Professional Individual and Couples Therapy in Brooklyn and across New York State.

Why work with Avi?

Avi Steinhardt, LCSW has over twenty years of experience and over a decade in private practice working with patients with dispositions that span the mental health continuum from relationship issues, anxiety and mood disorders to psychosis and substance abuse. Avi utilizes a dynamic blend of interventions (Gestalt, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, CBT, and others) tailored to each patient's needs and presentation. Avi earned his Master of Social Work (MSW) from New York University in 2009 and later completed training as a Gestalt Therapist, graduating from the Gestalt Institute of New England in 2011.

A note from Avi:

Gestalt Therapy drew me in because of its existential and humanistic approach, its focus on the "here and now," its ability to easily accommodate other interventions, and its assertion that as therapists we can never truly know another's experience.

Psychotherapy has very different meanings depending on the practitioner. Many skilled therapists approach this work systematically and with methodical precision- I sometimes refer to them as “knobs and levers therapists”. For many people, that is exactly what they need. Other therapists approach therapy itself as an art, and I count myself among them. I seek a poetics of the therapeutic process, understanding that neither the psyche nor our paths through life are particularly linear.