Talya Halkin, M.A.A.T.

I believe that meaningful change begins with feeling understood and having the space to explore our experiences with curiosity and compassion. Together, we can explore the emotions, relationships, and patterns that may be contributing to difficulties, while discovering new ways of responding to ourselves and the people around us.

My approach is integrative, drawing on relational and psychodynamic perspectives, expressive arts therapy, and body awareness, with particular attention to the connections between emotional experience, the body, creativity, and relationships. Our work together may take place entirely through conversation, or, when appropriate and comfortable for you, incorporate imagery, movement, somatic awareness, creative expression, or other experiential approaches. What matters is finding a way of working that feels meaningful and helpful to you.

I work with women experiencing anxiety, low mood, stress, emotional exhaustion and burnout, relationship difficulties, and periods of uncertainty or change. I have a particular interest in the emotional challenges surrounding motherhood, parenting, and partnership, as well as the unique psychological concerns that women face in midlife and beyond. I also work with children and their parents around emotional regulation, behavioral and developmental challenges, and difficulties in family relationships. Depending on the child's needs, therapy may involve individual sessions, parent-child sessions, and parental guidance. Alongside my private practice, my work with women, parents and children in Israel’s public health sector had broadened and deepened my clinical experience.

I see my role as creating a safe, collaborative relationship in which you can feel free to bring the different parts of yourself, including feelings that may be difficult to understand or express. I view therapy not as a struggle against aspects of ourselves, but as a journey to become ourselves, trust our own resources, and believe in our power to choose – to connect, create, and love more fully. One of the most important lessons I have learned as a therapist is that healing occurs when we trust that we are not alone, that it is safe to receive the support of others, and to reach out into the world while coming home to ourselves.

Alongside individual therapy, I offer creative and experiential workshops for women, with a particular interest in midlife as a period of reflection, transition, and renewed possibilities for personal growth, professional development and self-expression.

Prior to training as a therapist, I earned a BA and MA from Columbia University in the City of New York, where my academic research focused on the intersection between psychology, somatic experience, and creative processes.