Cristina Vaccaro
My experience in therapy led me to become a therapist. After years in the arts and academia, I realized that my story had changed. So I shifted directions, went back to school and earned a Master’s Degree in Clinical Social Work from the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College nearly 10 years ago. In that time, I’ve worked as a therapist in both community mental health settings and private practice, and with people from a wide range of ages, identities, and backgrounds.
First session
In session we’ll talk about things both big and small – the shape of your day, the events of your week, the moments of your life you carry with you. Together we’ll create a space where you can listen to your thoughts, connect to your feelings and deepen your understanding of your experience and how it informs where you are. You may not always know what to say. I may not always know what to say. But together, I believe, we will say something important.
Strengths
Sometime just being with someone is healing. I don't have an agenda and I don't feel the need to fix anything. I want only to sit with you and listen, to be beside you as you wander through your inner life and your outer world, and help you find your way of bringing those two things more in tune.
Ideal clients
You want something different. Maybe there’s a current crisis or ongoing feelings of dissatisfaction, anger that gets the better of you, sadness that won’t go away or confusion about where you’re going. Whatever brings you to this place, you know you want more. You want to speak more. You want to do more. You want to feel more. You want to deepen your connection to yourself and to others. Most of all, you want to create a change that brings more - more vitality, more purpose and more meaning to your life. Give yourself the space to think, to feel, and to imagine a different way of being.
Treatment methods
Psychodynamic
We all come to our struggles honestly. And with honesty, we can move through them. In session we’ll talk about things both big and small – the shape of your day, the events of your week, the moments of your life you carry with you. On a deeper level, it's all connected. From a place of compassion we’ll dive into patterns of thought and relating that have been with you from your beginning and explore how they have informed and impacted your present. And with honesty, we’ll ask if they still make sense for your future.
Location
Virtual sessions