Marc D. Spetalnik, LCSW

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### I’m a licensed psychotherapist on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

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’ve been in practice for over fifteen years, treating adult clients, couples, and their families: men and women across a wide range of ages, professional and personal orientations. Their concerns and problems span a very large spectrum of human experience. I also specialize in working with performing artists and in treating clients whose lives have been impacted by compulsions, addictions, and alcoholism.

I believe that no situation, dilemma or crisis in a person’s life is either too minor or too severe that my assistance as a trained, experienced professional cannot offer help. If you bring me problems that you feel nearly able to manage, but which could benefit from further understanding and attention, I can help you. If you bring a sense of being immobilized; if you are depressed, experience intense anxiety, or you are in a deep crisis, I can help you.

I hope that looking over this site will help you understand how and why I may be of service to you. If you have any further questions about my practice, please feel free to contact me.

# How can therapy help you?

Whether we are meeting for the first time, or we have met and worked together previously; whether we are beginning our conversation, or it is ongoing; whether you feel anxious or depressed, stressed by urgent matters or crisis, or you are feeling at ease and thinking clearly, there are certain questions that are likely to be following you into the space that we will share for the hour...
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### Performing Artists

Performing artists confront distinct challenges linked to their emotional vulnerability to their audience, and a range of other dilemmas associated to their career path. The years I have spent in training and participating in the performing arts world deeply inform my general clinical perspective and provide me with special resources of knowledge and attunement to clients who are themselves performing artists.

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### Compulsions/Addictions

I know and understand compulsions and addiction and I treat individuals at all levels of these most challenging conditions:

I help persons who still struggle within addiction-driven lives, perhaps unable to acknowledge its presence as such;

I help those contending with persistent compulsions related to acknowledged addiction, and those dealing with addiction’s complex repercussions;

I help those among the many who have been touched by living experience in recovery: Persons whose addiction has been transformed within its unique and rewarding pathways, and who seek to deepen their connection to themselves and others.

If you recognize any aspect of yourself among these persons and are seeking further help, please feel free to contact me.

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### Aos Brasileiros

Sou psicoterapeuta, LCSW, bilingue (Ingês-Português) com mais de 15 anos de experiencia no campo da saude mental. Eu trabalho com individuos, casais e familias.

Meu atendimento clínico abrange toda a gama de transtornos psicológicos, sobretudo os problemas do “Eu”,”relacionados à depressao e ansiedade (Ansiedade Generalizada, Ataque de Pânico e fobias) e Estresse Pós-Traumático....

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### About My Practice

I believe that when persons feel psychologically challenged or distressed, or they experience themselves as troubled; when they find themselves unable to move beyond a negative or painful situation or toward a promising future, then they have probably come to a needed reckoning and a promising shifting point in their lives. In my view, nothing in this separates them fundamentally from other gifted and capable persons who may not be seeking and receiving professional help at this moment.

Your difficulties in living do not define you, nor do they diminish the whole of your identity. Whatever the discomfort and pain they may cause, your problems have provided an opportunity for you to seek and receive help. I therefore view them as necessary guideposts, indispensable to the positive outcomes of our work.

Through the collaborative undertaking which is psychotherapy, I can guide you toward a better understanding of yourself and how you have lived; toward greater acceptance and valuation of your essence, and hence, a better fit within your life, present and future.

To learn more about my views on the practice of psychotherapy, please click the link below.

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### FAQs

If you are considering treatment with me you may have specific practical questions, as well as general concerns about my practice and my approach to therapy. You will find several discussions on this website which focus on topics in which I have particular interest and clinical experience; all reveal something of my approach to my work. Please also take a look at the FAQs I've put together for you, which may provide further helpful information. If you have additional questions, don't hesitate to contact me.

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