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Holistic Psychotherapy & Healing

What Clients Learn

✓ Self-awareness tools to recognize patterns & emotional triggers
✓ Practical coping strategies for anxiety, stress, and difficult emotions
✓ Mind-body connection awareness: Tuning in and listening to yourself
✓ Compassionate self-talk that replaces inner criticism with kindness
✓ Boundary-setting skills for healthier relationships and self-protection
✓ Spiritual integration practices that honor your unique beliefs
✓ Emotional regulation strategies for navigating intense feelings
✓ Authentic self-expression that honors your true values and desires

Find the Right Support

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Individual Therapy

Holistic Psychotherapy

Support for anxiety, burnout, life transitions, relationships, identity exploration, and emotional well-being.

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Individual Therapy

Grief Counseling

Compassionate therapy for loss, major life changes, anticipatory grief, and emotional healing after difficult experiences.

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Individual Therapy

Therapy for Artists & Creative Souls

Reconnect with creativity, overcome burnout, perfectionism, self-doubt, and creative blocks.

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Individual Therapy

Spiritual Guidance

Integrate spirituality, intuition, mindfulness, and personal meaning into your healing journey.

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Individual Therapy

Energy Healing

Remote energy healing sessions to bring a sense of peace and calm, gently clear stuck energy, and improve balance and wellness.

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Autism Support

Therapy & Coaching for Autistic Adults

Neuroaffirming support for autistic adults navigating relationships, work, sensory challenges, burnout, and emotional well-being.

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Autism Support

Autism Support for Parents & Families

Helping families better understand autism while building stronger communication, confidence.

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Autism Support

Tailored Behavior Support

Personalized Behavior support using compassionate, strengths-based approaches for daily life and development.

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Autism Support

Autistic Burnout Support

Support for autistic adults (and adults who wonder if they might be autistic) to recover from autistic burnout and prevent future burnouts.

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Autism Training

Autism Training for Parents & Families

Practical strategies and tools to support your child with confidence and understanding.

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Autism Training

Autism Training for Teachers in NY

Classroom strategies, inclusion supports, and neuroaffirming teaching practices.

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Autism Training

Autism Training for Therapists in NY

Advanced training for clinicians to support autistic clients with evidence-based approaches.

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Start Your Transformation

Experience a compassionate approach that honors your mind, body, and spirit. Find the tools to navigate life’s transitions, connect to healing, and step into your most authentic self through traditional therapy infused with holistic wisdom.

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Understanding Holistic Psychotherapy

Holistic psychotherapy recognizes that you are more than your symptoms. You’re a complete person with interconnected emotional, physical, and spiritual dimensions.

This approach combines traditional therapeutic techniques with an understanding of energy, intuition, and the deeper aspects of human experience…

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Rather than simply treating problems, holistic psychotherapy explores the root causes of distress while honoring your unique path to wellness. It’s a collaborative process where you’re recognized as the expert in your own life, with therapy serving as a supportive space to reconnect with your inherent capacity for healing, growth, and authentic self-expression.

What You Can Expect

In therapy, you can find support during times of struggle or challenge. It can also be a space to uncover your authentic strengths and gifts, and the ways in which you connect to healing and joy.

Therapy is a space to process your own thoughts, feelings, and experiences without judgment…

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Holistic psychotherapy recognizes that you are more than your symptoms. You’re a complete person with interconnected emotional, physical, and spiritual dimensions. This approach combines traditional therapeutic techniques with an understanding of energy, intuition, and the deeper aspects of human experience.

Rather than simply treating problems, holistic psychotherapy explores the root causes of distress while honoring your unique path to wellness. It’s a collaborative process where you’re recognized as the expert in your own life, with therapy serving as a supportive space to reconnect with your inherent capacity for healing, growth, and authentic self-expression.

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Sharon Kaye O’Connor, LCSW, autistic therapist and holistic psychotherapist in NYC, smiling in a black sweater on a red-brick New York City street

About Me

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Why Come To Therapy?

Life brings seasons of uncertainty, transition, and challenge and therapy offers a grounded space to navigate them with clarity and support. Here are some areas I frequently work in:

Life Transitions

Career changes, relocations, relationship shifts, identity evolution

Anxiety

Overwhelm, worry, panic, social anxiety, generalized anxiety

Spirituality

Finding a spiritual path, integrating spiritual experiences, exploring beliefs, spiritual awakening

Grief and Loss

Processing death, loss of relationships, loss of identity or dreams

Autistic Identity & Burnout

Embracing neurodivergent identity, recovering from burnout

Finding Your Life Path

Purpose, calling, meaning-making, career alignment

In Their Words

Reflections from individuals and families who have worked with Sharon, shared in their own words.

Options And Booking

Individual Therapy Sessions are currently conducted remotely via phone, and are available anywhere within New York State.

Insurances Accepted: Blue Cross Blue Shield (excluding Medicaid, Managed Care and Exchange Plans), Aetna, Medicare.
Sliding Scale: Available on a limited basis

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45-minute sessions

Session Format

Duration: 45-minute sessions
Frequency: Weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly (based on your needs)
Platform: Phone, Spruce App or Signal App

Paying Without Insurance?

If you are paying for psychotherapy sessions yourself, are uninsured, or are not using insurance (including sliding-scale psychotherapy sessions), you can request a Good Faith Estimate at any time through the contact page. You will receive it in writing before your first session. Learn about your right to a Good Faith Estimate.

Not Sure Where to Start?

You don’t need to have everything figured out before reaching out.
If you’re unsure which type of support fits best, we can talk it through and take the next step together.