S. Keren Stein,
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
With over 15 years of experience in mental health, including extensive trauma therapy work since 2010, I bring an affirming, experiential, strength-based and attachment-focused approach to healing.
My practice is grounded in the understanding that healing happens in relationship and partnership, grounded in safety and seeing each person’s unique strengths as the basis for helping them find their way towards living a life of authenticity, vitality and connection.
I hold a Master’s in Social Work from Yeshiva University's Wurzweiler School, Am a level II AEDP therapist and EMDR trained. I am an active member of both EMDRIA and the AEDP Institute, committed to providing evidence-based, compassionate care that honors your unique journey toward healing and wholeness.
Couples Therapy
If you often feel misunderstood, disconnected, or stuck in the same arguments, imagine finally understanding the hidden emotional language beneath your conflict and building a relationship where your differences truly strengthen your bond. My approach to couples therapy is attachment-focused, experiential, and transformative.
I specialize in understanding differences in attachment and communication styles and patterns, as well as each partner’s symbolic world and past experiences, as this inform their capacities and challenges in intimate and family relationships. Together, we translate these insights into greater emotional and physical intimacy, capacity for vulnerability and connection, and sense of true partnership and support.
Couples Therapy for Neurodivergent Couples
Many of the couples I work with include one or two partners who are neurodivergent, whether they have been diagnosed as a child or more recently as an adult, or only suspect they may be neurodivergent following a recent diagnosis of a child at home. Life in a neurodivergent household brings its own unique challenges, both in terms of pragmatic difficulties and in finding healing and support for what may be a lifetime of unnamed and unrecognized struggle.
I bring a specialized, neurodivergent-affirming approach to help you navigate differences in processing, sensory needs, communication and cognitive styles, and a real sense of learning how to see and appreciate each partner for the strengths and vitality they bring to the relationship.. My goal is to help you break free from repetitive cycles of conflict and disconnection, fostering an environment where both partners feel truly seen and heard. Imagine cultivating a partnership where differences transform from a sense of failure and aloneness to pathways to deeper connection, understanding and support.
AEDP for Individual Therapy
If you feel held back by old emotional wounds, constant self-criticism, dysregulation or a sense of emotional numbness, imagine tapping into a core sense of well-being and aliveness that empowers you to face life's challenges with courage. I utilize an experiential psychodynamic approach called AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy). AEDP is a therapeutic approach that is deeply compassionate, healing and transformative. It focuses on partnering with the client to undo their sense of aloneness, and move past attachment trauma towards a renewed sense of vitality and connection. As a Level II AEDP therapist, I am dedicated to creating a safe, deeply supportive therapeutic relationship that facilitates true healing.
Together, we explore how your individual history, attachment styles, past hurt and attachment wounds influence your present sense of self, your experiences and your relationships, enabling you to transform suffering into resilience, self-compassion.and vitality.
EMDR Therapy for Trauma
If past traumatic experiences keep intruding on your present life through flashbacks, anxiety, excessive rumination, avoidance or hypervigilance, imagine those memories finally settling into the past, losing their power to control your daily emotions and behavior.
As a trained EMDR therapist, I offer individual EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) sessions as a specialized, evidence-based treatment for trauma.
EMDR involves structured procedures that help clients process traumatic memories without requiring detailed discussions of the events. EMDR uses bilateral stimulation and a supportive holding environment, while focusing on distressing memories to facilitate the brain’s natural healing process, allowing traumatic memories to lose their emotional charge and impact. By integrating these experiences and reducing their emotional intensity, clients can move from feeling "stuck" in the past to embracing a path of healing and growth. This approach is particularly effective for managing PTSD symptoms and can often lead to quicker outcomes than traditional talk therapies.