Our Team

Ella Kreydina, LCSW

Practice Director

About

Becoming a therapist was the result of combining various experiences as well as passions. My interest in humanity, psychology, and spirituality led me to this field. I find it profoundly fascinating to think about what may cause us to behave as we do and the way that forces that are not even consciously known to us influence our actions. This curiosity is a thread that moves through all my work and my life. My clinical focus is person-centered, emotion-focused, and psychodynamic, as it includes the factors that I believe are the most indicative of understanding the structures that impact both my clients and myself. My expertise and training are focused on working through experiences of anxiety, relationship issues, life transitions, and shame.

I take a collaborative and conversational approach to counseling. I work to provide a healthy and creative environment where I center my clients as the experts. My intent as a therapist is to become a mirror so my clients can think deeply and reflect on their desires, purpose, and patterns. I emphasize genuineness and empathy in my work. By centering around your truths, I bring warmth and openness to the clinical relationship.

My core values are profoundly influenced by my personal and professional narratives. Growing up as an immigrant in New York, I had to learn how to navigate various systems during my process of acculturation. I have straddled both sides of the fence, first as someone who has had to face factors of adversity as an immigrant and now as someone who has the privilege of being in the role of a helping professional. Through a diverse set of experiences and vacillating between how to navigate different parts of my identity throughout my life, I have come to appreciate the depth of the human experience, no matter how painful or pleasant it may be.

Christine Galotti, LMSW

Associate Clinician

About

I believe you are capable of deep and lasting healing. Therapy offers us the opportunity to develop an observational self – an awareness of ourselves as unique individuals navigating complex social systems, from our families of origin to our professional lives and beyond. It’s a ritual during which we can not only reflect on what hurts, what feels meaningful, and what we want out of life, but also move in the direction of repair, growth, and positive changes.

I can assist you in achieving your goals by co-creating a warm and accepting space in our sessions. I want you to feel invited to share your truths with me, so together we can work to find the type of acceptance that resonates for you, one that doesn’t agree with or excuse the pain you’ve experienced, but rather feels true and precedes understanding.

I have experience working with clients from a variety of backgrounds and life circumstances. I welcome you to bring all the parts of you into our sessions. Together, we can work through anxious thoughts, painful memories, relationship tensions, and other complex facets of life.

CREDENTIALS

Hunter College, Silberman School of Social Work

M.S.W. Clinical Social Work with Individuals and Families

Hunter College

B.A. Sociology and Psychology

 

 

 

 

CREDENTIALS

NYU, Silver School of Social Work

M.S.W. Clinical Social Work with Individuals and Families

Hunter College

B.A. Sociology 

 

 

 

Contact

For general inquires, to schedule our first session, or to request a free 15 minute consultation, please don’t hesitate to contact me via phone or email.

I am committed to your privacy. Please, don’t include private information regarding your health when making your inquiry. 

ellakreydinapsychotherapy@protonmail.com

929-662-6653