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# Alexandra Dimant

LCSW

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- [Concerning Escape](https://www.changethroughinsight.com/concerning-escape/) - Concerning Escape (This piece was written by a young woman who was musing on several possibilities at the time.)An escape… How tempting is it to escape somewhere, to change the scenery, or to simply run away. Isn’t it always a human’s first response to everything? To run away, to hide, to start from a clean
- [Judgement or not?](https://www.changethroughinsight.com/judgement-or-not/) - Judgement or not? (It was hard to come up with an introduction for this piece written by a young woman – it beautifully speaks for itself.)I was always confused by the value most people seem to place on being non-judgmental. Aren’t we as humans constantly evaluating and assessing the world around us, if nothing else,
- [On Illusions and Decisions](https://www.changethroughinsight.com/on-illusions-and-decisions/) - On Illusions and Decisions (Written by a young man)A blessing and a curse – to be capable. To have options. To feel like the whole world is your oyster and you can direct yourself anywhere you wish. And if you don’t get there, all your encumberments, external factors, are to blame. My sick family, my
- [High maintenance](https://www.changethroughinsight.com/high-maintenance/) - High maintenance (Written by a young woman)I guess I consider myself “high maintenance” when it comes to my relationships with men. I am difficult, opinionated, naughty, demanding, have extremely high expectations of everyone (myself included). I guess I see myself as “heavy” and I imagine men to be not attracted by it unless they want
- [I always knew deep within…](https://www.changethroughinsight.com/i-always-knew-deep-within/) - I always knew deep within… (Written by a young woman)I think I always knew deep down that satisfaction with oneself comes from within and not from comparison. Sometimes I think that I so much despise this competitive attitude because this is the part I hate in myself too, I need to prove I am better.
- [Reflections After a Break-In](https://www.changethroughinsight.com/reflections-after-a-break-in/) - Reflections After a Break-In (Written by a young American woman on a fellowship in India)About a month ago, my house was broken in to as we slept. I had a friend in town that week, and she was sleeping in my room with me. She stayed up until 4am working, so they had a narrow
- [A Little On Relationships](https://www.changethroughinsight.com/a-little-on-relationships/) - A Little On Relationships Couples therapy is notoriously difficult, although when successful, it is tremendously rewarding. Many elements go into making it the most challenging of all therapeutic modalities, but the overarching one is probably the fact that for each of us “I, me, mine” are the most important concepts in any language. Even though
- [Lessons of Getting Older](https://www.changethroughinsight.com/lessons-of-getting-older/) - Lessons of Getting Older “All the time that I thought I was learning how to live, I was learning how to die” (Leonardo da Vinci)I’m starting to think that Faust may have got it backwards. Granted, it must have been thrilling to chase youth, within and without, when one’s years were coming to a close. Today,
- [What we want and what we get](https://www.changethroughinsight.com/what-we-want-and-what-we-get/) - What we want and what we get Years ago, I treated a boy whose parents had divorced some years prior. His father, who left the boy’s mother (his second wife) to start yet another family, was quite unwilling to come in and meet with me, even for the mere sake of getting acquainted. Then, after
- [Sherlock Holmes and the Life of Principle](https://www.changethroughinsight.com/sherlock-holmes-and-the-life-of-principle/) - Sherlock Holmes and the Life of Principle Humor me on this one. This is a moment for making grand pronouncements from a soap box, so here it is: every once in a while, I feel the need to speak up in defense of one of my favorite literary characters, Sherlock Holmes.How silly is that, really,
- [“Scary” Fairy Tales](https://www.changethroughinsight.com/scary-fairy-tales/) - “Scary” Fairy Tales Recently, a topic of “scary fairy tales” came up in an online forum I am a member of. A concerned young father wrote about being worried about exposing his little kids to the violence in folk tales (the wolf being not only cut open, but having his belly stuffed with rocks; a
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- [Home](https://www.changethroughinsight.com/) - "The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek" - Joseph Campbell Welcome Life is hard. Many of us struggle with sadness, anxiety, disconnection, hopelessness, or a feeling of being lost. Perhaps, in the past people would reach out to a wise elder or a clergyman to help work through the pain inherent
- [Contact](https://www.changethroughinsight.com/contact/) - Get in Touch Call me at 917 208-8330 or send a message: First Name* Last Name* Email* Message* SUBMIT Offices Midtown Manhattan:64 West 48th Street, Suite 1105, New York , NY 10019 Tenafly (Bergen County):Magnolia Avenue, Tenafly, NJ 07670
- [IFS](https://www.changethroughinsight.com/ifs/) - “IFS is the journey from fragmentation to integration, from woundedness to wholeness.” Richard C. Schwartz What is IFS? For a few years now, I have been learning and practicing IFS. This incredible approach to working with the psyche was developed by Richard Schwartz forty years ago and has slowly been winning over therapists and clients
- [Fees](https://www.changethroughinsight.com/fees/) - Fees $150-$180 for a 50 minute session. For patients who have out-of-network insurance benefits, I generate a bill which they may submit to their insurance company for reimbursement. Contact Me Insurances accepted Aetna Cigna Optum/United Behavioral Health (United Healthcare) Oscar
- [About Me](https://www.changethroughinsight.com/about-me/) - About Me I believe that my work is in helping clients walk less blindly through life. To achieve this aim, I try to ask questions to clarify the principles underlying the ways they relate to the world and others, bringing out the underlying assumptions, an inner philosophy, which guides so much of our thoughts, feelings,
- [EMDR](https://www.changethroughinsight.com/emdr/) - "EMDR is the gold standard in trauma treatment and has a variety of applications beyond trauma" EMDR Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a therapeutic technique discovered and developed by Francine Shapiro in the mid-1980s. Since then it has been shown to be one of the best tools for treating simple and complex trauma,
- [Philosophy](https://www.changethroughinsight.com/philosophy/) - "A therapist’s strength lies in an ability to tailor his or her approach to the needs of each patient" My Philosophy Some people need help with specific problems (e.g., a fear of heights or a tendency to procrastinate), while others look for a broader change. It could be that a more focused problem is successfully
- [Musings](https://www.changethroughinsight.com/musings/) - Musings... A Little On Relationships A Little On Relationships Couples therapy is notoriously difficult, although when successful, it is tremendously rewarding. Many elements go into making it the most challenging Lessons of Getting Older Lessons of Getting Older “All the time that I thought I was learning how to live, I was learning how to
- [In Their Own Words](https://www.changethroughinsight.com/in-their-own-words/) - In Their Own Words Concerning Escape Concerning Escape (This piece was written by a young woman who was musing on several possibilities at the time.) An escape… How tempting is it Judgement or not? Judgement or not? (It was hard to come up with an introduction for this piece written by a young woman –
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