him. He is still sharp, but we believe he is depressed. He has always had somewhat of a low disposition, but now it feels like it is really affecting his day-to-day life. We are wondering how best to help. At this stage in life, is psychot …
Dear Therapist:
I’m currently engaged, and baruch Hashem things seem to be going very well.
At the same time, I hear people say that these days many don’t really understand what makes a marriage work, and that there are misconceptions that only become clear later on.
Everything feels good now, but I’m aware that engagement is not the same as real life. I’m trying to go in with open eyes and realistic expecta …
