Ashanti Palatnik, LMFT

Ashanti Palatnik is a licensed marriage and family therapist - New York LMFT with seven years of clinical experience. She works with adults dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, and struggles around self-esteem and addiction. Ashanti also lists codependency among her focus areas and helps people who feel stuck putting others first.

She uses practical, evidence-informed methods to help people notice patterns and try different responses. Sessions often include looking at how attachment and early family experiences shape current reactions. Ashanti blends techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and mindfulness to address difficult emotions and behavior patterns.

People who see her often want clearer communication, better emotional regulation, or relief from intense worry and rumination. She works with issues such as grief, intimacy-related concerns, trauma and abuse, and substance use. Her practice includes attention to abandonment fears, body image, dissociation, and family of origin problems.

Ashanti explains tools in straightforward language and practices motivational interviewing to help people consider change at their own pace. Sessions can include skills practice, examining beliefs that keep someone stuck, and setting small, doable goals. She brings a multicultural and intersectional perspective to therapy and attends to identity in ways clients name as important.

Clients begin by describing what feels most urgent and then try short experiments between sessions. Ashanti emphasizes clear steps people can take to test new ways of relating, communicate boundaries, and manage impulses and strong emotions.

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