Jackson Melnick, LICSW

I am able to help facilitate revelation of your self through an analysis of your desires.

I have studied institutionally at Deep Springs College, Brown University, Yale University and The University of Chicago. More importantly, I have had a lifelong interest in psychotherapy and as it presents across psychology, art and philosophy.

My training as a social worker in particular has helped me come to see the need for practical and straightforward ways to advocate for yourself in an antagonist and indifferent world. I have practiced clinical social work both in private practice and in adult and children's hospital emergency departments.

At worst, therapy creates a validating environment where you can find temporary relief from frustration, boredom or despair. At best, it initiates a process of understanding your self and in turn being given the opportunity to transform the life that self is in.

I do not try to fit you into some system of therapy that I have decided from a deluded sense of scientific expertise ought to work for you. Instead, I listen for what your desires are saying - from both your conscious and unconscious - and do my best to help you speak back to them. If a meaningful conversation starts, therapy becomes worthwhile. ACT, DBT, and CBT (behavioral therapies) might be used to promote self advocacy but only inasmuch as they are symbiotic with a self analysis.

Please do not hesitate to get in touch.