Todd Anderson, PhD, PsyD Licensed Psychoanalyst


Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis 
Telehealth Practice in New York City



Psychotherapy is a place to slow down experience rather than manage it.
I work relationally and analytically with individuals who sense that something important is present—but not yet fully sayable in their lives or relationships.

About the Practice and Dr. Anderson

 

 

 

I work with individuals whose emotional lives are complex, layered, or difficult to articulate—people navigating the subtle edges of experience where shame, desire, identity, or fragmentation take shape. My practice is relational and depth-oriented, offering a space to explore both familiar and unspoken aspects of inner life, especially when ordinary language feels insufficient.

Many people come to me because they find themselves living at psychological thresholds—where established identities no longer hold, previous therapy has stalled, or important aspects of experience remain unformulated. This includes individuals navigating sexuality, intimacy, nontraditional relationship structures, chronic illness, religious rupture, and other forms of psychic complexity. My work follows what is emerging, dissolving, or returning in the analytic encounter, without pressure toward premature clarity or reduction. 

 

Todd Anderson, PhD, PsyD, LP

"Anderson allows what is fragile, unformulated, and reverent to be held without being prematurely resolved.”
— Michael Eigen, PhD

Gay Men Therapist

Gay Men - Individual Therapy

Depth-oriented psychotherapy addressing shame, desire, intimacy, and identity within gay men’s lived experience.

Online Therapy

Therapy for Individuals with Previously Incomplete or Ineffective Therapy

For individuals who have done therapy before but feel something essential was never reached or fully held.

Sex Therapy

Out-of-Control Sexual Behavior - Individual Therapy

Relational work with compulsive or driven sexual patterns, focusing on meaning, agency, and integration rather than control.

Trauma Therapy

Recovery from Religious Trauma and Confusion - Individual Therapy

Psychotherapy for those navigating rupture, shame, or loss of meaning following religious injury or spiritual conflict.

Chronic Illness Therapy

Therapy for Individuals Coping with Chronic Physical Illnesses

Depth-oriented work exploring how ongoing illness reshapes identity, relationships, and one’s relationship to the body.

BDSM Therapy

BDSM/Kink and Sexual Minorities - Individual Therapy

Depth-oriented psychotherapy for individuals and couples whose erotic lives do not fit neatly into conventional frameworks.

Relational Therapy

Women who Feel Disempowered or Unfulfilled in Romantic Relationships

For women navigating recurring patterns of constraint, dissatisfaction, or disconnection in romantic relationships and intimate life.

Alongside these areas of specialization, I work with individuals navigating a wide range of emotional and psychological concerns, including:
  • Depression
  • Anxiety
  • Dissociation and Depersonalization
  • Cyclothymia and Bipolar Disorders
  • Panic Disorder
  • Addictions and Compulsions (using harm reduction or abstinence-based approaches, depending on your goals and needs)
  • Trauma (of any sort and from any phase of life)
  • Childhood Sexual Abuse
  • Codependency
  • Social Anxiety and Isolation
  • Emotional Dysregulation
  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mourning
  • Career Concerns and Transitions
  • Life Transitions
  • Relationship Issues
  • Academic Issues
  • Concerns of Musicians and Artists
  • General Feelings of being "stuck" or "dissatisfied" with life
  • Personality Disorders, including Narcissism and Borderline Personality

Reach Out Today

If you’re considering psychotherapy and want to explore whether this work is a fit, you’re welcome to reach out.

Phone: (347) 815-7780
Email: todd@toddandersonphd.com


“Anderson writes not to our ‘churches of reason,’ but from within the clinical hour itself. He invites us to dwell in contradiction—not to interpret or resolve, but to inhabit. This is psychoanalysis at its most human.”
— Philip Ringstrom, PhD

Manhattan Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

Todd Anderson, PhD, PsyD, LP is a psychoanalyst and writer whose work is rooted in a contemporary relational and depth-oriented approach to the psyche. He is the author of several books in Routledge’s Psychoanalysis in a New Key series, with a focus on recursive experience, psychic margins, and the unspoken dimensions of clinical life—particularly as they unfold across therapeutic relationships. His telehealth practice engages the complexities of queer life, sexuality, trauma, chronic illness, and unformulated experience, offering patients a space for thoughtful and nuanced exploration of their emotional worlds.

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