Stress therapists in New York City, New York NY
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Colette Pauta
Counselor/Therapist
Stress can take a toll on both your mind and body. I offer practical tools and personalized strategies to help you understand the sources of stress in your life, strengthen healthy boundaries, and promote emotional regulation. Together, we'll work toward balance and resilience so you can manage stress more effectively and feel more present, calm, and capable in daily life.
1 Years Experience
Online in New York City, NY New York (Online Only)
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Maggie McCarthy
Counselor/Therapist, LMSW
Stress is part of the human experience. But when stress causes us to constantly feel tense, exhausted, and afraid, it can be taking up too much of our lives. Through therapy, we can work to understand the origins of your worries, manage overwhelming emotions and thoughts, find relaxation, and learn how to navigate life's challenges from a place of peace.
3 Years Experience
Online in New York City, NY New York (Online Only)
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Michael Nakhla
Psychiatrist, MD
Chronic stress takes a serious toll on mental and physical health, affecting everything from mood and sleep to immune function and relationships. I help clients identify stress sources, develop effective coping strategies, and build resilience to life's inevitable challenges. My approach combines practical stress management techniques with treatment of any underlying anxiety or depression that may be amplifying your stress response.
9 Years Experience
In-Person in New York City, NY
Online in New York City, NY New York
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Erikka Cole
Counselor/Therapist, LMHC-D
Stress is one of those things we're all supposed to just manage, but what happens when you're past the point of manageable? Chronic stress affects your body, your relationships, your sleep, and your sense of self. We help clients slow down enough to understand what's actually driving the overwhelm, and build real tools for responding to life's pressures without burning out.
8 Years Experience
Online in New York City, NY New York (Online Only)
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Dr. Stéphanie Gamache, PhD
Hypnotherapist, PhD
Stress reflects the interaction between emotional life, relational patterns, and the nervous system. My work integrates psychoanalytic reflection with somatic awareness to support greater regulation and resilience. Together, we work toward a more grounded and embodied relationship with responsibility and emotional demand.
7 Years Experience
Online in New York City, NY New York (Online Only)
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Nadira Jackson - TherapyWithDira
Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC
When life feels like it’s pulling you in every direction, stress can take over your body and mind. In our sessions, we’ll identify your stress patterns and learn practical ways to regulate your emotions and nervous system. I’ll help you develop mindful coping tools and healthy boundaries so you can move from constant survival mode to a place of balance and peace.
5 Years Experience
Online in New York City, NY New York (Online Only)
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Dr. Ingrid Solano
Psychologist, PhD
I work with both adults and adolescents on an individual basis. Individual psychotherapy helps clients deal with particular issues, symptoms, and stressors. My goal is to provide a safe, non judgmental space for you to explore who you are, how you relate to others, and what supports you on your journey to become your best self. I lean into, listen, understand, and enhance authentic expression. Together we create a collaborative process of transformation. What that means and what that looks like is different for everyone...
I offer evidence-based therapies from a curious, nonjudgmental philosophy. No matter where you have been, evidence-based therapies focus on changing the now. I strive to help my clients experience the world mindfully, and in accordance with their personal values. Through our work in cultivating an affirming, authentic, and non-judgmental therapeutic relationship, I provide support while we collaboratively deconstruct what is causing distress in your life and preventing you from being your most effective and authentic self. Individual therapy facilitates insight and growth, becoming more effective at actualizing your values, and building more authentic relationships with yourself and with others.
While there are many forms of therapy you can pursue, my expertise is in time-limited, evidence-based Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies (CBT), the Unified Protocol for emotional disorders, and third wave CBT such as Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Mindfulness based interventions. (I do have experience in, and practice, an eclectic arrangement of other modalities as well-- when applicable or specifically requested.) We explore thoughts, beliefs, and understanding, while also prioritizing behavioral processes that focus on your contexts and the functions of how you relate to your internal experiences. CBT is designed to help individuals notice and shift their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in order to get relief from painful emotions such as anxiety and sadness.
Third wave interventions also promote well-being through developing coping skills, personal values, and metacognition that complement traditional CBT interventions. I provide flexible, customizable approaches that look different with each patient. I empower my clients to discover their strength, clarity, creativity, autonomy, resilience, motivation, and confidence in meeting whatever happens next. I provide individualized tools to use in everyday decision-making that will help those changes last. With these modalities I treat individuals who are impacted by depression, anxiety, life transitions, relationship distress, burnout, divorce, loss, uncertainty, stigma, and other life experiences, diagnoses, and stressors. We explore the sources, experiences, and beliefs that impact how you relate with the world and implement change in your life. You are the expert on you, but are you your most effective and content self?
15 Years Experience
In-Person in New York City, NY
Online in New York City, NY New York
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Sara Fraser
Psychologist, PhD
Our world is so stressful and impacts our systems on all levels-bodily, relational, communal, familial. Work to understand the signs and sources of stress and how to navigate those can be very important to shedding the negative implications of navigating toxic systems and environments and how those can come to impair and disable healthy functioning. Mindfulness and mindful self-compassion can particularly inform this work as does right action such boundary setting and bolstering communication.
26 Years Experience
Online in New York City, NY New York (Online Only)
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Shawna Stillwell
Marriage and Family Therapist, IMFT-S
When stress becomes chronic, it stops feeling like a response to circumstances and starts feeling like "just the way things are." This can lead to many other mental and physical health issues, which only perpetuates the cycle of stress. I help clients to get underneath the stress, understanding what's driving it, what its protecting, and how to relate to it differently so it has less power over your daily life.
8 Years Experience
Online in New York City, NY New York (Online Only)
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Christie Roe
Therapist, LMSW
However stress shows up for you in mind, body, and relationships, I offer practical and personalized support that allows you to meet yourself where you are, follow your experience, and develop resources that resonate with how you want to release, repattern, and find balance, inside and out.
2 Years Experience
Online in New York City, NY New York (Online Only)
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Ren Lee
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Life throws curveballs and some of them are hard to dodge or catch. I am here to support you in navigating all the stressors that comes at you, whether they are related to relationships, career, moving, life transitions, illness, or chronic stress.
6 Years Experience
Online in New York City, NY New York (Online Only)
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Stacy King
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
We all live in a fast paced society where hustle culture is valued, but this catches up with the body, psyche and overall sense of well-being. Balance is the most important practice. I help clients find this balance and implement more self care practices.
21 Years Experience
Online in New York City, NY New York (Online Only)
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Reshma Rampersad
Psychologist, Psy.D.
My approach to stress focuses on helping you build resilience, regain balance, and develop healthy coping strategies. Using a blend of mindfulness techniques, cognitive-behavioral tools, and personalized stress management strategies, we work together to identify stressors, shift unhelpful thought patterns, and create a sense of calm and control in your daily life. My goal is to support you in managing stress in a way that feels sustainable and empowering.
7 Years Experience
Online in New York City, NY New York (Online Only)
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Alan Jacobson, Psy.D.
Psychologist, Licensed Psychologist, Nationally Registered Health Service Provider
If you are stressed by home, school, work, or relationships, we'll work together using an integrative approach that taps into the most powerful and effective therapies that can help. The goal is to leave the positive and motivating "stress" in place and lessen the disruptive and negative stress behind. You'll come away from therapy fro stress with a toolkit of coping strategies and stress management techniques.
25 Years Experience
Online in New York City, NY New York (Online Only)
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Anna Urbaniak
Psychologist, PhD
I teach practical tools to manage daily stress, regulate emotions, and increase resilience using mindfulness, ACT, and coping strategies.
15 Years Experience
Online in New York City, NY New York (Online Only)
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Kate E. Stephenson
Life Coach, ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Holistic Life, Career & Executive
Stress is a normal, useful response to life; it’s the survival mechanism that helps us grow, learn and succeed. Distress is the negative impact of prolonged, severe, and unmanaged stress. Together we will co-create tools to abate and dispel your distress while capitalizing on good stress. I am NOT offering therapy—I leave the work of diagnosis and treatment of medical issues to medical professionals. However, coaching can absolutely complement and supplement therapy work; our work together will be therapeutic without being therapy. Taking a 5Ps approach to stress management, together we can explore your "perception" of your current stressors; gain "perspective" on the origins and instigators of your stress and on how you’d prefer to feel in the future; "prioritize" manageable and sustainable steps toward this future; ensure they are aligned with your professional and personal "purpose"; and put into "practice" the tools and behaviors to get you to that positive stress level.
7 Years Experience
Online in New York City, NY New York (Online Only)
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Chrissie Chua- Ly van manh
Counselor/Therapist, LMHC-D, LPC
I work with clients experiencing high levels of stress, overwhelm, and burnout- often individuals who are managing demanding careers, family responsibilities, and internal pressure to keep everything together. Stress can build gradually over time or show up suddenly during periods of transition, leaving people feeling emotionally drained, anxious, irritable, or disconnected from themselves.
Many of the clients I work with are high-functioning and outwardly capable, yet internally struggling with exhaustion, pressure, and difficulty slowing down. Stress can begin to affect sleep, relationships, concentration, and overall sense of wellbeing, making it harder to feel present or grounded in daily life.
In therapy, we work together to understand both the external demands and internal patterns that contribute to stress. This includes exploring perfectionism, people-pleasing, over-responsibility, and difficulty setting boundaries, as well as identifying what your mind and body need in order to feel more regulated and supported.
I integrate practical coping tools with deeper emotional insight, helping clients not only manage stress in the moment but also shift long-standing patterns that keep them stuck in cycles of overwhelm. My goal is to help you feel more balanced, resourced, and able to move through life with greater ease, clarity, and self-compassion.
10 Years Experience
Online in New York City, NY New York (Online Only)
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Staci Des Rault
Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC. M.Div
I have over 18 years of experience in counseling for stress management.
14 Years Experience
Online in New York City, NY New York (Online Only)
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Dr. Erica Gardner-Schuster
Psychologist, PhD
Are you struggling with life stressors? If so, Group Therapy may help.
16 Years Experience
Online in New York City, NY New York (Online Only)
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Avena Psychological Services
Psychologist, PsyD, PhD, LCSW, LMHC, LMSW, MHC-LP
At Avena Psychological Services, we recognize that stress can feel overwhelming and all-consuming, affecting your daily life and overall well-being. Our approach is designed to help you regain balance and find relief from the pressures you face. By combining practical strategies with empathetic support, our therapists provide safe and understanding spaces where you can explore the sources of your stress and develop effective coping techniques. Through evidence-based methods like Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), we’ll work together to help you manage your stress, build resilience, and create a more harmonious life. Whether you’re dealing with work pressures, personal challenges, or just the demands of daily living, we’re here to support you in finding calm amidst the chaos and embracing a more peaceful, fulfilling life.
11 Years Experience
Online in New York City, NY New York (Online Only)
New York City has the largest and most diverse therapy community in the world, with practitioners representing virtually every therapeutic modality, cultural background, and specialty area. The city's pace, density, and cost of living generate pervasive anxiety and burnout, while its diverse boroughs mean therapists fluent in dozens of languages serve communities from every corner of the globe. Columbia University Irving Medical Center, NYU Langone Health, and Weill Cornell Medicine anchor an extensive academic mental health infrastructure, supplemented by thousands of independent practitioners across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island. New York's therapy culture is deeply embedded — many residents maintain years-long therapeutic relationships and consider finding the right therapist one of the more important decisions they make.
Stress therapists in New York City, New York Statistics
Stress therapists in New York City, New York average 15 years of experience and charge around $194 per session. 97% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (64%), Psychodynamic Therapy (43%), and Behavioral Therapy (31%).
Average years in practice
15 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$194
Accept insurance
38%
Offer sliding scale
57%
Gender ID
| 63% |
Female |
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| 27% |
Male |
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| 6% |
Non-Binary |
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| 4% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 51% |
In Person and Online |
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| 46% |
Online Only |
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| 3% |
In Person Only |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 64% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 43% | Psychodynamic Therapy |
| 31% | Behavioral Therapy |
| 31% | Integrative Therapy |
| 31% | Family Systems Therapy |
| 31% | Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) |
| 30% | Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) |
Ages Served
| 99% | Adult |
| 68% | Young Adult |
| 48% | Teen |
| 47% | Senior |
| 23% | Children |
Client Focus
| 61% | Women |
| 46% | LGBTQ+ |
| 43% | Men |
| 32% | Black / African American |
| 29% | Jewish |