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Melissa Daum, LMFT

Stress, Anxiety Relationships Eating disorders Self esteem, Motivation Coping with life changes
Video Phone Live Chat Messaging

About me

I am licensed in New York with 10 years of professional work experience. I have experience in helping clients with stress and anxiety, relationship issues, eating disorders, creative conflicts, & motivation, self esteem, and confidence. My therapeutic work is deeply informed by psychoanalytic psychotherapy and its emphasis on not merely alleviating symptoms, but discovering the deeply rooted, often unconscious mechanisms at work that generate our patterns — patterns that have gotten us where we are today, yet also may prevent us from moving forward.



By participating in talk therapy, we may discover that the way you’ve been telling your story, both to yourself and others, is only one version. I'm interested in listening closely to your thoughts, habits, dreams, desires, avoidances, and symptoms, and together we may hear something else entirely. Therapy can be a space where you become curious about these stories too, the way they coexist and even conflict, allowing a more integrated experience to take hold. Change at this level can be profoundly long lasting and creatively fulfilling.

Professional experience

10yrs in practice
Stress, Anxiety Relationships Eating disorders Self esteem, Motivation Coping with life changes

Additional areas of focus: Grief, Intimacy-related issues, Depression, Compassion fatigue, Attachment issues, Body image, Communication problems, Eating and Food-Related Issues, Family of Origin Issues, Fertility Issues, Forgiveness, Guilt and shame, Life purpose, Men's issues, Pregnancy and childbirth, Self-love, Women's issues, Young Adult Issues

Services offered

Video
Phone
Live Chat
Messaging

License information

NY LMFT 001297