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THERAPY JOURNEY

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I’M CARYN

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Caryn Sherbet, LMSW Therapist Licensed in New York,

Hello and welcome! Therapy is a place to uncover who we are in hopes of moving toward the life we desire. We often assume that we “know ourselves” until some experience calls forth a part of us that we didn’t know existed. These experiences can be scary, overwhelming, and, if handled with care, deliciously transformative. Guiding clients as they encounter their own “opacity” (or that which is psychically Other), is work that I am honored to do.

I specialize in helping clients navigate OCD, existential anxiety, and sexual difficulties — and often the intersection of all three. For those grappling with these conditions, the world (including their own brains and bodies) can feel like a terrifying, dangerous place. Clients often come to me in states of chronic avoidance or shut down, earnestly seeking change but unsure of where to start.

Using therapies like Internal Family Systems (IFS), Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), and psychodynamic therapy, I teach clients how to get in touch with their Big Feelings without being swallowed by them. Learning to approach feelings with curiosity instead of avoidance allows us to make meaning of, and ultimately change, deeply held fears and beliefs that limit our lives. We are not meant to hold the enormity of human emotion alone—I’m extremely grateful to walk alongside clients as they confront their own vulnerabilities and work to be transformed by them.

MY ROLE AS A THERAPIST IS

to alchemize your ability to encounter your own opacity

… and be transformed by it

Licensed in N Y • NJ • FL • MI • PA

Licensed in N Y • NJ • FL • MI • PA

Licensed in N Y • NJ • FL • MI • PA

• Licensed in N Y • NJ • FL • MI • PA • Licensed in N Y • NJ • FL • MI • PA • Licensed in N Y • NJ • FL • MI • PA

I work with clients who want support around:

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    OCD, Anxiety, and/or Rumination

    Effectively managing the impact of intrusive thoughts, persistent worries, fear, difficulty concentrating, and other symptoms.

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    Chronic Illness, Pain and Associated Distress

    Coping with the frustration, grief, loneliness, existential fear (and also internalized ableism) of chronic illness and chronic pain.

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    LGBTQ+ Identity

    Exploring queerness in any form, particularly what it means to be a queer person at this point in human history.

  • Relationship Patterns

    Breaking unhealthy or unwanted relationship patterns, including re-establishing healthy relationships with family as an adult.

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    Sex Therapy

    Understanding sexual experiences of any kind, whether resulting from specific sexual trauma or not: pain or dissociation during sex, difficulty with orgasm or arousal, discrepancies around sexual desire or interest, shame around sex, untangling compulsory sexuality.

    This can also mean support in building a sex life that feels more “you”: exploring kink & BDSM, grappling with asexuality, navigating personal vs. professional sex life for sex workers, “queering” sex, increasing capacity for vulnerability & intimacy during sex

  • Self-Conceptualization

    Making meaning of life, finding purpose, and developing a strong and grounded sense of self.

My Ideal Clients

Ready to make a change, even if they're not sure what that is yet.

Engaged, playful, willing to try something new, wanting to
be challenged.

Trying to know themselves more deeply.

Curious about themselves, asking questions and exploring new ideas.

My approach is influenced by:

  • Parts work

  • Systems thinking

  • Existential philosophy

  • Psychodynamic & relational theory

  • Somatics (I.e. the understanding that emotions, narratives, beliefs manifest physically in the body in a multitude of ways that demand our caring attention)

  • the Psychology of sadomasochism

  • Disability justice

  • the Sisyphean interplay between desire and suffering

Modalities that I use

I build upon traditional talk therapy in an exploratory approach that is more dynamic than just skills-building or advice-giving.

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Recommended Works

These reads greatly inform my approach to therapy and explore topics ranging from OCD and existential anxiety to sexual dysfunction and relationship patterns. Many of these books also explore themes of race, trauma, disability and queerness - all of which play a major role in how people experience mental health and illness in different ways.

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