Curiosity cultivates hope, growth and healing — let’s get curious together and go toward the life you want.

Therapy for EMDR, trauma, anxiety, grief, careers, and couples/intimate relationships

Alyssa Bekerman, LCSW

Welcome To Your Next Phase In Healing

If you experience any of the following, you may be in the right place…

  • Thinking that you’re a burden, that you are not enough and/or too much

  • Difficulty making and maintaining boundaries

  • Non-stop worrying and feel like your brain never turns off

  • Feeling disconnected, whether from your sense of self, your body, your relationships, and/or your communities

  • Wanting to heal from trauma from your childhood and/or past relationships

  • Longing for someone nonjudgemental to help process your grief or life transitions

Whatever brings you to my site, I’m glad you’re here. Healing often feels confusing, scary, or just annoyingly necessary, so having supportive people alongside you can help. I’m grateful and excited for the possibility of being one of the people in your healing journey.

“To hope is to gamble. It’s to bet on your futures, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is better than gloom and safety. To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk.”

— Rebecca Solnit, writer and activist

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Hello! I’m Alyssa Bekerman

I’m a trauma and relationship therapist dedicated to supporting individuals and couples/intimate relationships heal from past traumas and build greater connections with themselves and other people. I use non-judgement, straightforwardness, and dry humor to support my clients in strengthening their abilities to maintain boundaries, regulate emotions, manage conflict, and ultimately cultivate the lives they desire. My specialties include CPTSD, anxiety, chronic illness/medical trauma, sexual trauma, grief, and career counseling.

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EMDR & Therapy for Relational Trauma - such as CPTSD, Sexual Trauma, Divorce

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Therapy for Anxiety

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Therapy for Chronic Illness & Medical Trauma

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Therapy for Couples & Intimate Relationships

Guiding Values

My core values guide me both professionally and personally. I will bring my full, authentic self to our therapy sessions so that we can build an environment together that feels safe, warm, and non-judgemental.

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  • I view curiosity as an essential element in the healing process, as it encourages us to explore thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and experiences with openness and non-judgement. As a therapist, being curious helps me to prevent making assumptions and ask meaningful, present-centered questions. For my clients, cultivating curiosity about their own experiences leads to greater self-awareness, self-compassion and willingness to engage in their own growth. 

  • We are often wounded in relationships and thus are often healed in relationships. The therapeutic relationship can be one of healing, and I believe that therapy alone is rarely the antidote to our struggles. Instead, I recognize the value in supporting my clients to deepen their sense of community for their own healing, and in that process I hope therapy becomes a vehicle for not only individual growth but also potentially collective resilience and systemic change. 

  • While I cannot change my own personality, I adapt how I work with each client to their particular needs. This flexibility fosters a collaborative and client-centered dynamic. Additionally, I aim to be flexible and understanding of how life circumstances can influence how my clients show up to therapy, what they have capacity for at any given moment, and I adapt the therapeutic process as needed. 

  • I am naturally a straightforward communicator, and I believe that being transparent about the therapeutic process is vital to building trusting and supportive relationships with my clients. I will be honest and upfront about my therapeutic methods and paperwork, and I will be open about my own identities and political stances. While I will never attempt to shift your core beliefs or share more about myself than contextually relevant, it is important that my clients are aware of my background and beliefs to maintain a safe, inclusive environment.

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Let’s work together

Curious if I’m the right fit for your therapeutic needs? If so, complete the form below, and I’ll reach out to set up a free 20 minute phone consultation.