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Area of Specialty

Anxiety
Anxiety

Anxiety can be exhausting and isolating — impacting your relationships, your ability to focus, and your overall sense of peace. In therapy, we work together to understand the roots of your anxiety, including past experiences, internal narratives, and attachment patterns that may be fueling it.

Using an insight-oriented and relational approach, we’ll explore how anxiety shows up in your life and what it might be trying to signal. Therapy can help you develop more awareness, regulate your emotional state, and begin to shift out of reactive cycles and into greater clarity and calm.

You don’t have to navigate anxiety alone. Our work can help you feel more grounded, empowered, and connected — both to yourself and the people around you.

Depression
Depression

Depression can feel like disconnection — from others, from purpose, and from yourself. It may show up as persistent sadness, lack of motivation, emotional numbness, or a deep sense of shame or worthlessness.

In therapy, we take time to understand how depression operates in your life — emotionally, relationally, and historically. Together, we explore the underlying beliefs, internal conflicts, and relationship dynamics that may be keeping you stuck. We also pay attention to the impact of early experiences, losses, and unspoken emotional pain.

This work isn’t about quick fixes. It’s about building a deeper relationship with yourself, developing compassion and insight, and creating room for vitality, meaning, and connection to return.

Trauma
Trauma

Trauma can leave deep emotional imprints that affect how you relate to yourself and others. You may find yourself feeling disconnected, reactive, hypervigilant, or shut down in ways that don’t match your current life — often tied to experiences that were overwhelming, unsafe, or unresolved.

In trauma therapy, we work gently and collaboratively to create a safe space where difficult emotions and memories can be explored at your pace. Our work is guided by curiosity and compassion, with attention to the mind-body connection and the power of the therapeutic relationship as a healing tool.

Whether you’ve experienced acute trauma, developmental or relational trauma, or ongoing emotional neglect, therapy can support your path toward integration, resilience, and reconnection with your sense of self.

Life Transitions
Life Transitions

Life transitions — whether expected or unexpected — can stir up uncertainty, grief, anxiety, and identity shifts. You might be navigating a career change, becoming a parent, ending a relationship, or experiencing a significant loss. Even positive changes can feel destabilizing and emotionally complex.

In therapy, we make space to reflect on what’s shifting, what’s being let go of, and what new parts of yourself are emerging. These transitions often bring up unresolved past experiences or emotional patterns — and working through them with curiosity and support can lead to deeper growth.

Therapy for life transitions helps you:

  • Process grief, fear, or uncertainty around change

  • Explore shifts in identity, roles, or purpose

  • Understand emotional reactions tied to past transitions

  • Strengthen internal coping strategies and emotional resources

  • Reflect on thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that emerge in transition

You don’t have to manage life’s changes alone. Therapy can be a grounding space to process the in-between and move forward with more clarity and intention.

Relationships
Relationships

Relationship focused therapy is for individuals who want to better understand how they connect, communicate, and experience closeness with others. Whether you’re feeling stuck in recurring patterns, navigating conflict, or longing for deeper intimacy, this work can help clarify what’s getting in the way of more satisfying relationships.

Through an attachment-informed and insight-oriented lens, we explore how early relational experiences may be shaping your present. Together, we examine your emotional responses, unmet needs, and protective patterns — helping you build greater self-awareness and more intentional ways of relating.

This therapy supports:

  • Navigating dating and partnership challenges

  • Understanding emotional triggers in connection

  • Breaking out of cycles of conflict, withdrawal, or codependence

  • Healing after relational ruptures or betrayals

  • Cultivating secure and meaningful connections

Relationship focused therapy is about helping you create new possibilities for connection, communication, and emotional safety.

Couples Therapy
Couples Therapy

Relationships can be a source of both connection and pain. Couples therapy offers a space to slow down and understand the emotional dynamics between partners — especially when communication breaks down, conflict escalates, or intimacy feels out of reach.

Using an attachment-informed and emotionally attuned approach, I help couples explore their interaction patterns, unmet needs, and emotional injuries that may be blocking closeness. Together, we work to restore trust, deepen understanding, and build a more secure connection.

Couples therapy can help with:

  • Communication challenges

  • Emotional distance or disconnection

  • Recurring conflicts and misunderstandings

  • Infidelity or breaches of trust

  • Navigating life transitions or parenting stress

You don’t need to wait for things to fall apart to seek support. Therapy can help you grow as a couple — with more clarity, empathy, and mutual respect.

Contact Me

Contact Me

For any questions you have, you can reach me here:

Therapy session discussion

Dayna Shapiro, Psy.D.

646-419-8777

DrDaynaShapiro@gmail.com

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