You've tried the strategies and tools. You're looking for something deeper.
Your efforts aren't failing, it's that the problem requires a different kind of work. Unlike approaches that manage symptoms without addressing the source, we get to the root of what’s weighing you down so you can finally become free of it.
Many therapy methods treat the echo, but not the voice that created it.
Psychodynamic therapy isn't about targeting symptoms with techniques. Rather, it's a process that looks beneath the surface to understand what's actually driving your struggles. Through reflection and self-exploration, the source of the distress becomes visible, and the patterns that have run your life start to loosen.
What brings people here?
People come to this work for many reasons, and often can't name the real one at first. Some of what we work with:
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Anxiety that persists, despite efforts to manage it
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Depression, or a heaviness that's hard to explain
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The same painful patterns repeating in relationships
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Loneliness, even around people
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Trouble getting along with others at work or at home
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Chronic illness and pain that affects more than just the body
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The weight of parenting, and everything it brings up
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Stress that has become a baseline, not the exception
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Grief and loss that doesn't follow a timeline or a neat set of stages
Something in you is speaking. We know how to listen.
Click to see what may be behind the things people say.
"I keep pushing people away."
Rejection feels terrifying but your symptoms protect you, saying: if I leave first, I can't be left. The real question beneath it: Why does part of you believe that every closeness is bound to end?
"I feel heavy and disconnected, like I'm moving through a fog."
What are you pushing down just to get through the day? What is this fog trying to distract you from?
"I always self-sabotage right when things are going well."
Does getting what you want feel dangerous? One part of you reaches for success, while something older in you isn't sure you're allowed to have it. The sabotage is that argument playing out.
"If I'm not in total control of every detail, I feel like my life will fall apart."
What is the chaos you're bracing against? Somewhere you learned that control was the only thing keeping you safe. The work is finding out whether it's still true.
"I can't stop eating."
What are you actually hungry for? What is the thirst or internal tension that this behavior is trying to soothe?
Meet Chaya Rubin
My role is to help you hear something that you never heard before, but that you yourself have been saying all along.
Chaya Rubin, Ph.D.
I founded Reverie after years of working with people that had already tried a range of approaches; strategies, tools, and short-term solutions, without finding the kind of relief they were hoping for. Often, it wasn’t a question of effort, but of depth. Work that stays at the surface tends to have limited reach. Reverie aims to make depth-oriented treatment more accessible.
Over 15 years of experience in private practice
Former staff psychologist at Fordham University
Former clinical supervisor at Ferkauf (YU) and Derner (Adelphi) Doctoral Programs
Advanced candidate, NYU postdoctoral program in psychoanalysis
Supervisor and study group leader for psychotherapists
Public speaker for professional organizations and community audiences
Comprehensive care for adolescents, adults, and couples.
Pyschodynamic Therapy
Psychoanalysis
Couples Therapy
Parenting Guidance
Consultations
In-person in Brooklyn, NY & Lakewood, NJ and via Telehealth