Therapy that helps you make sense of your experience and imagine new possibilities.
A relational approach to therapy for individuals, couples, and families, grounded in understanding patterns, working through what’s difficult, and creating meaningful change over time.
My name is Rachael Benjamin, LCSW
My name is Rachael Benjamin, LCSW, and I have been practicing psychotherapy for over twenty years—first in community mental health, and for the last fourteen years in a private group therapy practice in Lower Manhattan. In that time, I’ve come to understand that suffering narrows imagination. It makes it harder to see past what hurts, or to picture something different. Therapy works by restoring that capacity: for curiosity, for understanding, and for the kind of change that holds.
My work is relational and unhurried. I ask questions, notice patterns, and stay close when things get difficult. I've worked with professionals and creatives under enormous pressure, with new and expectant parents navigating the complexities of early family life, with couples at a crossroads, and with people simply trying to understand themselves more fully.
There is so much to gain from having somewhere to slow down and feel known.
How We Work Together
Individual Therapy
I work with individuals to make sense of what's getting in the way—anxiety, sadness, pain, loss, loneliness, stuck-ness. Together, we slow things down and begin to understand the patterns that keep showing up, so you can feel more grounded in yourself and in your relationships.
Couples Therapy
I work with couples to understand what's happening beneath the conflict—the hurt, the disconnection, the patterns that have become hard to interrupt. Together, we make room for both perspectives to be heard and begin finding more intentional ways forward, even in moments that feel stuck.
Family & Co-Parenting Therapy
In family work, we create space for what's difficult to say—what feels stuck, strained, or out of reach. Together we ask the hard questions and work toward more honest ways of being with each other. For co-parents, this often means building a clearer sense of shared purpose and learning to lead as a more unified team.
Many of the people I work with are navigating seasons of life that surface older questions. Questions about who they are, what they want, and what they're carrying from the past. The circumstances vary widely. What matters is that you're here.
People often come to this work while navigating:
- High-pressure and high-responsibility careers
- Creative and performance-driven careers
- Major life and career transitions
- Balancing work, family, and self
- Balancing the demands of aging parents and children
- Later life, work, and retirement
- Pregnancy, postpartum, and early parenthood
- Postpartum anxiety, depression, or trauma
- Co-parenting and evolving family dynamics
- Work with parents of multipuls
- Birth Trauma
- Perimenopause/Menopause and parenthood
- Infertility & fertility treatments
- Miscarriage, implantation loss, pregnancy loss, and stillbirth
- Deciding whether to have children
- Perimenopause and Menopause
- Relationship strain, disconnection, and infidelity
- Family and sibling dynamics
- Separation, divorce, and relational crossroads
- Adult child and adult parent dynamics
- Anxiety and depression
- Grief, loss, and living loss
- Trauma and complex trauma
- Major life transitions
Relational, holistic, and responsive to the individual.
I practice a form of therapy that pays close attention to patterns shaped through relationships, with ourselves and others, past and present. At times, our work may focus on concrete skills; at others, on understanding deeper patterns and processes.
