Embodied Fantasy Therapy

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I offer individual psychotherapy at my office located at 303 Fifth Avenue, open Monday through Friday, to patients with a wide variety of disorders, constructive factors, and backgrounds. I hold a space where many patients feel comfortable confiding things in me they normally never, or rarely, tell others. They attain an authenticity by revealing their mind and heart to themselves and to me. This is the holding environment that D.W. Winnicott describes.  I also help patients to recognize their own ambivalence and to improve perspective-taking.  I assist with problem-solving, self-regulation, social communication, mindfulness in navigating impulses, recognizing unwanted feelings, conflicts and self-states, being free from toxic relationship/objects, believing in one's body that a trauma has truly concluded, exploring self-esteem, and dismantling self-attack.

I utilize interpersonal therapy, object relations, psychoanalytic technique, CBT and trauma therapy in response to your needs.

I accept most major insurance, including Anthem (BCBS), Aetna, Cigna, United Healthcare, Carelon (Beacon), and Medicare.

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Embodied Fantasy Therapy offers group therapy in a loft by Union Square Park, using short meditations and yogic breathing exercises with psychodynamic psychotherapy. Clients become more attuned to their own bodies while verbalizing their experience and its dynamic meaning. Mutual validation is sought, alongside imagination.

Let us feel our minds immersed in our bodies--not as separate--functioning autonomously while circumscribed within the capacities provided by the body in the brain. The harmful Cartesian mind/body divide, where people feel distant from their bodies and therefore their feelings, disconnected, dissolves. Authentic embodiment follows, together with verbalization as clients find self-understanding in the interpersonal contexts of the group. 

Fantasies are explored, including the constructive ones, unrealized, and distorted fantasies that can be faced, so that they lose their power, re-directed to healthy purposes.

 The groups are capped at 12 and patients must register in advance. 

Facilitated by Dr. Dylan Marks and other clinically trained staff.