Women's Individual Psychotherapy

Relational psychotherapy for women exploring desire, agency, and recurring patterns in relationships

Many women seek therapy not because something is “wrong,” but because familiar patterns in relationships, work, or self-experience no longer feel livable. There may be a persistent sense of dissatisfaction, constraint, or quiet disconnection—difficult to articulate even when life appears outwardly stable or successful.

Often these experiences take shape relationally. They may emerge around intimacy, desire, conflict, caretaking, or the repeated feeling of being pulled into roles that feel limiting or misaligned. Such patterns are rarely solved through insight alone. They tend to require a space where experience can be slowed down and explored as it unfolds between two people, rather than analyzed from a distance.

My work with women is relational and depth-oriented. Rather than offering strategies or interpretations from outside, therapy attends closely to how emotional patterns live in the present—how desire and ambivalence coexist, how agency can feel obscured or deferred, and how ways of relating that were once adaptive may no longer serve. Over time, new forms of clarity, vitality, and self-experience can begin to emerge organically within the therapeutic relationship.


Areas Often Explored in Therapy

Women come to this work for many reasons, including:

 • Recurring relationship patterns that feel difficult to change

 • Questions of desire, agency, and self-definition

 • Feelings of constraint, over-adaptation, or emotional disconnection

 • Power, caretaking, and imbalance in intimate relationships

 • Identity shifts related to life transitions, motherhood, or loss

 • The emotional residue of past relationships or developmental experiences

These concerns are approached not as problems to be fixed, but as meaningful expressions of psychic life that deserve careful attention and understanding.


My Approach

I work collaboratively, with attention to both emotional depth and relational process. Therapy is not directed toward producing a particular outcome, but toward creating conditions where experience can be spoken, felt, and understood without pressure toward premature coherence or resolution.

This work often unfolds gradually. As patterns become visible and felt in real time, many women find themselves relating differently—not through effort or self-correction, but through a shift in how experience is held, recognized, and lived.


Therapy offers a space to explore intimacy, desire, and agency without having to collapse experience into roles, expectations, or explanations. Over time, many women find that what once felt repetitive or constraining begins to open into greater freedom, clarity, and emotional presence—within relationships and within themselves.

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

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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