About Ashanti
Ashanti Palatnik is a licensed marriage and family therapist working in New York. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, stress, and self-esteem struggles.
Background and approach
Her style is direct but gentle, aimed at practical steps people can use between sessions. She helps people cope with relationship and intimacy concerns, addiction and substance issues, grief, and major life changes.
Ashanti pays attention to how attachment patterns and family of origin shape current problems. She also addresses specific difficulties like abandonment, codependency, body image, and communication struggles.
Her work draws on several approaches including attachment-based work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior skills, mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing. That mix lets her tailor sessions to each person’s needs and goals.
Sessions include talking, skill-building, and setting small steps to practice at home. Ashanti brings seven years of clinical experience to her practice in New York.
She describes her role as a collaborator who listens closely and helps people try new ways of handling old patterns. Clients leave sessions with clear ideas to try between meetings.
She sees therapy as both problem-solving and personal exploration. The focus is on what feels manageable now and what changes someone wants next.
Ashanti aims to make therapy useful and straightforward for people under stress.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Ashanti uses attachment-based work to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. That approach helps when people struggle with trust, closeness, abandonment fears, or repeating family dynamics. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying different behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, avoidance, and daily coping strategies.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Ashanti collaborates with each person to decide which methods match their goals and comfort level. Together they try techniques, notice what helps, and adjust plans to fit changing needs and life demands.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people work face to face when schedules allow. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier on the go. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching moments, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives while using the therapist’s chosen approaches in real time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English