
Checa-Rosen
Maria
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with
Mindfulness-based Integration
M.A., Ed.M, L.C.S.W
I am a bilingual psychotherapist with more than 35 years of clinical experience working with adults, couples, and families. I help people understand the deeper patterns that shape their emotional lives and relationships, while offering practical tools to manage anxiety, regulate moods, improve communication, and cope with distress when feelings become overwhelming.
Are you feeling persistently stuck — caught in recurring cycles of anxiety or depression, self-criticism, loneliness, or painful relational patterns? Do you find yourself sacrificing your own needs to preserve connection, or reacting in ways that are relationally disruptive — leaving you chronically angry, shut down, confused, or repeating patterns you do not fully understand?
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Most individuals, regardless of symptoms, come to therapy seeking practical tools to manage anxiety, regulate mood, or improve communication. Developing the skills for emotional regulation, reflective capacity, and relational effectiveness is an active and important part of my work. Symptom relief and stabilization matter.
At the same time, lasting change requires more than coping strategies alone. My work is grounded in a psychodynamic and developmental framework that examines how early attachment relationships, unconscious conflicts, and internalized relational patterns shape current emotional life. As we strengthen regulation and insight, we also work toward deeper psychological integration -fostering greater self-cohesion, emotional flexibility, and the capacity for more stable and satisfying relationships.

Call me at 646-320-9910 if you have any questions or would like to schedule an appointment.

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself
just as I am, then I can change"
– Carl Rogers





