Online Psychotherapy & Clinical Consulting
Online Therapy in New York for Anxiety, Trauma, Stress & Relationships
Feel steadier in your body. Clearer in your mind. More connected in your life.
About Karuṇā Psychotherapy & Consulting
Our Approach
Our Experience
Our Experience
At Karuṇā Psychotherapy, we help adults and couples reconnect with their core self: the aspect of yourself that knows what’s true, what matters, and what you need. Our approach is neuroscience-informed and grounded in mind–body and depth psychology. We integrate attachment and relational therapy with nervous system regulation and whole-pe
At Karuṇā Psychotherapy, we help adults and couples reconnect with their core self: the aspect of yourself that knows what’s true, what matters, and what you need. Our approach is neuroscience-informed and grounded in mind–body and depth psychology. We integrate attachment and relational therapy with nervous system regulation and whole-person healing. Together, we cultivate mindful awareness, insight, and compassionate courage so you can move through life with more ease, steadiness, and intention. We collaborate with you to clarify your goals and build sustainable change.
Our Experience
Our Experience
Our Experience
Our team of licensed psychotherapists provides compassionate, skilled support for individuals navigating anxiety, depression, ADHD, BPD, complex trauma, PTSD, sense of self and identity exploration, life transitions, attachment, and relationship challenges.
Our Philosophy
Our Experience
Our Philosophy
We believe every person has the capacity to grow, heal, and change. Therapy can help you access that potential by offering a supportive space to explore what you’re thinking, feeling, and carrying without judgment. We meet you with compassion, curiosity, and respect, so you can build insight, strengthen self-trust, and move forward in a way that feels aligned with who you are.
Our Services
Our Experience
Our Philosophy
We offer a range of services to support your unique needs, including individual therapy, couples therapy, family therapy, and group therapy. We also provide secure online therapy (telehealth), making it easier to access care —saving travel time, increasing scheduling flexibility, and allowing you to stay consistent even when life is busy or unpredictable.
What We Do
EVIDENCE BASED THERAPY DRAWN FROM CUTTING EDGE SCIENCE
At Karuna, we help adults and couples reconnect with their core self: the aspect of yourself that knows what’s true, what matters, and what you need. Together, we cultivate mindful awareness and compassionate courage so you can move through life with more ease, steadiness, and intention. Our approach is neuroscience-informed and mind–body grounded, integrating attachment and relational therapy with nervous system regulation and whole-person healing.
Psychodynamic & Compassion-Focused Approaches
I focus on assisting individuals to become aware of their inner strengths and wisdom while processing difficult emotions and situations. We achieve this by providing a neutral safe place, actively listening to their concerns, and customizing a treatment plan that uses psychodynamic and compassion-focused approaches such as mindfulness, acceptance, equanimity, and kindness.
Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT)
Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) has developed from evolutionary, neurological, and psychological science. Although rooted in modern science, CFT also draws on Buddhist psychology. CFT has offered great results for individuals facing trauma, depression, anxiety, relationship issues, and internal conflicts.
Mentalization-Based Therapy (MBT)
Do you ever doubt what you really think, feel, or believe? Or do you feel uneasy around others and fear they dislike you or think the worst of you?
The art of 'thinking about thinking' is known as mentalization. As a form of psychodynamic psychotherapy, mentalization-based therapy focuses on the patient's ability to understand how actions are influenced by mental states.
If you have difficulties mentalizing, it's likely that you frequently struggle to understand your thoughts and feelings and that you occasionally make rash decisions that could frustrate both yourself and other people. Or You might occasionally assume the worst about other people, which can make you feel depressed and lonely. Through mentalization-based therapy, you can think more accurately and clearly about others and yourself, which will help you make better decisions and strengthen your relationships. It is a form of therapy that can be used by individuals, groups, or entire families, and it has positive effects on people of all ages, including children.
Mentalization-based therapy can help with the following:
- Anger issues
- Attachment disorders
- Borderline personality disorder (BPD)
- Depression
- Other personality disorders
- Trauma Relationship and trust problems
- Self-harm
Attachment-Based Therapy
Attachment-based therapy is a type of psychodynamic therapy that focuses on the thoughts, feelings, communications, behaviors, and interpersonal interactions that patients have learned to suppress and avoid or amplify and overemphasize as a result of early attachment experiences.
An attachment approach to therapy is characterized by two central processes.
The first is the development of a more open and secure relationship between the therapist and the patient. The single most powerful element identified by psychotherapy research for producing a good therapeutic outcome is the quality of the therapeutic relationship. Based on research with security-engendering mothers, attachment theory has a unique understanding of the characteristics of a security-engendering relationship. A key component of therapy is the development of a secure, responsive, and open relationship centered on the patient's difficult and worrisome issues. It is an effective technique because it encourages the patient's progressive developmental processes.
The second central process in attachment-based therapy is the facilitation and strengthening of adaptive capacities by addressing the emotions and communications that the patient has learned to suppress or overemphasize in early attachment relationships.
These two processes are central to attachment-based therapy: the establishment of a secure base relationship and the reclaiming of lost capacities. Understanding exactly what patients cannot safely think, feel, perceive, communicate, or do allows them to reshape these capacities.
As a result of attachment-based psychotherapy, patients discover new ways to behave in relationships as well as new approaches to work and exploration. Their early and constrained internal working model of self and others begins to shift, becoming more open and flexible, allowing for better intimate relationships and more effective action in the world.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Internal family systems (IFS) therapy is a powerful, evidence-based method of psychotherapy. Dr. Kaye uses internal family systems to treat a wide variety of mental health concerns, including anxiety, depression, and trauma.
Internal family systems therapy helps improve your thinking by addressing the mind's multiple views. It aids healing by decreasing internal conflict, which may keep you stuck rather than moving forward.
Internal family systems therapy can help if you've ever experienced conflicting thoughts, such as wanting to do a certain activity but being afraid it might lead to disappointment or jeopardize your security. Internal conflict might paralyze you and cause you to do nothing. IFS therapy, on the other hand, can teach you how to cope with your emotional paralysis.