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The relationship between patient and therapist is essential. I focus on the here-and-now experience in therapy while taking into account your past experiences and relationships as we consider aspects of your life that are causing you pain. I listen to what is happening in your life and the surrounding world and will help you think about your feelings and experiences as we examine what may be interfering with you living the life you wish to lead.
I work responsively and nonjudgmentally, and I hope to create a trusting environment in which you feel safe to express your feelings, thoughts, and needs.
I am a licensed psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City and Dobbs Ferry, NY. I work with adults of all ages using psychoanalytic psychotherapy and relational psychoanalysis. Although I do not participate in insurance panels, my services are reimbursable by many health insurance companies.
MEREDITH DARCY, LCSW-R
I am a licensed clinical psychotherapist and psychoanalyst with 25 years of private practice experience. In addition to my clinical work, I serve as a faculty member and supervisor at The Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology, and as an associate editor for the peer-reviewed journal Contemporary Psychoanalysis.
Over the years, I have authored numerous psychoanalytic articles that have been published and presented on national platforms. My contributions to the field include receiving the 2018 Lawrence Kaufman Award for my article “The Case of Cora: Psychotic Anxieties, Containment, and the Role of Group Supervision.” I also authored the chapter “Too Warm, Too Soft, Too Maternal: What is Good Enough” in the 2017 Routledge book A Womb of Her Own: Women’s Struggle for Sexual and Reproductive Autonomy (edited by E. Toronto et al.). Recently, I co-edited a Special Issue on Abortion for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, published in November 2023, which features my paper “The Dobbs Decision, Forced Pregnancy, and the Fantasy of the Selfless Mother.”
My work is deeply rooted in exploring the complexities of the human experience, particularly identity formation, societal expectations around gender, the interplay of the physical body and emotional attachment, human interconnectedness, and the development of selfhood. Through my teaching, supervision, clinical practice, and writing, I aim to bridge psychoanalytic theory with real-world applications, enriching understanding and promoting growth in both individuals and communities.
“in the midst of winter,i found there was,within me, an invincable summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
Albert Camus
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Services
Individual Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy involves communication between two people, patient and therapist, to help find relief from emotional distress, such as becoming less anxious, fearful, or depressed. Psychotherapy aims to help improve your sense of well-being, mental health, painful interactions, beliefs, compulsions, thoughts, emotions, and relationships and increase your overall happiness. Successful psychotherapy depends on a supportive, comfortable relationship with a trusted therapist. Psychotherapy can take place once weekly for 45-50 minutes in my office or through telecommunication.
Intensive Psychotherapy
Twice-weekly psychotherapy allows for a deeper, more intensive psychotherapy treatment. This treatment has more impact and promotes greater opportunity for insight and change.
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis means meeting multiple times per week, where we'll have the opportunity to explore aspects of yourself and your relationships with more depth and consistency. Through interpersonal/relational psychoanalysis, we'll examine your life and help develop your voice and understanding of yourself and your relationship with others more clearly. Psychoanalysis is about freedom from suffering and from painful patterns of relating with people and your past. Our psychoanalytic exploration will enable you to become more authentically your self as an independent yet connected person who experiences life with more fullness and satisfaction. Both psychotherapy and psychoanalysis increase your ability to feel and experience life with a greater capacity to live in "the moment" and to make and experience the freedom of choice.
I address the following:
o Relationship problems
o Life changes and transitions
o Depression and anxiety
o Emotional distress and dysregulation
o Stress and anxiety
o Sadness, emptiness, loneliness
o Feeling out of control
o Postpartum blues, anxiety, or depression
o Insecurity
o Career issues
o Trauma
o Intimacy difficulties
o Self-esteem
o Self-injury
o Mood disorders
o Grief and loss
o Finding more fulfillment and joy in life
o Sexual identity or sexual concerns
o Panic Disorder
o Parenting
o Pregnancy and infertility issues
o Obsessional thinking
o Procrastination
o And more
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CONTACT ME
To schedule a consultation, text or email
meredith.darcy@gmail.com
145 Palisade St. Suite 396, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522
168 West End Ave. Suite 1C, NYC, NY 10023
