Psychotherapy in East Setauket, NY
Compassionate, evidence-based therapy for adults, teens, and children, with in-person care in East Setauket and secure telehealth options for eligible patients.
At Resilience Psychiatry, psychotherapy is part of a comprehensive approach to mental health care. Sessions help patients explore thoughts, emotions, relationships, stress patterns, and coping strategies.
Whether you are struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship stress, or major life changes, therapy offers a safe, supportive place to begin working toward balance and resilience.
What Is Psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy, often called talk therapy, is a collaborative process between you and your mental health provider.
Through structured conversation and evidence-based techniques, psychotherapy can help you better understand patterns, develop coping strategies, improve relationships, and strengthen emotional resilience.
Therapy Can Help You
- Identify patterns of thinking and behavior that cause distress
- Build coping strategies for stress, anxiety, or mood shifts
- Improve relationships and communication
- Strengthen emotional resilience and problem-solving skills
- Understand triggers, emotions, and recurring patterns
- Maintain progress over time through regular follow-up
Psychotherapy may support patients working through anxiety, depression, stress, trauma, grief, relationships, and major life changes.
Conditions We Support Through Psychotherapy
Therapy may be part of care for many mental health and life challenges. The right approach depends on your symptoms, goals, age, diagnosis, and clinical needs.
- Anxiety and panic disorders
- Depression and mood issues
- PTSD and trauma recovery
- OCD and intrusive thoughts
- Adjustment difficulties and life transitions
- Behavioral and relationship struggles
- Stress related to school, work, or caregiving
Our Psychotherapy Approach
Psychotherapy at Resilience Psychiatry blends clinical understanding with human connection.
Understand the Pattern
Therapy can help identify recurring thoughts, emotions, behaviors, relationship patterns, and stress responses.
Build Coping Skills
Sessions may focus on practical tools for anxiety, mood shifts, stress, communication, and emotional regulation.
Support Change
Therapy helps create realistic strategies for change that fit your life, values, relationships, and goals.
Coordinate Care
When clinically appropriate, therapy can be coordinated with psychiatric medication management.
CBT and Integrative Psychotherapy
We use approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and integrative psychotherapy, adapting each session to your goals and needs.
For some patients, therapy may focus on identifying and reframing unhelpful thoughts. For others, it may focus on emotions, relationships, behavior patterns, acceptance, motivation, or major transitions.
Sessions may include structured conversation, coping tools, progress review, and next steps between visits.
Who Provides Psychotherapy
Therapy provider fit depends on age, location, treatment goals, diagnosis, and clinical needs.
Dr. Jessica Carbajal Cáceda, MD
Provides child, adolescent, and family-centered psychiatric care, with therapy support when clinically appropriate.
Dr. Ricardo Cáceda, MD, PhD
Provides psychotherapy-informed psychiatric care for adults focused on mood disorders, stress, and trauma.
Alyssa Wolfe, LMSW
Provides individual psychotherapy through telehealth in New York for clients age 13 and older, with coordinated care when indicated.
Therapy can support communication, connection, family stress, caregiving stress, and relationship patterns.
Individual, Youth, and Family-Centered Support
Psychotherapy needs can look different for adults, teens, and children. Some patients need individual therapy. Others may benefit from family involvement, parent guidance, coordinated medication management, or collaboration with other supports.
For children and teens, care may involve parents or caregivers when appropriate. For adults, therapy may focus on mood, anxiety, trauma, relationships, stress, grief, or life transitions.
What to Expect
Your initial evaluation takes about 60 minutes and covers your background, what you are struggling with, and what you want from treatment.
Ongoing therapy sessions run 55 to 60 minutes and may include structured conversation, coping tools, and progress review.
Therapy may also be integrated with medication management if clinically appropriate.
Session Goals May Include
- Understand the root of current challenges
- Build emotional awareness and resilience
- Create realistic strategies for change
- Practice coping skills between sessions
- Maintain progress over time through regular follow-ups
Telehealth and Therapy Access
Psychotherapy may be offered in person or through secure telehealth depending on provider fit, patient location, age, and clinical needs.
Alyssa Wolfe, LMSW provides individual psychotherapy through telehealth in New York for clients age 13 and older. Psychiatric providers may offer telepsychiatry for eligible patients in New York and Florida.
Related Care Options
Psychotherapy may be used alone or alongside evaluation, medication management, or condition-specific treatment planning.
Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to common questions about psychotherapy, online therapy, children and teens, and coordinated care.
What is the difference between psychotherapy and counseling?
Psychotherapy is often called talk therapy. At Resilience Psychiatry, it is a collaborative process between you and your mental health provider using structured conversation and evidence-based techniques to help with thoughts, emotions, patterns, relationships, coping skills, and resilience.
Do you provide therapy for children and teens?
Yes. The practice provides psychotherapy support for children and teenagers, with provider fit based on age, location, symptoms, family needs, and clinical appropriateness.
Can therapy be done online?
Yes. Therapy may be available online depending on the provider, patient location, age, and clinical needs. Alyssa Wolfe, LMSW provides individual psychotherapy through telehealth in New York for clients age 13 and older.
Can psychotherapy be combined with medication management?
Yes. Therapy may be integrated with medication management when clinically appropriate. This can help patients receive coordinated care for symptoms, coping skills, medication response, and long-term treatment goals.
How long are therapy sessions?
Your first session is about 60 minutes. Ongoing therapy sessions run 55 to 60 minutes.
Do you accept insurance for therapy?
Resilience Psychiatry is an out-of-network practice. We do not participate in insurance panels, and we provide superbills so you can seek reimbursement through your plan's out-of-network benefits.
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Start the Conversation Today
Psychotherapy can help you better understand yourself, build coping skills, and take practical steps toward emotional resilience.
Visit Resilience Psychiatry in East Setauket
Appointments are available in person at the East Setauket office and through telepsychiatry for eligible patients.
Need urgent help?
This practice is not an emergency service. If you or someone you love is in danger, call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, or call 911.
For local 24/7 support in Suffolk County, call (631) 952-3333.