I have been a practicing psychotherapist for 15 years, specializing in individual and couples therapy for adults of all ages. I primarily practice using an insight & process-oriented psychodynamic approach with an enduring commitment to utilizing a systemic and anti-oppressive lens. My work with clients tends to acknowledge and emphasize the relational, “in-the-moment” facets of treatment as I work to help build safety, trust, and intimacy between us so that we can explore the deeper (psychic, somatic, and energetic) patterns that may be affecting your life and your relationship to yourself and others. I also incorporate somatic, trauma-informed, and shamanic strategies to help clients better understand, move through, and transmute the effects of past events and experiences. I specialize in working with complex, attachment/relational trauma, and I also understand the gravity of social trauma and the insidious ways that oppression can hinder us.
My practice is eclectic and draws heavily from my training in Depth Psychology, Attachment Theory, Somatic Technologies, Plant Medicine, Parts Work, Jungian Dream Interpretation, Tibetan Buddhism, Polymorphic Listening Strategies, Nervous System Resourcing, and Shamanic Journeying.
I enjoy supporting a diverse range of people through various life transitions and personal challenges and I have extensive experience serving LGBTQAI-identified adults, as well as artists, writers, and people working in creative fields. I work to help clients gain deeper psychological, emotional, somatic, and spiritual self-awareness and am attuned to each person's unique process of healing and meaning-making.
Individual Therapy
I work with adults of all ages in individual therapy to help clients learn to identify and articulate their own emotions, needs, and desires. My goal is to help you bring your life into greater alignment with the natural currents of your highest self. My approach is relational, somatic, and process oriented, with greater self-awareness, insight, intimacy and embodiement as our mutual aspirations. Treatment is flexible and tailored to each person’s needs.
I am LGBTQAI+ aware and affirming and I also have extensive experience helping artists and people working in creative fields to gain a deeper understanding of their creative impulses and practices. I treat depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, and the myriad effects of personal, family, and social traumas.
Plant Medicine Integrations
🌿 Integration sessions are psycho-spiritual, heart-centered, meaning-making explorations into the various energies that have been activated throughout your journeys. Together, we will follow the clues to awaken the innate intelligence of your soma, your psyche, and your spirit.
My aim is to join with you to restore safety, belonging, and dignity where they may have been otherwise comprised. By dropping in together, we will leverage this new, felt expansion and begin the work of integrating it into all facets of your life. When we are able to make our unconscious, shadow material more recognizable, we can move into greater alignment. Within this integrative process, my approach is deeply relational and attachment-focused, with greater joy, self-awareness, agency, insight, embodiment, purpose, and intimacy with self and others, as our mutual aspirations.
Couples Therapy
I work with all types of couples, partnerships, and intimate relationships to help clients improve their overall communication and ability to understand and empathize with one another’s experiences. I am comfortable and skilled working within monogamous, polyamorous, and "open" relational structures. Treatment will focus on relational dynamics and the narratives we tell about ourselves and our loved ones. We will explore how our relational habits and patterns can make us feel stuck and re-create painful feelings from our past experiences. Through our work together, clients will become better at recognizing and addressing these patterns in an effort to create a safe, supportive, and fulfilling relationship for every participant.
I also worked, for many years, as a Sex Educator and I am extremely comfortable and well-versed in regard to issues around Sex — Sexual dynamics, practices, and fantasies that both fuel and frustrate us.
Online Sessions: I offer online sessions for people in NYC and beyond. I am able to work with clients living all over the United States, as well as internationally.
Groups: I offer various small groups for:
Plant Medicine Practitioners
Survivors of Suicide
Current Rates
All Individual and Couples Sessions are set at Industry Standard Rates.
Sliding scale slots are offered upon need and availability. I can also be seen as an "out-of-network" provider for people who have that particular benefit through their insurance plan.
All sessions are 50-minutes, unless a longer session is arranged ahead of time.
I work in person as well as online.
Office Location
My New York City office is conveniently located in the Financial District, right next to the Fulton street Subway station: 2, 3, 4, 5, A, C, J, R, Z trains
139 Fulton Street, Suite #616, NYC 10038
Contact
To discuss my services, or to set up an appointment, please email me at cassiepetersonlcsw@gmail.com or call me at 347-228-3825.