Common areas we support include:

• Anxiety, stress, panic, and overwhelm

• Depression, low mood, and burnout

• Self-esteem, shame, and self-criticism

• Neurodivergence (ADHD/autistic traits), executive functioning, and emotional regulation

• Relationship patterns, attachment, communication, and boundaries

• Trauma, grief, and life transitions

• Identity exploration (including LGBTQIA+ concerns)

BIPS Gender Care Program (Brooklyn / NYC / Oregon / Massachusetts Telehealth)

BIPS provides specialized mental health services that support the broader gender care needs of transgender and gender-diverse clients. We view gender care as healthcare and approach our work with clinical rigor, respect, and collaboration—without functioning as gatekeepers.

Our gender care clinicians offer:

• Ongoing therapy addressing gender dysphoria and related stressors

• Single-session or short-term evaluations when appropriate

• Letters of medical necessity when clinically indicated

• Care coordination support through our Gender Care Client Care Coordinator (with appropriate releases)

Our approach is informed by the WPATH Standards of Care (Version 8) and grounded in ethical, evidence-informed practice.

A space to slow down, tell the truth, and understand what’s been carrying you.
Individual therapy is a place to look beneath symptoms—anxiety, low mood, burnout, disconnection—and get curious about the patterns underneath. We’ll pay attention to the relationships you’ve had, the roles you learned to play, the feelings you had to manage alone, and the ways you protect yourself now (even when those strategies are costing you). Along the way, we’ll bring in practical tools when helpful—grounding, nervous system regulation, skills for boundaries and communication—without losing the deeper thread of meaning and change.

Not just “better communication”—a different experience with each other.
Most couples aren’t fighting about what they think they’re fighting about. We help partners identify the cycle they get pulled into—pursue/withdraw, criticize/defend, shut down/escalate—and understand what each person is protecting. Sessions focus on creating safety for honesty, naming the impact of old wounds, and rebuilding trust through repair. We work with couples at all stages: dating, engaged, married, co-parenting, navigating infidelity, opening a relationship, or considering separation with care.

Many BIPS therapists use Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), an evidence-based approach developed by Dr. Sue Johnson. EFT helps couples:

• Identify and shift unhelpful interaction patterns

• Strengthen emotional safety, responsiveness, and trust

• Improve communication and conflict repair

• Increase closeness, intimacy, and relationship satisfaction

We are inclusive of LGBTQIA+ couples and welcome diverse relationship structures.

When one person is struggling, the whole system is involved.
Family therapy helps families move out of stuck roles—“the responsible one,” “the problem,” “the mediator”—and into a more flexible, connected way of relating. We support families navigating adolescence, separation/divorce, blended family transitions, parent–child rupture, and high-conflict communication. Parent sessions can also be a place to build steadier boundaries, reduce power struggles, and strengthen the emotional climate at home.

Depth work in community—where patterns show up in real time.
Groups can be powerful for people who feel alone, “different,” or stuck in relational patterns. With skilled facilitation, group therapy becomes a place to practice honesty, boundaries, repair, and receiving support—often faster than individual therapy alone.

Ready to flip the script on negative thought patterns? CBT helps you break free from mental ruts and start living with intention and clarity.

Psychodynamic psychotherapy for adults is a depth-oriented, relational approach that explores how early attachment experiences, internalized beliefs, and largely unconscious patterns shape present-day emotions, relationships, and self-concept. Treatment focuses on identifying recurring interpersonal dynamics, strengthening reflective capacity, and expanding affect tolerance—supporting enduring change in both symptom experience and overall functioning.

Relief is possible without turning you into a project.
We treat anxiety as more than a set of symptoms—it often has a story. In therapy, we’ll explore what anxiety is organizing for you (control, safety, achievement, approval) and what it’s trying to prevent. When indicated, we bring in evidence-based approaches like CBT/ACT strategies, exposure work for panic, and ERP for OCD—grounded in a compassionate, depth-oriented frame that doesn’t shame your mind for doing its job.

When life feels heavy, we help you find your way back to yourself.
Depression can be exhaustion, disconnection, irritability, or a quiet sense of “what’s the point.” Grief can be loss, but also a life that didn’t happen—a relationship, a role, a future. We make room for the full emotional reality while also supporting structure: daily rhythms, small steps, reconnection to relationships, and the slow return of desire and meaning.

Trauma work that doesn’t force a timeline—and doesn’t leave you alone with it.
Trauma can show up as hypervigilance, numbness, shame, panic, dissociation, chronic relationship instability, or the feeling that you’re “too much” or “not enough.” We take a paced approach that prioritizes safety and stabilization first. Depending on fit, we integrate trauma-informed modalities such as EMDR, somatic work, parts/inner-systems approaches, and skills for nervous system regulation—while also making room for grief, meaning, and the relational healing that often matters most.

You’ve been through a lot, and PTSD treatment is here to help you take back control, regain stability, and feel like yourself again.

Life moves fast, but mindfulness-based therapy helps you slow down, tune in, and find peace—even when everything feels chaotic.

A thoughtful, shame-free place to talk about what’s hard to say out loud.
We support concerns like desire discrepancies, anxiety around sex, pain, difficulty with arousal or orgasm, and intimacy after betrayal, childbirth, or trauma. The focus is not performance. It’s communication, safety, self-acceptance, and creating the conditions where pleasure and closeness can return.

For people who keep ending up in the same story with different characters.
Many clients come in saying, “I don’t know why I do this.” We’ll look at how early attachment experiences shaped what feels safe, what feels threatening, and what you expect from closeness. This work can shift patterns like people-pleasing, fear of abandonment, emotional shutdown, perfectionism, and difficulty trusting—so relationships become less about survival and more about choice.

Stress piling up? Our stress relief therapy gives you the tools to hit reset, so you can keep your cool and take life on without burning out.