Christine Dempsey

I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in New York State who approaches therapy with collaboration, compassion, and authenticity in mind.

If you are struggling with low self-esteem, people-pleasing patterns, difficulty setting boundaries, and feeling stuck in painful or unhelpful thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, I can help you develop self-trust, strengthen self-esteem, prioritize your needs, establish healthy boundaries, and build the skills you need to move through difficult thoughts and feelings with greater flexibility and self-awareness.

Using a person-centered, compassionate approach, I integrate cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness-based therapies to help you better understand yourself, clarify what matters most to you, and take meaningful steps toward living more authentically.

I also incorporate body-based awareness and movement practices to help cultivate understanding of how emotions show up in the body, what those emotions may be communicating, and how to reconnect with your own internal wisdom.

I work with adults experiencing symptoms of ADHD, anxiety, stress, depression, low self-esteem, people-pleasing patterns, difficulty setting boundaries, and difficulty with life transitions.

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Together, we explore what is getting in the way of the life you want and build practical strategies to help you create a life that feels meaningful, grounded, and aligned with your values.

We will examine the way we think about our life and where we might consider cultivating a more expanded perspective.

We will develop life skills to manage difficult emotions, beliefs, and behavioral patterns that get in the way of the life we want for ourself, including minfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation and interperson effectiveness.

We will work towards changing our relationship to the difficult thoughts, emotions and behaviors that keep us stuck; examine our values and what is most important to us; learn to engaging in actions that take us towards a more satisfying life, in line with what is important to us, with mindfulness and intention.