Resilience is a dynamic process of moving forward.
It's not a trait, it's not an endpoint, but the muscles that help us get through the day. No matter where you are, the journey forward begins with a single step today.
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Amita K. Patel
Amita K. Patel, LCSW is a New York-based licensed psychotherapist & social worker specializing in trauma, resilience, and cognitive-behavioral interventions. Amita received her Masters’ degrees with honors and clinical training from New York University.
Meet Ollie
Amita offers Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) for Clients who may benefit from the addition of a four-legged friend in session.
Ollie, a 9-year-old shih-tzu/poodle mix, is a Therapy Dog certified by the Alliance of Therapy Dogs.
A trained therapy animal can provide a sense of calm, comfort, or safety. Clients who have worked with Amita & Ollie report increased ability to regulate their emotions, stability and grounding when discussing challenging subject matter, improved communication, connection, and trust. To learn whether this modality is right for you, contact Amita.
How I Help
What people say
Before working with Amita, I felt ‘stuck’ in many areas of my life. Though I had ideas about the type of life I wanted to live, I wasn’t making any progress in achieving any of it. Amita has been a blessing in helping me identify the ways in which I have been holding myself back. By providing valuable tools and insight, Amita has enabled me to prioritize my goals and create workable action plans to achieve them. I feel she has put me on the road to create the life I have always desired.
Equally as important, Amita is extremely supportive and compassionate. She is very easy to talk to, and genuinely cares about my success and well-being. I imagine she brings that same level of enthusiasm to each person she has the opportunity to help. I have no doubt that anyone working with Amita will find their life has significantly changed for the better and highly recommend her services.
Amita has a gift for working tirelessly and with profound integrity to align her own life alongside yours. Through her own exemplary honesty and humility, Amita meets you where you are instead of telling you where you should be. She has the ability to anticipate your opportunities for growth well before you have even gauged them, yet she doesn't push you to derive conclusions that you have not first and foremost arrived at yourself
She has helped me to realize things about myself on a deeper level, which has served to transform my life in tremendous ways. Her instinctive abilities allow her to see things from a different perspective, as she encourages deep personal introspection. She is passionately dedicated to helping people transform their lives to live from a place of true authenticity. She is a huge inspiration to me and I am blessed to have met her and been able to work with her.
Amita has helped me overcome a sense of overwhelm by teaching me to create effective, actionable lists. We worked on breaking down large, ambiguous goals into smaller (prioritized and achievable) steps. Amita’s guidance has helped me to become a better planner and to use my time more effectively, which has given me greater confidence in my ability to reach my goals!
Training for Professionals
Acute traumatic Incident processing
CID & A-TIP are brief interventions aimed to facilitate stabilization and recovery either during or after a critical incident, trauma, or distressing event.
Before working with Amita, everything seemed hard, every strategy would backfire- I was hitting walls constantly. I couldn't figure out what was holding me back. Amita helped me break this mess down into sizable chunks. She helped me to prioritize the right actions and tackle them one step at the time using tangible goals and effective, practical techniques. We defined achievable goals and daily tactics on how to reach them. I can proudly say that I am accomplishing all of my goals with enthusiasm and without stress!
Working with Amita is totally different - every week there is a concrete result. You feel like you are advancing. At the same time, these regular results were not superficial 'tricks’ - Amita really teaches you to drive the change from within.