Specialized mental health services in NYC and virtually for adults, families, and children navigating grief and loss, life transitions, and emotional challenges.
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Whether you’ve been impacted by loss, are concerned about your child’s development, or you’re seeking to better manage your stressors to maximize your sense of enjoyment and fulfillment, you deserve to have professional support that is individually tailored to meet your specific needs. Our Manhattan-based team of clinicians offer in-person and telehealth therapy across New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
our clients are:
Children and adults impacted by Grief following the loss of a parent, sibling, or partner
adolescents experiencing anxiety, adhd, depression/mood disorders, & social challenges
High achieving men and women seeking to better manage their stress
College age and young adults navigating transition to adulthood
You are able to reflect on your loss and the ways that it shapes your ongoing perspectives and values, and you can stay connected to your person who died through memory without feeling overcome by emotion. You feel engaged in your personal and professional pursuits and hopeful about your future.
Experiencing the loss of a loved one can disrupt the very foundation of your life.
And while being bereaved is a challenging and painful experience, we believe that every person has the capacity and resiliency to adapt to loss over time. This includes you.
Through our adaptive approach of grief therapy, our work together will enable you to:
→ Accept the reality of the loss
→ Establish a new, but ongoing relationship to the person who has died
→ Re-engage in life with restored hope
Imagine a version of your life where you no longer feel weighed down by your grief. It is still a part of who you are, but it isn’t at the forefront of your day to day feelings and interactions.
Dr. Wolfson completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University's Center for Prolonged Grief, where he trained in Prolonged Grief Treatment (PGT), and remains an adjunct researcher and trainer. PGT is one of the most effective, research-supported approaches to grief counseling available today, and the underlying principles of how individuals adapt to grief provide the underpinnings for the way the wolfson therapy team supports grieving children and adults.
WE will help guide you towards processing your grief and move towards integrating your experience into your ongoing life.
You will deepen your understanding of your grief and the way you relate to it, all in the context of a safe and supportive therapeutic relationship.
Many people come to therapy to help them develop the strategies to relate in a different way to their stressors and challenges. You might be noticing an increase in your anxiety, a lower mood, or lack of fulfillment in your career or relationships.
Our team has the breadth of experience to meet your individual needs. Our expertise includes anxiety, depression, executive functioning challenges, and more, so you can feel confident that you are getting the unique treatment approach best suited to you.
Whether you are facing a big transition or seeking a deeper satisfaction in your day to day life, we want to help you get in touch with your core values and feelings so you can thrive more fully and freely.
Growth can take many shapes. We will draw on an array of frameworks in our individual work together to help you get the most out of your experience in therapy.
Our approach integrates relational and evidence-based behavioral therapies to help you understand your emotions, relationships, and patterns in a deeper way. Our frameworks and professional training include:
→ Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)
→ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
→ Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Trauma-Focused CBT
→ Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
→ Internal Family Systems (IFS)
→ Mindfulness and Somatic Therapy
→ prolonged grief treatment (pgt)
We will match you with a therapist who has the ability to connect meaningfully with your child, and offer support and guidance to you as well.
Whether you have a teen struggling socially, or a child who is being impacted by behavioral challenges, we can help.
Let us partner with your family so we give you the tools needed to flourish as they grow.
We work with children experiencing a broad range of social-emotional difficulties including anxiety, depression, ADHD and executive functioning challenges. We will identify your child’s unique strengths and growing edges and utilize strategies from frameworks including:
Growing up invariably has its challenges. As parents, Wolfson Therapy’s founders know how deeply you want your children to be successful across their social, emotional, and academic worlds.
Our approach integrates relational and evidence-based behavioral therapies to help you and your child understand their emotions in a deeper way and gain skills to improve their relationships and overall functioning. Our frameworks and professional training include specialization in:
→ Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Trauma-Focused CBT
→ Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS)
→ Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP)
→ Executive Functioning Coaching
→ multidimensional grief theory and The dual process model of grief
→ Social Skills Training (SST)
Run by Dr. Dan Wolfson, Shared Grief provides a space for men and women navigating the intersection of grief and adulthood to come together and connect over their experience of loss of a parent, sibling, or partner.
With a strong emphasis on building a sense of community, to help members move through the process of grief with others who intimately know what you're experiencing.
The group runs in 4 month cycles, meeting every other week, and focuses on supporting members adaptation to loss through three pillars:
→ Normalization and acceptance of grief-related emotions
→ Maintaining connection to the person who has died
→ Restorative processing of members individual goals and aspirations.
Shared Grief Group: A therapist-led grief support group for adults in their 20s–40s navigating the loss of a parent, sibling, or partner.
Grief can be deeply isolating.
But connection and normalization through shared experience can be profoundly healing.
We want to hear from you to better understand your goals, what has or hasn’t worked for you in the past, and why are you reaching out at this moment in time. From there, we’ll set up an initial session, to begin to build our relationship and deepen our understanding of what it feels like to work together and the outcomes we are striving for.
Throughout our partnership, we will proactively check-in to make sure that you feel that you are continuing to feel the benefit of our shared time. This will mean something different to everyone, but all of our work is united by a common thread:
