Sara Casen, PhD

Your 20s and 30s are a powerful window for growth, offering the chance to define your own path and build a life that truly fits. Dr. Casen specializes in helping college and graduate students, recent graduates, and young professionals move from feeling stuck to feeling unstoppable. Licensed to practice in both California and New York, she provides warm, goal-oriented support to master this chapter with clarity and confidence, whether you are navigating the complexities of the modern dating landscape, looking to strengthen social and family relationships, or seeking to excel in your academic/professional life.

Career growth and academic success shouldn't come at the expense of your mental health. Dr. Casen helps you tackle specific obstacles that keep you stagnant, from performance anxiety/burnout to the social anxiety impacting professional networking, as well as anxiety around the transition from campus life to the professional world. Therapy with Dr. Casen also offers actionable strategies for depression and ADHD, optimizing your productivity, and promoting work-life balance. Many of Dr. Casen's clients have goals around building careers in tech, academia, law, and entertainment, and she is familiar with the excitement, and the challenges, of working in these fields.

The modern dating landscape can feel like a second job, but it doesn't have to be a source of constant stress. Therapy with Dr. Casen helps to guide you towards increased self-awareness, heal from the grief of breakups, and communicate your needs effectively, so that you approach relationships with genuine self-assurance. Whether you are traversing the complexities of the apps or enhancing a long-term partnership, you will develop tools to build healthy, lasting connections. Therapy with Dr. Casen aims to address the internal hurdles that impact your relationships, helping you untangle old patterns that aren’t working so you can foster relationships that align with your long-term goals.