Find healing and growth through depth psychotherapy - live beyond anxiety, depression, and trauma.
Depth Psychotherapy
If you're ready to look deeper into repetitive symptoms or patterns in relationships, know yourself more clearly, and experience a more meaningful type of therapy, depth psychotherapy might be for you. Available virtually in 42 states.
Forensic Services
We also focus on situations where legal systems intersect with psychology, including civil and criminal issues. We are available for evaluations, treatment, and consultation.
What Depth Psychotherapy Means to Us.
Trauma Focused
For us, psychological trauma can be any event that forces you to change the way you see the world or yourself.
OUR VALUES
Relational
Much of human learning (and un-learning) happens within important relationships. We make the relationship important.
Fellow Travelers
Therapy is not simply about receiving advice. It's about a two-way relationship that grows and evolves, for both client and therapist.
Emotional
As humans, we often move past instead of understanding emotions. Sometimes this works, sometimes it keeps us confused and without a sense of control.
Psychodynamic
Our therapy looks at underlying dynamics in how you interact with yourself and the world, and does so from a big picture perspective.
ABOUT US
Providing Psychotherapy to 42 states via telehealth.
Black Locust Psychology (named after the Black Locust tree) was founded in a small New England town in Connecticut and offers psychotherapy and psycho-legal services to many states nationwide.
We use evidence-informed approaches with folks seeking growth and understanding, especially with experiences that haven't fit standard approaches. Our psychologists bring unique backgrounds to our practice to offer a full range of clinical services to adults, adolescents, families, and couples.
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Our providers focus on issues of identity and trauma, with special attention to legal involvement, cultural context, and social expectations - this includes topics like:
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Religious background or beliefs
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Discrimination, navigating systems not designed for you
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Men's issues
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Life transitions (leaving home, career changes, relationship changes, parenthood, older adult experiences)
We each have deep experience working with dissociation, fragmented sense of self or reality, and experiences like psychosis. We also have extensive training in more common (but still painful) psychological experiences.
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All of our providers are doctoral level psychologists. Dr. Daniel Flack, JD, PhD is a licensed psychologist in CT (no. 4619) and authorized to practice in PSYPACT states (APIT Mobility no. 21158). Dr. Aieyat Zalzala is a licensed psychologist in CT (no. 3856) and in FL (no. PY12797). Dr. Luke Hendren is a licensed psychologist in CT (no. 4622).
We deeply understand the desire to avoid and forget - a near-joyful experience at times. We also understand the dangers of a life built on staying hidden.
Why Depth Psychotherapy?
Depth psychotherapy has been around for a long time but is becoming less accessible. It's also a type of therapy that works, that people want, and that fits with real human experiences.
It Works
Research has found that psychodynamic psychotherapy has a strong evidence base across many psychological experiences. It can be especially effective for complex stories or some types of personalities.
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People Want More
Many folks have 'failed out' of other therapies, or 'graduated' programs without any lasting change. Recent studies have found that 88% of people seeking therapy (see p. 8) would rather take longer and address the root cause then move more quickly and only manage symptoms.
This Therapy is Real
This therapy embraces the complexity of being a human. Other therapies try to manage these complexities with guardrails like strict session agendas, and they try to show that they’re effective by often excluding folks with multiple diagnoses from their research. We hope for complex - otherwise, it's not real.
UNDERSTAND OUR THERAPY PROCESS
Therapy with us does not begin at the top of the hour or end when we say goodbye. It is much more than a casual conversation.
Psychotherapy can often feel like a normal conversation, but it is much more than that at Black Locust Psychology. Click to learn about what goes into effective psychotherapy inside and outside of the session.