Therapy for Trauma and PTSD in New York
Therapy for Trauma and PTSD can help you regain safety, rebuild trust in relationships, and find your way toward healing, resilience, and a brighter future. You do not have to carry this alone.
Trauma & PTSD Therapy — At a Glance
- ✓ CBT, DBT, ACT & Psychodynamic therapy
- ✓ Trauma-informed care from a diverse team
- ✓ Same-week complimentary screening available
- ✓ In-person: Midtown Manhattan, NYC
- ✓ Telehealth: New York, New Jersey & Florida
- ✓ In-network with Aetna & Lyra Health
- ✓ English, Español & हिंदी available
Matched with a trauma-trained therapist within 1–5 days
What Trauma Therapy Can Help You Gain
Therapy for Trauma and PTSD helps you gain awareness, insight, and understanding of how traumatic events have affected you — and the real skills to move forward.
Safety Skills
Good for coping with triggers and prioritizing safety in all areas of your life — emotional, behavioral, and relational. You'll learn to recognize warning signs, manage reactions to reminders of trauma, and build a sense of groundedness in the present moment.
Trust-Building Skills
Good for building a healthy, supportive network and learning to ask for help when needed. Trauma often damages our ability to trust — therapy helps you rebuild that capacity gradually and safely, starting with your therapeutic relationship.
Sleep Hygiene Skills
Good for managing nightmares, building consistency, establishing and maintaining a predictable routine. Trauma frequently disrupts sleep — these skills help restore rest, which is essential to healing every other aspect of trauma recovery.
Boundary-Setting Skills
Good for reclaiming control, expressing your needs and feelings clearly, and maintaining safe and healthy relationships. Many trauma survivors struggle with boundaries — this is a survivorship pattern, not a character flaw, and it can change.
Mindfulness & Relaxation
Good for calming your nervous system, staying present, managing intense emotions related to flashbacks — such as fear and anger — and reducing hypervigilance. These techniques work with the body, not just the mind.
Resilience & Meaning-Making
Good for integrating traumatic experiences into your life story in a way that neither minimizes what happened nor defines who you are. Resilience is built — not born — and we help you build it step by step.
Trauma-trained, diverse therapists who understand healing is a personal, non-linear journey
Do I Need Therapy for Trauma and PTSD?
Trauma can have a profound and lasting impact on a person's life, making it difficult to function and thrive. Much like throwing a stone into still water, the initial shock sends ripples out that affect other parts of your life.
Trauma can come from anywhere, and not all traumatic events affect everyone in the same way. You may experience posttraumatic stress symptoms that derail your ability to trust others, negatively affect your capacity to manage your emotions, and impact your functioning at work or in your relationships.
You don't need a formal PTSD diagnosis to benefit from trauma therapy. Many people find that the effects of trauma are present even when they don't immediately connect their struggles to a specific past event.
Common signs you may benefit from trauma therapy:- Intrusive memories or flashbacks
- Nightmares or disturbed sleep
- Emotional numbness or detachment
- Hypervigilance — feeling constantly "on edge"
- Avoidance of reminders of the trauma
- Difficulty trusting others or feeling safe
- Irritability, anger, or emotional outbursts
- Difficulty concentrating or remembering
- Feeling disconnected from your own life
- Physical reactions to trauma reminders
Diverse therapists who understand trauma across cultures, identities, and life experiences
Common Traumatic Experiences We Help With
Our team of diverse, trauma-trained, and informed therapists helps individuals from all walks of life to heal from a variety of traumatic experiences — including those related to generational patterns, race, gender, sexuality, culture, and identity.
The effects of trauma depend on your age, whether you experienced previous traumatic events, and the kind of support you received at the time. Trauma can be single-incident or chronic. Both are real, and both deserve care.
Sexual assault or abuse
Childhood abuse (physical, emotional, sexual)
Domestic violence — experiencing or witnessing
Car accidents or physical injuries
Death of a loved one
Military combat & veteran trauma
Racial & generational trauma
Immigration & cultural trauma
Religious or spiritual abuse
Medical trauma or chronic illness
How Trauma Can Affect Your Life
Recovering from trauma is a unique and personal journey. Understanding how it shows up in your life is the first step toward healing.
In Your Relationships
Trauma can make it hard to trust others, create fear of intimacy or abandonment, lead to people-pleasing or conflict avoidance, and leave you feeling disconnected from the people you care about most.
In Your Body
Trauma lives in the body. You may experience a racing heart, muscle tension, fatigue, headaches, GI issues, or physical reactions to reminders of the trauma — even when your mind understands you're safe.
In Your Work & Daily Life
Concentration difficulties, avoidance behaviors, perfectionism as a control mechanism, underperformance despite capability, and burnout are all common ways trauma shows up in your professional and daily life.
In Your Sense of Self
Trauma can alter how you see yourself — leading to shame, self-blame, a fragmented sense of identity, difficulty making decisions, or a persistent feeling that you are fundamentally broken or "too much."
"Recovering from trauma is a unique and personal journey. Our team of diverse, trauma-trained therapists helps individuals from all walks of life to heal, rebuild trust, and move toward a brighter future. We are here to support you every step of the way."— The Let's Talk Psychological Wellness Team
Our Approach to Trauma and PTSD Therapy
Sessions are collaborative, non-stigmatizing, and paced entirely to your needs. We work closely with any other provider you may have — whether a psychiatrist, nurse practitioner, or primary care doctor.
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CBT
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Used to spot and shift unhelpful thought patterns that trauma creates — including self-blame, catastrophic thinking, and distorted beliefs about safety, trust, control, and your own worth.
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DBT
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Helps regulate the intense emotions that come with trauma — including overwhelming fear, anger, shame, and numbness — so you can stay present with your experience without being consumed by it.
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ACT
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Helps you act in accordance with your values even in the presence of painful trauma-related thoughts and feelings — rather than waiting until you "feel better" to re-engage with what matters to you.
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PSY
Psychodynamic Therapy Increases insight and awareness — helping you understand how traumatic experiences from the past are shaping your present relationships, patterns of behavior, and sense of self.
Sessions are guided by brief validated check-ins including GAD-7, PHQ-9, and ACEs to support our work together and track your progress. All trauma care is culturally responsive and adapted to your background, identity, and values.
Expert Trauma Care That Fits Your Life
We've removed every barrier between you and the trauma support you deserve — same-week availability, flexible access, and transparent insurance options.
15+ Diverse Licensed Clinicians
We are a group of licensed clinical psychologists, mental health counselors, and clinical social workers. For over a decade, we have been helping early-career professionals, college and professional school students, new mothers, immigrants, and first-generation individuals heal from a wide range of traumatic experiences.
Collaborative & Paced to You
Sessions are collaborative, non-stigmatizing, and paced entirely to your needs. We coordinate with your psychiatrist, nurse practitioner, or primary care doctor when relevant. Your healing is the priority — not a timeline.
In-Person & Telehealth Available
In-person sessions at 303 Fifth Avenue, Midtown Manhattan. Telehealth available across New York, New Jersey, and Florida via HIPAA-compliant secure video. Care is available in English, Español, and हिंदी (Hindi). Same-week complimentary screening available.
Aetna & Lyra Health In-Network
We are in-network with Aetna and Lyra Health with select clinicians. We support out-of-network benefits — we can provide superbills for reimbursement. HSA and FSA payments are accepted. Contact us before your first session for a benefits check.
What Our Clients Say
Verified reviews from ZocDoc and Google — real words from people who chose to work with our team.
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