Tony Karajanis, JD, LMFT

"Seeking therapy is an important step on your journey to promoting healthy change and positive growth in your life...My role is to guide you on that journey of re-connecting to your own potential and power so you can achieve positive change in yourself and your life."

In addition to being a Therapist, I am also an Attorney with over 20 years in legal practice. My experience as a lawyer provides an additional dimension to my work as a Therapist. I am comfortable working with intimate relational dynamics to achieve resolution and change. The ability to focus on your strengths, and your concerns, is the key to promoting growth.

What should you know about my session style?

My session style is conversational; I believe in starting with a shared narrative, a dialogue. This is where connection, trust, and rapport begin to build. Once established, authenticity, vulnerability, and the client’s reality are allowed to surface, thereby making space for deeper issues to flow within the session. This is my style.

How do my core values shape my views on therapy?

My father used to tell me, “You have to take EVERYTHING that happens to you in life and LEARN from it…your best lessons will come from your most difficult times and ‘failures.'” I believe this to be true. Life is a journey of personal growth, and there are always lessons to be learned from our experiences. This tenet is at the core of my work as a therapist: I work with the client based on their own experiences and assist in finding whatever will allow the client to tap into their greatest growth and potential.

What are my treatment approaches to therapy?

My approach to therapy is an “Integrated” style of the following therapeutic modalities:

• Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic

• General Systems/Systemic Theory

• Experiential/Gestalt

• “Self of the Therapist”

• Bowenian/Transgenerational

• Attachment & Emotionally Focused Theory

• Post-Modern, including: Solution Focused; Collaborative & Narrative Therapies

• IFS: Internal Family Systems

• Sex Therapy & Sexual Positivity/Kink Allied

• (A healthy sense of humor 😉)

My approach also encompasses an emotionally “parts-based” philosophy, that takes into account the complexities of our human nature and our emotional states of being.

Education:

• Masters, Marriage and Family Therapy: Southern Connecticut State University

• Juris Doctor: Quinnipiac College School of Law

• Bachelor of Arts: Wesleyan University

Additional Training:

• New England Center for Systemic Constellations

• Intensive International Conference for Systemic Constellations

• Gestalt and Experiential Therapeutic Interventions

• LGBTQIA+ Therapy & Counseling

• Sex and Sexual Positivity

• IFS: Internal Family Systems (with Richard Schwartz, PHD)

Clinical Experience:

• Marriage and Family Clinic, SCSU, New Haven, CT

• Caring Family Solutions, New Haven, CT

• Happy Family Clinical Services, New Haven, CT

• Wheeler Clinic, Plainville/Bristol, CT

Certified Psychology Today Therapist:

• To view my profile on Psychology Today, click HERE

Alma Online Counseling:

• To contact me, via Alma Counseling, click HERE

Photos courtesy of Ashley Abel Photography

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