Terrance J. Rooney, LCSW-R

Many people come to therapy feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure why certain patterns keep repeating. Therapy offers a place to begin paying attention to these patterns and to what makes them hard to change. I am a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City, working with adults in once weekly therapy and, when it would help, more frequent meetings. The concerns people bring include stage of life transitions, work and relationship difficulties, anxiety, trauma, grief, and depression. I have particular experience working with people in the arts, including performers, and with early-career psychiatric and mental health clinicians in their own treatment. The work is built around a steady therapeutic relationship. We pay attention to what repeats, what becomes difficult to say, and how feelings are handled as they come up. As these patterns become clearer, new ways of responding, both in therapy and in daily life, can begin to take shape. I am a graduate of the Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York, affiliated with NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and I earned my MSW in Clinical Social Work from New York University. I teach psychodynamic psychotherapy at PANY, where I am a member of the faculty. If you are considering therapy, a consultation is a chance to talk about what you are looking for and whether working together makes sense.