Carlos Encalada, LCSW, based in New York City, carlos.encalada@protonmail.com

The city, the world, and your life can be a big place to get lost in. Reaching out to anyone can be scary. Listening and learning how you communicate so we can best understand what your experience is like is a big part of therapy. I think finding lightness and humor in the midst of the heavy challenges of life to be important ways to make therapy a meaningful home for healing, exploration, and reclaiming agency in life.

My experience as a psychotherapist is mostly with adults, but I am expanding to working with children, families, and couples. Supporting children, adolescents, teenagers, emerging adults, and beyond requires sensitivity to issues around development, emotion regulation, expression, and presence. I use deep attention, attunement, and humor to support healing.

I practice psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy. I've had six years of training in psychoanalysis, and continue that training now. This will lead to a full designation as a child and adult psychoanalyst. I continually work to uncover my own unconscious processes so that we can fully uncover and understand yours and discern their impact in your life.