Ashanti PalatnikLMFT

Ashanti Palatnik is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in New York. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, stress, and low self-esteem. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at helping clients feel understood and make steady progress.

She uses practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people sort through painful feelings. Sessions often include learning new coping skills, noticing unhelpful thinking patterns, and building healthier ways of relating to others. The work is paced to match each person's needs and comfort level.

Ashanti also pays close attention to relationships and attachment patterns. That means she looks at how early connections and current relationship dynamics shape reactions to stress, grief, and intimacy concerns. She helps people see patterns that keep them stuck and try different ways of connecting.

She draws on methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, dialectical skills, motivational interviewing, and narrative work to meet specific goals. These approaches are woven together to address issues like addiction, family-of-origin problems, communication struggles, and body image. Ashanti describes therapy as a collaborative process where clients set the pace and goals.

With seven years of clinical experience, she brings a multicultural and intersectional lens to sessions. People who come to her typically want a thoughtful, practical plan for coping with life changes, grief, trauma, and relationship challenges.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Ashanti integrates attachment-based work with cognitive behavioral techniques to help people understand relationship patterns and change unhelpful thoughts. Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationships shape emotional reactions and closeness, and it can help with intimacy-related issues, abandonment concerns, and family-of-origin patterns. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying and shifting negative thinking and behavior patterns to reduce anxiety and depression.

She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills when emotional regulation and impulsivity are central concerns. DBT skills teach concrete tools for handling intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening communication in pressured moments. Together these approaches aim to build practical skills while exploring the relationship dynamics that maintain problems.

Finding the right approach is part of the work and will be decided collaboratively. The therapist will discuss goals, try strategies, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. This makes it easier to balance skill-building with deeper insight at a pace the client chooses.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, avoid travel time, and keep appointments consistent during life transitions. It also allows for shorter check-ins when needed or longer sessions for deeper work, depending on what the therapist and client agree will be most helpful.