Trauma-informed
Somatic Relational Therapy
in NYC
Elena Ryabtseva, MS, LMHC, CGT
We get injured in relationships, especially in those primary ones, but we heal in relationships, too.
Consistency, privacy, and safety of a therapeutic relationship allows it to become, in time, a healing relationship.
Therapy session is a space, time, and place where transformation happens.
Therapy is your investment into yourself.
It takes courage to want to know oneself.
Embodiment is essential.
We all have unloved and exiled parts of self, and sometimes these parts have us in their grip. Learning to relate to these aspects of self in new ways initiates change. It is the change itself.
We all carry beliefs about ourselves. Some of those beliefs we accepted when we were very young, some formed under a lot of stress and very little support. Many of those beliefs no longer serve our wholeness. Some of them were never true in the first place.
I believe that…
Service Offerings
Individual Therapy
Anxiety
Depression
Trauma therapy
LGBTQIA+ therapy
Personal Growth & Transformation
Therapy for Therapists
Group Therapy
Psychedelic Integration Therapy Group
Women’s Therapy Group
Psychedelic Therapy & Integration
Transitions and life’s thresholds
Unmetabolized developmental and intergenerational trauma
Intergenerational, ancestral, and cultural trauma
Grief
Blocked creativity
Shadow work
Longing for connection to spirit and the universal web of life
(She/Her)
Elena Ryabtseva, MS, LMHC, CGT
I am a somatic Gestalt therapist and Jungian analyst with 10+ years of experience, and a faculty at Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. I practice a body-oriented, relational, and culturally sensitive approach, specializing in working with survivors of dysfunctional upbringing, acute and chronic trauma, LGBTQIA+ issues, women's themes, spirituality, and psychedelic integration.
Reconnect with your potential
Reconnect with your potential
“When the praying mantis opens its wings
it becomes a green flower.
When the egg breaks
it becomes a bird.
When the river is finished, its avenues of light
fold and drop and fall into
and become the sea.”