Our Practice
Growth-focused therapy that actually works
You might look like you’re holding it all together — showing up for everyone else, chasing perfection, staying strong no matter what — but underneath, you’re overwhelmed, exhausted, and craving real change.
Maybe the pressure to meet everyone’s expectations is wearing you down. Maybe old wounds keep resurfacing when you least expect it. Maybe your relationships keep making you feel undervalued and taken for granted. Whatever’s bringing you here, you don’t have to figure it out alone.
Our goal isn’t just to help you feel better now — it’s to equip you with the insight, skills, and confidence to continue growing and healing long after therapy ends.
We’ve got you. You’re in good hands.
Our Treatments
We offer a wide range of evidence-based treatments, which we use dynamically and flexibly to meet our clients’ therapeutic needs.
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Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) combines the use of low-dose ketamine with psychotherapy to support deep emotional healing and expanded states of consciousness. Grounded in both emerging neuroscience and psychotherapeutic principles, KAP facilitates access to non-ordinary states that can help clients process trauma, alleviate depression, and unlock stuck patterns.
KAP is particularly effective for individuals experiencing treatment-resistant depression, PTSD, chronic anxiety, and existential distress. The ketamine experience often softens psychological defenses, allowing clients to access core emotions, reframe limiting narratives, and connect with a sense of inner wholeness. In a safe, supportive therapeutic environment, clients are guided to integrate their experiences, fostering lasting shifts in mood, perspective, and emotional resilience.
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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a structured, evidence-based therapy designed to help individuals process and heal from traumatic memories. Developed by Dr. Francine Shapiro, EMDR uses bilateral stimulation — typically in the form of guided eye movements — to support the brain’s natural ability to resolve and integrate distressing experiences.
EMDR is especially beneficial for those suffering from PTSD, complex trauma, phobias, and anxiety-related disorders. By reprocessing traumatic memories in a safe and controlled setting, clients are able to reduce the emotional charge of past experiences, shift negative beliefs, and restore a sense of safety and empowerment. EMDR offers a powerful, non-invasive path toward psychological healing, helping individuals reclaim their lives from the impact of trauma.
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Attachment-based therapy is rooted in the understanding of how early attachment experiences shape emotional development and interpersonal relationships throughout life.
This approach is particularly useful for patients struggling with issues related to attachment, including difficulties forming and maintaining healthy relationships, fear of abandonment, and unresolved childhood trauma. By exploring past attachment experiences and their impact on present-day functioning, individuals can develop greater self-awareness and experience more fulfilling connections with others. Attachment-based therapy offers a supportive and empathetic space for clients to heal relational wounds, fostering a sense of security and trust in themselves and their relationships.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a widely practiced therapeutic approach that focuses on identifying and changing negative thought patterns and behaviors. It operates on the principle that our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are interconnected, and by altering our thinking, we can positively influence our emotions and actions.
CBT is particularly beneficial for patients dealing with anxiety, depression, phobias, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It equips individuals with practical skills to challenge irrational beliefs, manage distressing emotions, and develop healthier coping strategies. CBT empowers patients to take an active role in their recovery, offering structured techniques and exercises to promote lasting change and improve overall well-being.
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a specialized form of cognitive-behavioral therapy designed to help individuals who struggle with intense emotions and difficulties in managing them. Originally developed by Dr. Marsha Linehan, DBT integrates elements of mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness skills training.
DBT is particularly beneficial for patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and other complex mental health conditions characterized by emotional dysregulation, impulsivity, self-harm behaviors, and unstable relationships. By learning practical coping strategies and interpersonal skills, individuals can enhance their emotional resilience, reduce self-destructive behaviors, and improve their quality of life. DBT provides a structured framework for fostering acceptance, validation, and change, empowering patients to build a life worth living.
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Internal Family Systems (IFS) views the mind as composed of different "parts," each with its own unique perspective, emotions, and motivations. Developed by Richard Schwartz, IFS aims to help individuals understand and harmonize these parts, promoting internal balance and healing.
This approach can be particularly beneficial for patients struggling with complex emotional issues, trauma, or interpersonal conflicts. It provides a framework for exploring and reconciling conflicting feelings, beliefs, and behaviors, fostering self-awareness, self-compassion, and integration. By working with their internal system of parts, clients can develop greater emotional resilience, authenticity, and inner peace.
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The Gottman Method for Couples’ Therapy, developed by Drs. John and Julie Gottman, offers a structured approach to enhancing relationships based on decades of research into what makes relationships succeed or languish. It provides support for couples navigating major life transitions, recovering from infidelity, or seeking to reignite the passion and romance in their relationship. Overall, the Gottman Method offers practical tools and strategies to help couples build resilience, understanding, and intimacy in their partnership.
This approach is particularly beneficial for couples experiencing communication difficulties, frequent conflicts, or a desire to deepen their emotional connection. It is also helpful for pre-marital counseling, aiding couples in establishing a strong foundation for their marriage.
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Somatic Experiencing (SE) and Polyvagal Therapy emphasize the connection between mind and body in healing trauma. Developed by Dr. Peter Levine and influenced by Dr. Stephen Porges' Polyvagal Theory, these modalities focus on releasing stored trauma energy from the body and restoring nervous system regulation.
SE and Polyvagal Therapy are particularly effective for patients struggling with unresolved trauma, including but not limited to PTSD, developmental trauma, and chronic stress. By gently exploring bodily sensations and tracking autonomic nervous system responses, individuals can gradually discharge the overwhelming energy trapped in their bodies from past traumatic events. These approaches offer a safe and supportive space for clients to reconnect with their innate resilience, restore a sense of safety, and cultivate greater well-being, empowering them to live more fully in the present.
Our Values
We believe that our patients are capable of incredible things.
We strive to help them actualize their potential with care, enthusiasm, and evidence-based support. Below are the values that shape our work.
COLLABORATION
We believe in treating a person as a whole. Whenever possible, we connect with other providers whose expertise may help improve our clients’ treatment outcomes.
Transparency
We believe that knowledge is power. We want our clients to understand the methods we’re using and why.
Evidence-based Practices
We believe that our clients’ time, energy and resources are valuable and that our methods must be based in the latest science.
Non-pathologizing
We believe that our clients are more than a diagnosis or a cluster of symptoms. We work to get to know and celebrate all of you.
culturally competent
We believe in approaching our clients’ racial, ethnic, religious and cultural identities from a place of curiosity, with a desire to understand how these facets of their lived experience have shaped who they are and how they show up.
accountability
We believe in accountability between therapist and client. We understand and acknowledge that therapists can get it wrong sometimes. We regularly solicit feedback about our work and enthusiastically welcome opportunities for growth, improvement and repair.
lgbtqia affirming
We create an environment of safety around the expression and exploration of our clients’ sexual and gender identities.
strength-based
We believe our clients have their own inner healing capacity and that our role is to guide them in accessing it through supportive and strengths-based approaches.
sex-positive
We believe in honoring love, sex and relationships of all kinds. We have experience working with clients in a wide range of relationship types (open, polyamorous relationships, monogamous, etc.) and whose relationships to sex vary widely.
relatability and humor
We believe that much of the medicine of therapy is in the connection between therapist and client. Whenever clinically appropriate, we strive to bring ourSelves, our humor and some lightness into the work.
Meet the Team
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Janine Cheng, LCSW
Founder + Clinical Director
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Joy Belamarich, LCSW
Staff Therapist
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Natalie Dupre, LMSW
Staff Therapist
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Marissa Kirshenbaum, LMSW
Staff Therapist
Ready to move forward with confidence and clarity?
If you’re ready to embark on your mental health journey, let us help. We’d love to be a part of your new course as you build strength and resilience for every step forward.