Working deeply with my clients' feelings to help their authentic selves emerge, we examine repetitive negative patterns in the context of personal history and experience.

Your Psychological Health is my Priority

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About
About Dr. Abbie Elkin
Dr. Abbie Elkin is a highly skilled and experienced psychologist committed to providing top-quality psychological care. With a gentle and compassionate approach, Dr. Elkin creates a positive and comfortable experience for every patient.
Dr. Elkin has been in private practice since 2003. She graduatied with a Doctorate from Adelphi University. She did post-graduate training in Emotionally Focused Therapy and in The Developmental Model at the Couples Institute.
She guides people beyond their immediate struggles by helping them understand themselves better and by tapping into their natural abilities to help themselves overcome challenges. Her insight-oriented approach helps clients get to the root of what is troubling them and relieves their symptoms. When stress is relieved, people can make more effective decisions and healthier choices.
She specializes in helping people adjust to significant life modifications, such as life and health changes, relationship changes, and employment changes. She also focuses on anxiety and depressive disorders.

Services

My Work

I work with a broad range of patients who are racially, culturally and religiously diverse and sensitive to LGBTQ issues, in both individual and couples therapy sessions. I use the following approaches: Information and Referral Psychoeducation Relational Emotional/ Experientially focused Psychodynamic Developmental Model Meditation/Mindfulness Prevention Issue I Treat: Anger Management Anxiety/Panic Disorders Career/Employment Concerns Codependency Coping Skills Couple/Marital Issues Depression Dissociative Disorders Divorce Personal Development Emotional Family Conflict Grief/Loss Health Infertility Interpersonal Relationships Life Transitions Marital and Premarital Men’s and Women’s Issues Multicultural Issues Parenting Issues Peer Relationships Phobias Physical Illness/Impairment Pregnancy/Childbirth Prenatal Postpartum Psychosomatic Self-esteem Sexual Orientation Sexuality Issues Sleep Disorders or Insomnia Spiritual/Religious Concerns Stress Trauma/PTSD

Couples Work with Emotionally Focused Therapy and Developmental Model

Emotionally Focused Couples therapy works by identifying the negative pattern that has formed in the relationship and then building emotional security between the couples to reestablish the bond. As an Emotionally Focused Therapist, I work to make both partners feel understood with compassion and empathy. The length of this process varies for couples depending on how deep and long standing the hurts are and how motivated each person is to change it. The process works with the deep emotional hurts that raise feelings of anger, sadness and fear. Once these feelings are deeply understood by both partners and the therapist - the healing process begins and they can make space for a more loving connection. Another important element in couples work is understanding the individual differences between partners without it threatening the security of the relationship. Partner who can respect each other's differences grow as in their maturity as a couple. This approach is emotional and experiential.

Maintenance and Preventative Care

Therapy isn't just meant resolve problems or for the emotionally unstable. To live a life pf psychological balance one must take time to pay attention to their inner worlds and to make time to listen to themselves. We all need learn to support ourselves and to receive support in our lives. I would be honored to be on that journey with you.

Contact


 abbieelkin@gmail.com

  • 255 W 88th St #1a, Manhattan, New York, NY, United States
  • 815 Elm Ave, Teaneck, NJ 07666
  •  Mon-thurs - 10:00am -6:00pm Fri 9-1pm

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