About Yessenia Lajara, LCSW, TCTSY-F

You will feel heard, understood, and supported.

Having a safe space where you can be yourself is essential when working through trauma, relationship challenges, emotional distress, or life experiences.

You need a place where you feel comfortable exploring your thoughts, feelings, relationships, and past experiences. So you can gain clarity, insights, and understanding about your current life, past, and goals.

So you can reconnect with yourself — your dreams and goals — and strengthen your connection with family, loved ones, friends, and your past.

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I provide a safe, judgment-free place where all are welcome.

I understand the importance of seeing the whole you. My practice is inclusive and a supportive, safe place where you can freely share your thoughts, feelings, experiences, and hopes.

Additionally, as a Latina and first-generation American, I specialize in helping people of color, immigrants, and first-generation Americans.

I understand the importance of exploring your background, personal history, and life experiences to help you gain a better perspective of your whole self.

As a daughter of parents who emigrated from the Dominican Republic in the 1970s, I also understand firsthand the struggle of feeling displaced and floating between two worlds that many first-generation Americans feel.

We don’t “get over” or “move on” from our trauma. Instead, we make space for it. We carry it and learn to live with it. And sometimes, we thrive in spite of it.

My trauma-informed therapies for individuals and couples are tailored to meet your needs.

You don’t have to work through trauma, life challenges, and relationship issues on your own.

My integrative, trauma-informed therapies are personalized to focus on your situation so you gain the skills, support, and insights to move forward.

I’m a certified EMDR specialist. I also incorporate proven strategies and skills from various approaches, including:

EMDR
Inner Child Work
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
Mindfulness techniques
Skills-based training
Psychoeducation
As a bilingual Spanish-speaking therapist in New York, I offer sessions in English or Spanish.

I also provide mindfulness-based workplace wellness workshops for organizations, schools, and companies to promote self-care, stress management, and improved work/life balance.

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You can create the fulfilling life and relationships you want.

I can help you gain insights, deepen your connection to yourself and others, and help you heal. So you can live the life you desire.