Lenox Hill · Upper East Side · New York
Some patterns don’t respond to willpower.They respond to being understood.
I’m Joseph Robson, a licensed mental health counselor in New York. I practice psychodynamic psychotherapy with adults navigating anxiety, OCD, depression, and trauma — in person on the Upper East Side, or online anywhere in New York State.
New York LMHC · License 016581
By the time most people call me, they’ve already tried to handle it alone — often for years.
I specialize in working with adults experiencing anxiety, OCD, depression, and trauma. My training is psychodynamic, which means we’ll look beyond the symptoms themselves to understand the experiences, conflicts, and patterns beneath them. Together, we’ll explore not only what is making life difficult now, but how these patterns developed, what they may have once helped you manage or protect against, and how they can begin to change.
More about Joseph →Where people begin
If any of this feels familiar, you’re in the right place.
None of these mean something is wrong with you. They mean something in you is working very hard — and it’s tired. That’s where we start.
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life — and you will call it fate.”
— C.G. Jung
The approach
Therapy that asks why, not just what to do about it.
The symptom is rarely the whole story. The checking, the worry, the flatness — these usually have a logic to them, a history that made them necessary once. Psychodynamic work follows the thread: the behaviors, thoughts, and patterns that limit your ability to move forward, and the experiences that shaped them.
It happens in an unhurried, nonjudgmental room where you can say the thing you haven’t said out loud yet — and where the point, always, is more room to live.
The practice at a glance
Everything up front, no digging required.
Full detail on the fees & insurance page.
- Location
- 329 East 62nd Street, New York, NY 10065 — & online across NY State
- Fee
- $200 per individual session · sliding scale if you may be eligible
- Insurance
- Aetna · Carelon Behavioral Health · Cigna and Evernorth · Medicare · UnitedHealthcare | UBH
- Credential
- New York LMHC · License 016581
- Training
- Third year of psychoanalytic training
- First step
- A free 15-minute phone consultation — no forms, no commitment
No pressure, no commitment
Fifteen minutes to see whether this is the right fit.
Finding the right therapist is its own kind of work. The consultation is free and it’s simply a conversation — you ask questions, I listen, and we both get a sense of whether the fit is there.
Call (516) 578-0978