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How I Work
EMDR, attachment-based therapy, relational therapy, somatic awareness, and psychodynamic approaches, combined around your history and goals.
Maria Boncyk, LCSW integrates EMDR, attachment-based therapy, relational therapy, somatic awareness, and psychodynamic approaches, all practiced fully AI-free, with no AI note-takers or session recording. Rather than fitting you into one method, she combines them around your history and goals, in virtual sessions for teens and adults across New York and Massachusetts.
Methods matter less than the relationship, but they still matter. After fifteen-plus years of clinical work, I have kept the approaches that consistently move people, and let go of the ones that only sound good on paper. What ties them together is a simple conviction: lasting change happens when you understand where a pattern came from, feel it shift in your body, and practice something different inside a relationship that is safe enough to be honest in.
The pages below explain each approach in plain language, what it is, what a session actually looks like, and who tends to benefit. If you would rather skip the theory and talk about what you need, go straight to the free consultation.
EMDR Therapy
An evidence-based therapy that helps the brain reprocess painful memories and stuck beliefs, so past experiences stop driving present-day anxiety, reactivity, and self-doubt.
Learn how this worksAttachment-Based Therapy
Therapy grounded in how your earliest bonds shaped the way you connect, trust, and protect yourself, and how those patterns can change in adulthood.
Learn how this worksRelational Therapy
A collaborative approach where the relationship between you and your therapist becomes a living laboratory for understanding and changing how you connect with everyone else.
Learn how this worksSomatic Awareness
Body-centered work that helps you notice what your nervous system is doing, tension, bracing, shutdown, and use those signals as a doorway to change that thinking alone cannot reach.
Learn how this worksPsychodynamic Therapy
Depth-oriented therapy that looks beneath symptoms to the unconscious patterns, old loyalties, and unfinished stories that quietly organize your life, so they loosen their grip.
Learn how this worksAI-Free Therapy
My firm practice commitment: no AI note-takers, no AI transcription, no session recording, and no technology that stores or shares what you say, so the room stays truly private.
Learn how this worksThe Approach Fits You, Not the Other Way Around
Nobody comes to therapy asking for psychodynamic exploration with somatic integration. People come because they cannot sleep, a relationship is falling apart, or an old wound keeps reopening. My job is matching the method to your situation. Read about what I help with, or learn more about my background.
Request a Free 25-Minute ConsultationStart the Conversation
A free 25-minute consultation is a low-pressure way to talk about what is going on, ask questions, and see whether working together feels right.