Helen Kyla Buchsbaum

I have 35 + years experience working with children, adolescents and adults. I believe therapy is most effective when you experience your therapist as a safe, accepting person. Initial sessions focus on identifying what prompted you to seek therapy and how you hope therapy will be useful. Therapy becomes a collaborative exploration of obstacles and of ways to become less ‘stuck’. I rely on psychodynamic, developmental and relational approaches to help frame the challenges you face. I also draw on techniques from many approaches to select tools most effective for helping you. Working with children, teens and adults highlights ways early experiences impact emotional growth. For me, this perspective underscores both the immediacy and the context of your concerns. I am humbled by each client’s search for clarity when faced with inadequate road maps for navigating, and offer a safe constructive place to share and manage difficulties. You may be struggling with relationships (friends, significant partners, children, aging parents) situations (school, jobs, home, transitions, trauma, death), and/or difficult emotions including depression, anxiety, grief, shame, and anger. Feeling vulnerable, it’s hard to reach out to an unfamiliar therapist. I look forward to your leap of faith.