Trauma Therapy + Life Strategy
for people who carry a lot
PAAPOY supports adults across New York State who carry a lot, whether that comes from work pressure, caregiving, identity stress, trauma, or a major life transition.
EMDR therapy and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy available when clinically appropriate.
What We Do
We offer therapy, life strategy sessions, and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy support for individuals. We also work with organizations to build healing-centered cultures and leadership practices.
Our approach is trauma-informed, culturally grounded, and designed for people who need more than surface-level solutions.
Who This Is For
This work is for people who are tired of pretending everything is fine. People who are navigating burnout, grief, identity shifts, or the quiet weight of doing too much for too long.
It is for leaders who want to lead differently. For organizers who need space to process. For anyone who has been told to "just push through" but knows there has to be another way.
Why PAAPOY Exists
PAAPOY was built on a simple belief: your anxiety, trauma, and chronic stress are not personal failings. They are often rational responses to real conditions, such as workplace harm, identity-based barriers, or systems that demand more than anyone should bear.
Many people are not in crisis. They are exhausted. They are managing, functioning, and showing up, while something inside them continues to sound the alarm.
You might be the person everyone depends on, the one who solves problems, and the one who quietly runs out of bandwidth.
Traditional therapy often stops at thoughts and feelings. Our approach goes further. We identify what is happening both inside you and around you. We respect your internal experiences and the external conditions that influence them.
You are not broken. The world is complicated. PAAPOY was created to work with that reality, not ignore it.
The Gap PAAPOY Fills
Some therapy focuses only on symptoms. Some coaching ignores trauma and nervous system reality. PAAPOY bridges both. We treat trauma and anxiety with evidence-based methods, and we make room for the real-world conditions shaping your life, including power, culture, and systems.
Care That Honors Your Whole Reality
PAAPOY is trauma-informed and culturally responsive. We understand that stress does not happen in a vacuum. Discrimination, systemic barriers, and identity-based harm are real, and they affect your nervous system.
If you are navigating workplace dynamics, structural inequities, or the toll of marginalized identities, we will not minimize those realities. This is care grounded in both clinical evidence and real-world context.
How We Work
Our approach combines evidence-based trauma therapies with a structural lens. Your nervous system responses are logical reactions to real pressures, not defects to be fixed.
In sessions, we move at a pace that respects your body and your capacity. Sometimes that means focused trauma processing through EMDR or KAP. Other times, it means making sense of workplace harm, family patterns, or how a tech-saturated world is affecting your sleep, focus, and sense of connection.
We always return to the same question: What helps you feel more grounded and more free to choose your next steps?
Three principles guide the work:
- Your experience in context, not isolated as a personal problem
- Tools you can actually use between sessions
- Relief now and lasting change, not one or the other
Who We Work With
You might be a good fit if:
- You are a high-responsibility professional, caregiver, or the one everyone calls first
- You are navigating anxiety, trauma, PTSD, or chronic stress that traditional therapy has not touched
- You are dealing with workplace harm, identity-based stress, or structural barriers that others do not see
- You are in ketamine treatment or considering KAP and want thoughtful integration support
- You want therapy that does not ignore power, culture, and systems
We provide therapy to adults located in New York State.
What Changes When This Works
This is not about becoming a different person. It is about getting enough support that your system calms, boundaries feel possible, and life stops feeling like constant triage.
You may start to notice shifts like:
- Your body spends less time on high alert, even when life is still demanding
- You can set a boundary without the crash afterward, or the need to over-explain
- Sleep, focus, and emotional regulation start coming back online
- You can name what is happening at work, in your family, or in culture without minimizing yourself
- You make decisions from steadiness, not survival
These are not promises. They are common patterns when the work is a strong fit.
About the Founder
PAAPOY was founded by a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in New York with more than 10 years of experience supporting adults through anxiety, PTSD, workplace harm, and complex life transitions.
Clinical training includes EMDR therapy, Somatic Experiencing, ketamine assisted psychotherapy, and psychodynamic therapy. We provide care for clients throughout New York State, with limited in-person availability in NYC.
What shapes this work most is a lived understanding of layered pressure, high-responsibility roles, structural barriers, and systems that reward overextension. This is not theoretical. It is designed to be useful in your actual life.
The practice is growing intentionally. Over time, PAAPOY will expand to include carefully selected clinicians who share this approach and standard of care.
If This Sounds Like You
You do not have to carry everything alone or pretend it is not heavy. We can start with a single conversation to see if this work is a good fit.
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