Virtual Psychotherapy • Adults • CT • NY • NJ
Use the hour well.
Bring the part of your life that still takes more thought, feeling, or effort than it should.
I work in a way that makes the hour immediately useful and the work valuable long after therapy ends.
A REASON TO TAKE IT SERIOUSLY
You have thought about it long enough to know the problem is not a lack of effort.
The part that keeps returning is usually doing something important for you. It may be protecting you, preserving something you value, or helping you avoid something that once felt unbearable. Until that becomes clearer, it continues to influence decisions, relationships, and the way you experience yourself, even when you genuinely want something different.
IN THE HOUR
The conversation has direction.
I work with what is happening now, the role the difficulty has been playing, and what keeps making it feel necessary.
You leave with a more accurate understanding of the situation and more room to use your own judgment when it returns.
THE CONVERSATION
You do not have to make yourself simpler to be understood.
There is room for precision, contradiction, humor, uncertainty, and the parts of your story that only make sense in context.
WHAT YOU BEGIN TO NOTICE
The difference is usually easier to recognize in everyday life than in the session itself.
Decisions stay made.
Conversations require less rehearsal.
Limits feel less like abandoning someone.
You recognize sooner what belongs to you and what does not.
Disappointment becomes information instead of a verdict about who you are.
You spend less time waiting to feel completely certain before acting.
Your judgment becomes easier to use while life is happening.
OVER TIME
The change appears in ordinary places.
Decisions that once felt impossible, relationships that once felt inevitable, and ways of responding that once seemed to happen before you could choose become easier to recognize sooner and handle in ways that feel more honest, more sustainable, and more aligned with who you are.
ABOUT ANNA KEYLINA, LCSW
Clinical depth, clear judgment, and a real person in the room.
My work is shaped by years across inpatient psychiatry, outpatient community mental health, and private practice.
The privilege of working with people across so many different circumstances has made me continually aware of how much of a person’s life exists beyond what anyone can see at first glance.
You’ll probably feel understood in a way that is more precise than you’re used to.
Graduate training: New York University
Post graduate training: Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Licensed in Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey
I integrate insight-oriented, relational, developmental, and behavioral approaches.
PRACTICAL DETAILS
A private weekly hour.
Virtual psychotherapy for adults
FORMAT
Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey
LOCATION
SESSION
50 minutes
$350
FEE
Private pay. Superbills available for out-of-network reimbursement.
INSURANCE
SCHEDULE
Weekday daytime appointments
WHERE DO YOU RECOGNIZE YOURSELF?
Anxiety
Staying ahead of uncertainty can become more exhausting than uncertainty itself
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Relationships
You can say exactly what you mean and still leave feeling misunderstood
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Life Transitions
Even wanted changes can feel difficult when they require you to let go of a familiar version of yourself
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Perfectionism
Is often less about high standards and more about the consequences of making a mistake
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Depression
Often this looks less like falling apart and more like continuing to function while feeling absent from your own life
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Boundaries
Many people know what they need to say. The difficulty is carrying the guilt, anxiety, or conflict that may follow
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Self-Trust
When self-trust is low, reassurance from others can start to feel more convincing than your own judgment
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Burnout
Is not always a problem of workload. Often, it is the cumulative cost of carrying too much for too long
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Trauma
Trauma can also be what was missing: attention, consistency, emotional safety or the sense that your needs mattered
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CONSULTATION
Our first meeting is a full initial session.
The concerns that bring people here are rarely simple enough to understand in a brief introductory call. We use the full 50 minutes so the decision about continuing comes from an actual working conversation.
What Happens Next
Choose a time.
01
Select an available daytime appointment. Payment reserves the 50-minute session.
We use the time to look closely at what is happening, how it is affecting your life, and what would make the work worth continuing.
02
Bring what brought you here.
You leave with my clinical perspective, a recommendation about what would be useful from here, and enough experience of the conversation to decide whether my way of thinking feels useful enough to continue investing in.
03
Decide from experience.