Komal Choksi

Dr. Komal Choksi a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist providing individual therapy in Downtown Manhattan with over three decades of clinical experience in both New York and Asia. Her approach is psychodynamic/psychoanalytic, with a focus on uncovering, understanding, and working through the origins of various symptoms such as depression, anxiety, sense of alienation or stagnation, identity and relationship conflicts, impairment in work and creativity, and disordered relating to the body. 

She endeavors to create an attuned and engaged relationship in which it is possible to do the work of drawing connections between past and present, recognizing patterned and repetitive experience, and understanding the tensions between the desire for safety and security the one hand and the desire for change on the other.

In addition to attending to traumatic experiences within one's personal and familial early experiences, Dr. Choksi also places emphasis in understanding the contribution of gender, race, culture, class, migration, sexuality, religion, and political conflict on identity formation and adaptation.

Dr. Choksi sees all of this work as enabled by a deeply collaborative and dialogic relationship in which it is possible to strive for a more authentic relating to oneself, a reworking of dominant often constricting narratives about one’s life, and ultimately, alleviation of the experiences that drive the seeking of therapy.