KATHRYN HANSZ, LCSW
Making Space
MAKING SPACE
Kathryn Hansz, LCSW
Internal Family Systems (IFS), Level 3 trained psychotherapist
There is no one who comes here who does not know that this is a true map of the world, with love there in the center, making space for us all.
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ABOUT ME
Kathryn Hansz, LCSW
Kathryn Hansz, LCSW, is an experienced, attachment-focused clinician specializing in complex trauma, sexual abuse, addictions, and eating disorders. Additionally, she has a background in working with artists, musicians, creatives, and Highly Sensitive People (HSP).
Kathryn received her Master's degree, with honors, from NYU Silver School of Social Work and is currently a level 3 trained Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapist, undergoing the certification process in Spring of 2024. Kathryn has personally trained with Richard Schwartz, Ph.D.; Bessel VanderKolk, Ph.D; Pamela Krause, LCSW; Seth Kopald, Ph.D; Loch Kelly, Mdiv, LCSW; and Paige Kelly, LCSW. Additionally, Kathryn has over 20 years of extensive mindfulness and meditation training in the Soto Zen lineage. She is currently a student of Rupert Spira and Pamela Wilson and utilizes a compassion-based lens in all her interventions and treatment approaches.
Kathryn has worked in a variety of treatment settings including private practice, training institutes, community engagement agencies, youth programming, and 12-step recovery communities. Kathryn brings strong expertise in complex trauma, group work, couples work, sexuality, gender identity, transgender identity, anxiety, depression, addiction, and personality disorders.
Kathryn integrates a unique spiritual lens in her treatment and intervention planning that invites clients to widen their field of compassion not only toward themselves but also toward the smaller and larger worlds around them. Kathryn is passionate about doing this by incorporating the Internal Family Systems (IFS) method, as well as other somatic, relational, and intersubjective practices, into attachment-focused, psychodynamic trauma-focused treatment.
HEALING IS, INTIMACY
For me, therapy is all about making space to show up as we are, wherever we are. I seek to create space, for you and for me, and for us, to authentically get to know one other. In this relationship, healing has space to simply arise. It does not need to be chased. It does not need to be found. It is simply there, present, available, alive. We do not need to be fixed.
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Access to healing in the relational field is about seeing and being seen. It's about hearing and being heard. It’s about loving and being loved -- from the deep grace of the unconditional. From this place, authentic healing has the capacity to liberate our burdens and transform how we relate to life and to ourselves. Healing is, intimacy.
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I utilize a uniquely relational, spiritual, and attachment-focused approach in my clinical practice, encouraging the cultivation of genuine self-compassion and self-expression. I also specialize in trauma work and primarily utilize the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model in order to facilitate a process of self-healing. For more about IFS click here.
CONTACT ME
Contact me today to schedule a consultation or session.
27 W 20th St., Suite 401
NYC 10011