Our Approach
We help our clients break free from unhelpful cycles, develop clarity on their relationships, and lead more conscious, free, and fulfilling lives.
Depth
Our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are often influenced by unconscious processes. As Psychoanalysts and psychodynamic therapists, we specialize in uncovering these hidden dynamics, helping you understand the root causes of your challenges. This deep exploration can lead to transformative insights and lasting change.
Personalization
We are different than other approaches that utilize "tools" or manualized strategies or assign worksheets as homework. Instead, we use an approach tailored to your unique experiences and history. Rather than applying a one-size fits all approach, we work collaboratively with you to navigate your personal narrative, fostering a sense of agency and empowerment in your therapeutic process.
Long term perspective and results
While some therapies focus on symptom relief, our approach aims for deeper, long-lasting change. By addressing underlying issues and patterns, you’re not just alleviating symptoms; you’re cultivating a richer understanding of yourself that can enhance your overall well-being.
Our Values
I have met with April for several months virtually and she has been extremely helpful in helping me manage and navigate some of the toughest few months of my life. She is insightful, thoughtful, asks probing questions, and provides feedback to really help you take a step back and begin to understand where your feelings are rooted. Unlike other therapists I have tried in the past, April does not jump to conclusions or force conversations certain ways, which makes it very comfortable to talk about anything currently on my mind.
— zocdoc review
Our Psychotherapists
April Rohr is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, psychotherapist, and practice founder, who treats adult individuals. She specializes in the treatment of depression and other mood disorders, addictions, self esteem, as well as difficulties with life transitions and relationships.
April has worked in community mental health, harm reduction, and private practice settings. She has
postgraduate training from the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity in NYC, and the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Study, where she studied dissociative processes, disturbances in self, and substance/process addictions related to food and sex. She is currently a candidate in four year psychoanalytic training at IPSS in NYC, and has also worked as a psychotherapist consultant for television and media.
April Rohr, LCSW
April Rohr, LCSW
Practice Director
psychoTherapist
Practice Director
Psychotherapist
Psychoanalysis
and Psychodynamic Therapy
What is Psychoanalytic Therapy or psychoanalysis?
Suffering is an inescapable part of life, and its causes can often feel unclear or difficult to resolve. Psychoanalytic therapy helps uncover unconscious patterns driving suffering and inner conflict while helping you restore your agency, personal wisdom, and ability to enjoy your own life.
While the term "unconscious" can have an enigmatic connotation, it's less mysterious than it may seem. It's the part of your mind that holds thoughts, feelings, and memories you’re not aware of but that still influence your behavior and emotion. A psychoanalytic approach can help connect different parts of your mind (including unconscious processes) and link past experiences to the present.
Whatever it is that you're struggling with, identifying ways to interrupt obscured psychological patterns can help you break free from self-limiting cycles, enhance your ability to enjoy your own subjectivity, and restore feelings of agency and freedom in your life.
We offer both psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy. Contact us or schedule a free consultation to learn more.
Is Psychoanalytic Therapy Right for me?
Psychoanalytic therapy is a depth-oriented talk therapy. If you're seeking to understand your mind on a deeper level and create lasting change, a psychoanalytic approach may be for you. Some of the unique benefits of this approach include:
- deep insight and greater capacity for self-reflection: uncover the roots of emotional, psychological, or behavioral issues (psychoanalytic therapists are unique in that they are trained to listen for unconscious patterns)
- improvements in personal agency and freedom
- enrichment: a psychoanalytic approach helps elaborate your internal landscape, and creates a new way of experiencing your own reality
- long term change: psychoanalytic approaches offer profound changes in personality and emotional regulation, not just short-term symptom relief
- improvements in relationships and relational functioning: interventions around attachment and intersubjective processes/patterns helps individuals connect more deeply in their relationships, improve their communication, and experience more satisfying, harmonious relationships
The short answer- "Yes!"
Psychoanalysis and psychodynamic treatment are evidence supported treatments with significant empirical evidence supporting their efficacy. For example, Shedler (2010), in his review of numerous meta-analyses, found that the the positive outcomes of psychodynamic therapy are comparable to other established treatments, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), a conclusion corroborated by Leichsenring, F., & Rabung, S. (2008) as well as Høglend, P., et al. (2011).
In addition, there is evidence supporting the unique benefits of psychodynamic therapies, including evidence that it is superior than other treatments in terms of its long term benefits over mere symptom reduction, as well as unique ability to confer emotional and relational benefits in treatment (Shedler,2010).
Does Psychoanalytic therapy actually "work"?
In-person
virtual
Psychotherapy
for
Depression
Anxiety
Addictions
Self- Esteem
Dating
Men
“Visiting April is always a highlight of my week. She is disarming and thoughtful in her approach to conversation.”
— Zocdoc review
“She is insightful, thoughtful, asks probing questions, and provides feedback to really help you take a step back and begin to understand where your feelings are rooted.
— zocdoc review
