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DR. SOPHIA HAERI, PhD
A therapist
who has done
the work.
Something I hear often from the people I work with is some version of this: "I understand myself. I have done the reading, the therapy, the work. And I still cannot seem to change the things that matter most."
That gap, between knowing and actually feeling different, has been the driving question of my career. I have spent years pursuing every framework, every method, every way of understanding why insight alone so often is not enough, because I believed there had to be a way to help people change not just in their minds but in their bodies, their relationships, and their daily lives.
That pursuit is what brought me to trauma-informed care, to EMDR, to somatic and attachment-based approaches, and to the work I do now.
I am Sophia Haeri, a licensed clinical psychologist serving clients throughout Westchester County, NY, Greenwich and Fairfield County, CT, and the Hudson Valley. I also see clients across 40 states through PSYPACT.
How I work
I pay close attention in sessions.
To what is being said and what is not.
To how your body shifts as you speak.
To the patterns that show up in your relationships, your work, your inner life.
A thread that runs through most of my work is the body. Stress, trauma, and old relational patterns do not just live in our thoughts. They live in how we breathe, how we hold tension, how we brace or collapse or go numb. A lot of what we do together is help your nervous system learn that things are different now, not just convince your mind of it.
Cultural context
Many of my clients carry experiences shaped by immigration, by bicultural or multicultural identity, by family systems built around survival, by the particular exhaustion of adapting across cultural worlds. They have often arrived at therapy having to explain themselves before they could even begin.
That does not happen here. The cultural, relational, and historical contexts that shaped you are already part of the conversation. You do not have to simplify your story to be understood.
Background
I have worked across a range of settings: community mental health, hospitals, foster care, university counseling, and now private practice. My doctoral research at the New School focused on intimate partner violence in immigrant communities. I have always been drawn to the people whose experiences do not fit neatly into the standard narrative.
I am not here to fix you, because I do not think you are broken. I am here to help you slow down enough to hear yourself.
CREDENTIALS
DEGREE
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, The New School
LICENSURE
NY and CT · PSYPACT (40 states)
EMDR
EMDRIA-certified, Consultant-in-Training
COUPLES
Gottman Method Level II · EFT trained
ADDITIONAL