Hi! I’m Dr. Rakhel Shapiro. I’m really looking forward to getting to know you!

I’m a clinical psychologist (PhD) and IFS therapist. I’m also a meditation facilitator, writer, and movement artist. I specialize in helping people clarify desire, build self-trust, and heal attachment trauma.

Many of my clients are thoughtful, accomplished people who want to live more authentically and creatively.

I use Internal Family Systems (IFS) and relational approaches to help you:

• Develop a grounded, compassionate relationship with yourself

• Understand and unburden protective patterns like people-pleasing, self-denial, and feeling outsized responsibility

• Heal trauma from past relationships — in childhood and adulthood

• Experience more intimacy and connection with yourself and others

• Reconnect with desire, pleasure, and authentic motivation

• Support creative and visionary parts of you

• Build a felt sense of safety and self-trust

This is about helping you listen to yourself and trust yourself more fully, so you can live more fully

Individual Internal Family Systems therapy in New York for attachment trauma, and reconnecting with yourself.

A free, no pressure conversation to explore if we’re a good fit

Many people struggle to know what they want, trust their inner voice, or prioritize their own needs. You might notice people-pleasing, self-doubt, or disconnection from your desires — even after years of growth or therapy.

This work helps you listen inward, build self-trust, and experience that you get to be who you are and want what you want.

You may be a good fit for this work if you:

• Long for a deeper sense of security and grounding within yourself

• Want to heal developmental or attachment trauma

• Grew up with emotional neglect

• Struggle to know — or trust — what you want or what brings you pleasure

• Keep repeating painful relationship patterns

• Tend to people-please or override your own needs

• Fell like you don’t know how to listen to yourself

• Want support pursuing creative or artist parts of yourself

• Want a therapist who understands your meditation practice

• Want a sex-positive, pleasure-positive therapist

• Have done therapy and personal growth work, but still feel something is stuck or unresolved, or like you aren’t living fully

Clients often leave this work with:

• A deeper sense of inner security

• Greater clarity about what they want and enjoy

• A deeper sense of understanding and compassion for themselves

• More intimacy and satisfaction in their relationships

• More permission to pursue pleasure and meaning

• Reduced shame around desires and needs

• Stronger boundaries and self-advocacy

• Renewed creativity and aliveness

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If you’re curious to explore working together, the next step is a free 25-minute intro call. We’ll talk about what you’re wanting, what feels stuck, and whether working together feels right.