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Personalized, integrative therapy for adults and teens. Weekly sessions, intensives, and structured programs for anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationships, and life transitions.
Brooklyn Heights · In-person and online across New York
Adults and teens
We see adults and teens across a wide range of situations: anxiety that’s been around for years, grief, trauma, and the bigger questions about direction, meaning, or identity.
Many clients come in during a life transition, or in the middle of a stretch where the same pattern keeps showing up. Some come for a specific piece of work. Some stay for years. The consult is a low-pressure way to figure out whether this is the right fit.
Our approach
“We don’t run a single method on every client. The first sessions are about understanding what’s happening: the pattern that keeps showing up, what you’re carrying from earlier in your life, what you want to be different.”
Individual therapy at Middle Way is trauma-informed, relational, and attentive to the nervous system. We draw on a small set of evidence-based modalities (EMDR, somatic therapy, the Safe & Sound Protocol, sex therapy, Depth Hypnosis, and neurofeedback), and the pacing follows what you’re actually working with.
What we draw on
Different work calls for different tools. These are the modalities our clinicians use most often in individual therapy. Most clients work primarily with one or two, with others layered in where they fit.
Trauma & memory
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. Research-supported work on traumatic memory, anxiety patterns, and the places your nervous system hasn’t been able to settle.
About EMDR at Middle WayBody-based
Body-based work that includes sensation, breath, and movement alongside talk. Useful when the body knows something before the mind has words for it.
About somatic therapyNervous system
A structured listening-based program developed by Dr. Stephen Porges to support nervous-system regulation. We often run it alongside individual sessions.
About SSPIntimacy & desire
Clinical work on intimacy, desire, identity, and the places sex sits in a person’s life. Held with the same trauma-informed care as the rest of our practice. Often runs alongside individual therapy.
About sex therapyDepth & meaning
An approach combining hypnotherapy, applied shamanism, and mindfulness. We use it for symbolic and meaning-level work, when clients are ready for it.
About Depth HypnosisBrain regulation
A gentle, non-invasive brainwave-training approach. We use it alongside therapy for focus, sleep, nervous-system regulation, and recovery. Sessions run in person at the Brooklyn Heights office.
About neurofeedback“Most of what changes in therapy doesn’t happen in a single insight. It happens slowly, between sessions, in the way you start noticing what you didn’t notice before.”
The format you start in is part of the work.
Ways we work
Most individual work happens weekly. Intensives, structured programs, and monthly sessions are alternatives for clients whose situation or schedule needs something different.
Default
Weekly is the default. This is where most of the work happens over time. The pattern that keeps showing up in your week becomes something you and your therapist can actually work on together. The thought you didn’t want to name out loud. The mood you can’t quite track. Weekly pacing gives those things room to come into view.
Most clients who start with us stay here for as long as the work calls for it.
Start with a consultFormat option
Concentrated work for clients who want to front-load the process or are traveling in from out of town. Often used for EMDR and trauma-focused work. Sessions typically run three to six hours over a day or two.
Learn about intensivesFormat option
Defined programs that pair individual sessions with nervous-system or somatic work, including the Safe & Sound Protocol where it fits.
See structured programsFormat option
A check-in format for clients in a stable phase who want to keep the work current without meeting weekly.
Ask about monthlyGetting started
Here’s what to expect once you reach out. The consult is free, fifteen minutes, and low pressure. A place to say what’s going on and get a thoughtful first read.
Book a free consultation →What sets this work apart
Most people arrive at therapy with a sense that something keeps happening on repeat. It might show up as anxiety, or in the way a relationship goes, or as a quiet stuckness that has been there a long time. Individual therapy at Middle Way is built for the work that goes underneath the symptom without losing track of what actually helps.
A few commitments shape that work:
There isn’t one right way to be in therapy. We pace the work carefully, shape it around your values and history, and stay with the life you’re actually living, not the version of it that looks tidy on paper.
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
Carl RogersA wide range. Anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, life transitions, relationship and attachment patterns, identity and meaning questions, and self-worth work. See the Areas of focus section above for the full list.
It varies. Weekly is the default. Some clients come for a few months around one specific piece of work. Others stay for years, working through different stretches of life. The consult is where we start thinking about what the work might look like for you.
Yes. Several of our clinicians see teens as part of their individual practice. The consult is a good place to match a teen with the right clinician for them. More on teen therapy at Middle Way.
We’ll walk you through the options in the consult. Reach out through our contact page and we’ll answer specific questions about insurance, out-of-network benefits, and session fees.
Where we see clients
Our office is at 15 Monroe Place in Brooklyn Heights, close to Park Slope, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Downtown Brooklyn, and DUMBO. We see clients virtually anywhere in New York State.
Most clients mix in-person and telehealth sessions. The flexibility is often what makes weekly sustainable when life gets full.
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Read more →When you’re ready, or just exploring, we’re here. The consult is fifteen minutes and free. We’ll listen, ask a few questions, and help you decide whether this is what you need right now.