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How I Work
Several approaches, combined around your history and goals.
The 15-minute consultation is free, with no obligation.
Maria Boncyk, LCSW combines EMDR, attachment-based therapy, relational therapy, somatic awareness, and psychodynamic approaches around your history and goals. Sessions are virtual, for teens and adults across New York and Massachusetts, and fully AI-free, with no AI note-takers or session recording.
Methods matter less than the relationship, but they still matter. The approaches below share three threads:
- 1
Understand
Where a pattern came from
- 2
Feel
How it shows up, and shifts, in your body
- 3
Practice
Something different, in a relationship safe enough to be honest in
Each page explains an approach in plain language. Rather skip the theory? 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
You don't need to choose a method. Tell me what's going on, and I'll match the approach to you. Read about what I help with, or learn more about my background. The 15-minute consultation is free.
Book a 15-Minute ConsultationStart the Conversation
A free 15-minute consultation to talk through what is going on, ask questions, and see whether we are a good fit.