Psychological suffering deserves to be understood—not merely managed

Dr. Jan Roberts, LCSW is a psychotherapist whose work begins where symptom relief ends. For more than twenty years she has worked with people who are, by most measures, succeeding — and who have arrived at the private recognition that competence is not the same as wholeness.

Her clients are often the ones others rely on: artists and writers, founders and executives, attorneys and bankers, people whose outer lives are accomplished and whose inner lives have been waiting for attention. The work she offers them is not management. It is understanding deep enough to change something.

Dr. Roberts' approach is integrative by training and depth-oriented by conviction. Her clinical work draws on  EMDR, cognitive-behavioral therapy, somatic processing, and contemporary neuroscience — but it is grounded in Jungian analytical psychology and the premise at the center of her practice: that a symptom is not only a problem to be solved but a communication to be understood. Anxiety, depression, relationship conflicts, the patterns that keep returning — these often carry meaning that the conscious mind has not yet been able to hear.

She is the founder of the Center for Integrative Mental Health and teaches graduate students at New York University. Dr. Roberts works with individuals, couples, and organizations across New York and Florida.