Liben Psychotherapy
You Keep It Together for Everyone. Let’s Build a Foundation That Holds You Too.
In Person and Virtual in New York City
Therapy for those managing anxiety, perfectionism, and the seasons of life no one warned them about.
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Is This You?
You know you don’t want to keep suffering, but you need help interrupting the automatic coping patterns that got you here.
- You’re the one people call when something goes wrong, and you can’t remember the last time someone asked how you were doing.
- You’ve hit the milestones you were supposed to hit, and it hasn’t turned down the volume on the voice telling you it’s not enough yet.
- You hold yourself to a standard nobody else could meet, and you’re exhausted from trying to meet it anyway.
- You’re in the middle of something big, grad school, a new relationship, trying to get pregnant, becoming a parent, and there’s no manual for the version of you this requires.
- Delegating feels more stressful than just doing it yourself, even though you’re already overwhelmed.
- You don’t want to be handed a diagnosis and a worksheet. You want a therapist who sees you as a capable adult working through something real.
If even one of these sounds like your week, you’re in the right place.
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A Different Kind of Practice
Lindsay Liben has been practicing for 13 years, and she built this practice around one idea: you don’t need to be fixed. You need a therapist who can keep up with you.
Our therapists carry intentionally small caseloads. That means you’re not one of sixty names on a calendar. It means real availability between sessions, a response within a day, and a clinician who remembers what you talked about last week without checking their notes.
We don’t treat your anxiety or your perfectionism as a problem to be corrected. They’re responses that made sense given your life and your history. Our job isn’t to pathologize how you got here. It’s to help you build something different from here forward.
From your first consultation call, you’ll get a therapist who is present, responsive, and invested in how your actual life is going, not just how your fifty minutes together are going.
Founder Lindsay Liben has spent over a decade building a practice around real relationships, not quick fixes.
Our therapists carry fewer clients than industry standard, so you get real availability between sessions and a clinician who remembers your story.
We don’t treat your anxiety or perfectionism as something broken. We help you understand it and build something different from here.
Our Specialties
You know the loop: the racing thoughts, the tight chest, the mind that won’t stop scanning for what could go wrong. We’ll help you understand what’s driving it so you can feel steady again, not just distracted from it.
The heaviness, the disconnection, the sense that you’re going through the motions of your own life. We’ll give you space to feel it and a way back to yourself that doesn’t require pretending you’re fine.
Academic pressure, a new identity, a life transition nobody told you would be this disorienting. We’ll help you get grounded while you figure out who you’re becoming.
The pressure you put on yourself is louder than anything anyone else could say to you. We’ll help you loosen its grip so you can feel at ease in your own life again, not just in control of it.
Patterns in relationships that keep repeating, even when you know better. We’ll help you understand where they came from and build the kind of connection you actually want.
The relationship with your body that’s shaped by shame more than by respect. We’ll work on shifting that relationship toward something closer to trust.
The uncertainty, the grief, the waiting that comes with trying to conceive. We’ll help you carry it without carrying it alone.
The identity shift, the emotional overwhelm, the version of motherhood nobody warned you about. We’ll help you feel supported and like yourself again.
How We Work
We’ll help you get unstuck so you can get back to the life you actually want to be living.
As you get to know yourself better, you’ll feel more like yourself, not less.
Schedule a free call to learn more about how we work and whether it’s a fit.
Why Private Pay?
Why We Don’t Take Insurance
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Insurance requires a mental health diagnosis before they’ll cover a session, and that diagnosis becomes part of your permanent medical record. We don’t think you should need a label to get support.
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No diagnosis code, no session notes, nothing about what you’re working through gets sent to a third party.
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Insurance decides how often you can meet and sometimes which therapist you’re allowed to see. Private pay means it’s you and your therapist deciding what you need, for as long as you need it.
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Therapists who bill insurance often carry thirty or more clients to make the math work. Ours don’t. That’s part of how we’re able to respond quickly and be available when something comes up between sessions.
We provide a superbill for every session so you can submit for out-of-network reimbursement if your plan offers it.
Meet the Team
Every therapist on our team was chosen for the same reason: they show up fully, session after session, for the people they work with.
Contact Us
We are currently accepting new patients, so if you are interested in learning more about our services, please call us at (646) 450-4856, or send us a message by using the form.
NYC Psychotherapy
Virtual across New York state | In Person: 85 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10003