Jen Lansky, MS MHC

My clients are exploring who they are and who they want to be. Maybe you’re stuck in patterns that are no longer serving you or realizing that you’d like the voice in your head to be a whole lot nicer. In all the transitions and rhythms of selfhood, my clients are discovering their place in the world and how to make it a gentler, kinder, and safer space by learning to ask for what they need, get rid of what they don’t, and be here now.

I believe our expectations of love and ourselves are formed by our early relationships. We can react or respond to past hurts by letting them change us for the worse or strengthen us. Let’s figure out how your past has influenced your present, for good and for bad, learn the lessons you were meant to learn, and find the tools to be your best and strongest self in the future.

Sometimes anxiety becomes your natural state; it begins to feel productive, like when you worry, you’re getting something done. And then you notice that it gets uncomfortable if you stop. My job as your therapist is to help you explore that discomfort to see what it’s made of so that you can begin to feel safe in it. That’s the therapeutic process. Without judgement and with empathy, humor, and genuineness, I’ll meet you where you are and create a safe space in which you can figure out where you want to go and who you want to be when you get there.

I’ve worked with clients of all ages, individuals, couples, and families. I’ve worked with clients who are dealing with their own cancer or that of a loved one, in the moment or years after the fact, when it felt safer to process from a distance. I have intimate experience of parental loss, divorce and blended families, and anxiety and panic attacks.

I believe in the importance of our relationship as we work together to explore your specific needs and expectations and to develop the language with which you can ask for what you need and want, both from yourself and from those with whom you are in relationship. That includes me. Therapy can be hard. No question. My job is to sit with you with patience and curiosity to explore and look for answers to the questions you keep asking yourself and make your inner narrative a kinder, more constructive conversation and create a safer space inside yourself.

I am currently providing in-person, telehealth, and walk-and-walk appointments.

Sessions for individuals, couples, friends, and families $125/53 minutes

Contact Jen at (845) 516-4016 or therapybarnrhinebeck@gmail.com