Jonathan Keigher PhD | Licensed Psychologist in NEW YORK

Therapy Services

Understanding the patterns beneath anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship struggles.

People come to therapy for many reasons. Some feel overwhelmed by anxiety. Others struggle with depression, difficult relationships, unresolved trauma, or a persistent sense that they keep repeating the same painful patterns.

At Dynamic Psychology, treatment begins with a simple assumption: symptoms make sense.

The ways we think, feel, and relate to others develop within the context of our life experiences and relationships. While these adaptations often help us cope, they can eventually leave us feeling stuck, disconnected, or dissatisfied. Through relational psychodynamic psychotherapy integrated with evidence-based treatment, Dr. Jonathan Keigher helps individuals understand these patterns and create meaningful, lasting change.

Explore the areas below to learn more about how therapy can help.

Anxiety is more than worry. It can feel like a mind that never turns off, a body that remains on alert, or a constant need to anticipate what might go wrong. Many people struggling with anxiety find themselves trapped in cycles of overthinking, perfectionism, self-doubt, or excessive responsibility for others. Together, we'll explore not only what fuels the anxiety, but the deeper emotional patterns and experiences that may be sustaining it. Therapy helps clients develop greater emotional flexibility, reduce chronic worry, and respond to uncertainty with greater confidence and resilience.

Depression often involves much more than sadness. It can leave you feeling disconnected from yourself, your relationships, and the things that once brought meaning to your life. Many people also struggle with a harsh inner critic that reinforces feelings of inadequacy, hopelessness, or shame. Therapy provides an opportunity to understand the emotional experiences, losses, and relationship patterns that contribute to depression while helping you reconnect with a stronger sense of vitality, self-compassion, and purpose.

Our earliest relationships shape how we experience trust, intimacy, conflict, and emotional closeness throughout life. You may find yourself worrying about abandonment, withdrawing when relationships become too close, struggling to trust others, or repeating the same relationship patterns despite your best efforts to change them. Therapy helps uncover the underlying attachment dynamics that influence your relationships while fostering greater emotional security, healthier boundaries, and more authentic connection.

Trauma affects more than memories. It can shape the way you experience yourself, your emotions, your relationships, and your sense of safety in the world. Some people become hypervigilant and anxious. Others become emotionally numb, disconnected, or fiercely independent. Therapy provides a space to understand the adaptations that helped you survive while developing new ways of relating to yourself and others. Recovery is not about erasing the past. It's about helping the past stop determining how you live in the present.

Anger is often misunderstood. While it can feel explosive, beneath it there is frequently fear, hurt, shame, grief, disappointment, or a deep sense of not being understood. Some people direct their anger outward through conflict and irritability. Others turn it inward through self-criticism, resentment, or emotional withdrawal. Together, we'll explore not only what triggers your anger, but the emotional experiences and relationship patterns that give it meaning. By integrating relational psychodynamic psychotherapy with evidence-based approaches to emotion regulation, therapy helps clients better understand their reactions, develop healthier ways of expressing emotions, strengthen relationships, and respond to life's challenges with greater flexibility rather than impulsivity or suppression.

A Personalized Approach to Therapy

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Therapy is always individualized. While two people may struggle with similar symptoms, the experiences, relationships, and emotional patterns that shaped those struggles are rarely the same. Rather than focusing solely on symptom reduction, treatment begins with understanding the unique person behind the symptoms and tailoring therapy to their history, relationships, strengths, and goals.

Dr. Keigher integrates relational psychodynamic psychotherapy with evidence-based approaches to help clients gain insight into longstanding patterns, strengthen emotional awareness, improve relationships, and create meaningful change that extends beyond symptom relief.

If you're considering therapy, the first step is a conversation. Contact Dr. Keigher to learn more about treatment and determine whether working together feels like the right fit.