Victoria Blumberg (she/her)

As a psychodynamic, trauma-informed therapist and psychoanalyst, I offer a space to honor your strengths as we explore what’s driving the problematic patterns in your life, understanding how you relate to yourself and the world around you. Goals include connecting thoughts and emotions to behaviors, to enhance insight into your relationships and the role you play in them, unpacking old thoughts and beliefs that do not serve you any longer, working towards replacing them with more adaptive ones, and to increase healthier coping skills to regulate emotions to life's stressors. 

In my private practice I work with adults, providing individual therapy sessions. I specialize in eating disorders and work with trauma, relational conflict, disordered eating, mood disruptions, life stressors, substance abuse, addiction, work-related issues and more. I value diversity including but not limited to race, religion, sexuality, gender, and culture, working to understand how these aspects of identity intersect- and influence a person’s experience of themselves. I take an active approach to improve my knowledge base and endeavoring to be culturally responsive, by participating in workshops and trainings in theory, technique, equity and inclusivity, to provide an environment that fosters continuous growth in all areas of being. 

I utilize a number of different techniques to maximize a containing environment for our work, to meet specific needs - relational theory, psychoanalytic theory, polyvagal theory, family systems theory (IFS), intuitive eating, emotion-focused therapy (EFT), somatic experiencing, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), role theory, dream work, and breath work.

I completed my Undergraduate degree majoring in Psychology and Drama, at the University of Cape Town. I moved to New York and received another Psychology degree at Long Island University's Southampton College. I completed my Masters degree in Creative Arts Therapy with a focus on Drama Therapy at New York University and went on to receive my Psychoanalytic license after training with the Institute of Expressive Analysis. I currently serve on the Board of Directors as Membership Chair for the Institute of Expressive Analysis.