On Mindfulness and Embodiment, Psychodynamic Approaches with a Somatic Focus
Mindfulness in Buddhist practice resonates with concepts of evenly hovering attention and free association, a process likened by Freud to a passenger viewing their own associations through a moving train window. We develop the ability through mindfulness to let certain thoughts be without giving them extra life. Subjects therefore change their state of embodiment and become more open to unconscious meaning. Psychodynamically, one's internalized objects of blame and rebuke can dissolve over time and a good, loving internal presence/object found. Trauma therapy can help with such healing.
Embodiment is explored, in terms of reflecting on the mind's continual embodiment --in VIpassana mediation, an ever- deeper attunement to the body's sensations is practiced--and in allowing the embodiment of core needs, such as integrity or self-love, without blocks, to ease the pain of inauthenticity, seeking dynamic truth instead.
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Dr. Dylan Marks, Private Practice
I offer individual psychotherapy in-person and online at 303 Fifth Avenue. I work with adolescents and young adults on behavioral regulation and healthy self-expression, discovering who they want to be (and in certain ways, can't help being) and how to navigate the world, what that means to them. I also work with older adults on coming to terms with loss and their own conflicts regarding present relationships and themselves.
I treat depression and anxiety, as well as bipolarity, OCD, addiction, ADHD, autism, schizoid and personality disorders. I help people in repairing or leaving relationships, gaining some freedom from addiction and grief. I work as well with couples on recognizing their dynamic needs.
I utilize skills and exercises from CBT and DBT when needed, also offering EMDR, an effective trauma therapy with a somatic basis.
My specialties include adolescence, matters of spirituality, working with relationship and sexual difficulties/opportunities for growth, the search for meaning in young adulthood, behavioral and cognitive change addressing self-esteem, families' systemic dysfunctions and abuse, conflicts at work, PTSD/trauma theory, and struggles with one's own queerness and gender concepts.
Mindfulness is utilized for behavioral and perspectival change. Playfulness with imaginative spontaneity is helpful when it can be freed up; thus, space is created for the patient's searching of their own vital truths and repairing through them in a holding environment.
I accept most major insurance, including Anthem (BCBS), Aetna, Cigna, United Healthcare, Carelon Health and Medicare with a sliding scale outside of insurance.