Alissa Appel Jelveh, LCSW, MA

I am a Columbia University-trained psychotherapist with over 13 years of experience. I believe that we begin to heal through relationships.

I work with individuals to bring choice back to their lives. I also work with couples with issues ranging from communication, infidelity, money issues, persistent arguing, and sexual incompatibilities. My background is in working with adult and children trauma survivors at the Safe Horizon Counseling Center. I have postgraduate training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. I hold a three year postgraduate certificate in psychoanalytically oriented couple therapy. I also have extensive training in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples, which is an approach that emphasizes uncovering the emotions behind behaviors. I am on the faculty in the Couple Therapy program at Training Institute for Mental Health, where I teach and supervise. Additionally, I am adjunct faculty at New York University, Silver School of Social Work. I own the group practice, Manhattan Therapy Individuals and Couples, LCSW PLLC where I lead and supervise a team of psychotherapists providing individual and couple therapy.

My approach is warm and empathic. I work with your goals and we go at your pace. We will collaborate to better understand your experience and perspective, and begin to connect to some of the emotions that are underneath. I see our work together as a putting language to your internal experience, giving it form and structure, and locating the meaning for you.

Before I became a therapist, I received undergraduate and graduate degrees in English. I believe we tell a story to ourselves about ourselves. Part of what we will do in therapy is to discover the story you have told about yourself, and craft the story of your life ahead.

While my main center of practice is in Greenwich Village, I am also licensed in New Jersey where I provide telehealth services to individuals and couples.