Intersubjective Therapists in Edison, NJ

Voted "Best Therapist," Dr. Dana Spada PhD, LCSW Psychotherapy offers therapy services in a beautiful Colts Neck location to adults, teens, children, individuals, couples and families. Her practice philosophy is holistic and evidence based. Her work is always informed and driven by her clients. Dr. Spada creates an emotionally safe space for her clients to dive into their experience, process and make connections that can transform and heal their lives. She supports her clients in bringing their unconscious mind into consciousness. This can ultimately be life changing and completely transformational. This doctor is passionate about the work she does and feels it is an absolute gift to be a part of her clients colorful therapeutic journeys. After a session with Dr. Spada you may experience a sense of feel calm and clarity. Dr. Spada treats clients that are just looking for personal growth as well those struggling with depression, anxiety, PTSD, ADHD, addiction, eating disorders, marriage discord, relationship issues, suicide ideation, postpartum, grief, LGBT issues and more.

I am a dedicated, perceptive and highly competent clinician with 33 years postgraduate experience who will work empathically and interactively with you to provide a Relational analytic experience which will effect profound growth and change in your relationships with yourself and with others.

I work with individuals and couples who are wanting to find more connection, a deeper sense of meaning, and find their way out of the relational and internal doldrums. I am not here to "fix you" but instead, to help you become to more alive to your experience.

Psychotherapy is most effective when two people (therapist and client) work together to develop a type of therapeutic relationship that not only seeks to make sense of unfolding dynamics but also provides a safe place from which to explore both the known and unknown. In other words, psychotherapy or counseling should offer a meaningful experience, offering new ways of being, relating, and experiencing. Lasting change becomes possible when we are able to find and apply new ways of thinking and feeling about ourselves and others - new ways of relating or responding to the world in which we live and engage.

I believe in the transformative power of psychotherapy. The therapy I practice is grounded in contemporary psychoanalysis, an approach that’s curious about your inner world and attuned to unconscious patterns that shape how you think, feel, and relate to other people. This kind of therapy not only reduces symptoms; it helps you understand yourself on a deeper level, creating lasting change in how you experience yourself and how you show up in your relationships.

Edison is a Middlesex County township named for Thomas Edison, who established his famous Menlo Park laboratory here, and has become home to one of the largest South Asian-American communities in the United States, with a large Indian-American and Indian immigrant population concentrated particularly in the Oak Tree Road corridor, creating a distinctively South Asian cultural character and specific mental health dynamics. The mental health landscape is shaped significantly by the experiences of a highly educated, professional South Asian community navigating intergenerational family expectations, immigration adjustment, mental health stigma within South Asian cultural norms, and the challenges of bicultural identity. A growing number of South Asian mental health practitioners serve the community alongside broader general practice. Common therapy concerns include South Asian family expectations and intergenerational conflict, immigration and acculturation stress, mental health stigma, relationship and marriage pressures, anxiety, and the complex identity navigation of Indian-American and desi identity in suburban New Jersey.

Gender ID

	64%	Female
	36%	Male

Session Type

	73%	In Person and Online
	27%	Online Only

Top Specialties

73%	Depression
64%	Loss or Grief
64%	Relationship and Marriage Counseling
64%	Trauma and PTSD
55%	Anxiety or Fears
55%	Codependency
55%	Men’s Issues

Ages Served

100%	Adult
73%	Young Adult
64%	Senior
27%	Children
27%	Teen

Client Focus

55%	Women
45%	LGBTQ+
36%	Hispanic / Latino
36%	Men
27%	Black / African American

Intersubjective therapists in Edison, NJ

Dr. Dana Spada

Mona Lee Yousef

Kate Dufek

Dr. Sarah Pouliot

Sam Naimi

Intersubjective Therapy therapists in Edison, NJ Statistics

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