Theresa Sturley

I'm a Brooklyn Heights-based psychodynamic, EMDR-certified therapist who helps people feeling stuck or overwhelmed in certain key areas of their lives - family, work, relationships. These are all crucial areas to feel empowered and have agency, but stressors pile up, and sometimes the dam breaks.

Therapy can be instrumental in understanding and providing space and compassion for those areas that we want to work on, but we feel overwhelmed by. We all have issues, we all have blind spots. I like to provide a safe space to be willing to open up and be vulnerable and able to gently move through anger, pain, sadness, and other uncomfortable feelings. I'm an empathic, in the trenches therapist.

I've found EMDR to be incredibly helpful in terms of clearing out past trauma, that was stuck in our bodies and minds, and causing current day distress. Sometimes it's very apparent, and other times the underlying roots become clearer while doing EMDR. I've successfully treated work conflict, medical trauma, childhood trauma including emotional and sexual abuse, trauma connected to the grief of losing a loved one and past bullying. EMDR is a wonderful modality in that the healing comes from the client, with the help of the therapist.

Right now, I'm seeing clients in person and via telehealth.