Our Services

Our practice specializes in providing talk therapy primarily from an integrative perspective with strong Acceptance and Commitment features. We mostly see people in person at our office in Union Square and also have some virtual appointments too. This hybrid model allows us the flexibility to reach clients’ ever evolving needs and schedules.

In therapy, we utilize a variety of psychotherapeutic techniques in order to create an atmosphere of safety and security. Through a solid therapeutic alliance, clients often feel comfortable expressing and sharing their authentic, vulberable, and genuine experiences. We provide services to a wide range of individuals of all races, ethnicities, religions, and sexual orientations.

Our practice has created a niche in college counseling (both undergraduate and graduate levels). For over 13 years, we have served the NYU community and accept the Wellfleet student insurance. Dr. Julie Kupfer is an independent contractor at Juilliard’s Counseling and Wellness Services  and we welcome students from a variety of New York schools. 

We are well versed in the life transitions, adjustments, and challenges that students currently face. Specializing in this population allows us to treat a wide variety of clinical disorders that include but are not limited to the following: anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, grief, family distress, OCD, trauma, eating concerns, and substance use.

We are confident in providing Exposure and Response Prevention
(ERP), which is the gold standard of treatment for Obsessive and Compulsive Disorder. We enhance ERP with ACT infused concepts that blend beautifully to creative exposures in conjunction with our clients. 

Via constant collaboration,  we tailor each exposure program to the unique client while providing the safety and empowerment that sustains this work. Clients are able to learn, practice, and implement the necessary skills to allow their minds to have thoughts and feelings while making purposeful and values congruent choices. 

EMDR is an empirically validated treatment that has been proven to soften and expand our perspective on experienced trauma among other disorders. By being present in the safety of the therapeutic environment, clients are guided to resurrect challenging/traumatic material to work though, honor, and understand more deeply. 

EMDR allows for healing in areas where clients often find themselves stuck and can enhance ones therapeutic journey significantly. By being with their emotional distress in a specific and open manner, the person is able to adaptively heal in ways that felt previously unaccessible. Clients who are in individual therapy with another provider are still welcomed to reach out and utilize EMDR to supplement their current treatment. 

We believe that intimacy and connection are some of the strongest values we can hold as humans and that relationships are hard. Training with Sue Johnson to learn Emotion Focused Couples Therapy (EFT), allows us to identify specific patterns and traps couples/families tend to fall into.

We utilize this knowledge to normalize, build awareness, and create more opportunities for choice that are congruent with how people want to show up in their relationships. Through exploration of emotions, we witness people finding courage within to express themselves and communicate their feelings to others.

Being a female owned and supported business, we feel women’s health deserves the utmost care and attention. We pride ourselves on providing a comprehensive perspective on women’s health that includes fertility and family building concerns. By training at the Seleni Institute, we have deepened our awareness and understanding of miscarriages, grief, and postpartum concerns.

We also nurture those who are struggling with perinatal mood and anxiety disorders and often partner with Spring OBGYN to provide clients with multidisciplinary support. 

Within our practice, we strongly believe in a lifelong learning model and are committed to ongoing supervision and education. Dr. Kupfer provides weekly individual and group supervision and also supervises first year doctoral students at the New School.

We welcome constant collaboration with other treatment providers and multidisciplinary teams.