Dr. Leanne Domash

If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing.

— African proverb

I’m here to help you develop your creativity to solve life’s problems.

I’ve been in practice for over 35 years. I work with unconscious processes through exploration of the therapeutic relationship, free association, and in working with dreams.

Dreams are a great avenue for accessing unconscious patterns creating difficulty. I am trained in a specific technique of dream work called Embodied Imagination. This technique facilitates creativity and helps patients break through barriers and blocks they feel within themselves. In this method, the therapist helps the patient “enter” the dream. The therapist guides the patient to embody, that is feel in her body, several key images in the dream, helping us become more aware, more self-reflective and more able to change.

I have a specialty in helping creatives to overcome their blocks. I work with adults, both individually and in groups, and with children.

Your comfort and style drive the form of therapy.

I am versed in many forms of therapy, and I work to create the best possible synthesis for you. Let me explain the components I work with as we design your therapy together.

Embodied Imagination

An embodied form of dreamwork that helps expand the imagination, accept disowned part of the self, and create new solutions to problems.

Relational

Exploration of the therapeutic relationship in mutual collaboration. You learn about problematic emotional and behavioral patterns and how to change them.

Existential

Stresses the importance of taking responsibility for your actions and beliefs. Only you can change you.

Cognitive Behavioral

Identifies negative thinking patterns and gives tools to challenge and change them.

Freudian

Focuses on early childhood memories and working with dreams. Helps make unconscious feelings conscious so you can work through what may be blocking you.

‘Formulate the unformulated.’

In creating an accepting atmosphere, I want each patient and supervisee to develop his/her own voice. Most importantly, I help both patients and supervisees develop their intuition, take risks and, to use DB Stern’s words, ‘formulate the unformulated.’

I believe in gaining insight into psychotherapy by studying other fields, which frequently gives new perspectives on old problems. I have recently published a series of articles integrating neuroscience, spirituality, and art with psychoanalysis. Among many topics, I have lectured and written on the creative process, dreamwork, moments of emotional insight in psychoanalysis, and the psychology of women and parenthood.

A graduate of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, I am now a Clinical Consultant for the program. I am also Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, New York, NY. and Voluntary Psychologist, Mt. Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center.