Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy in Mount Kisco for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma
& Life Transitions
Therapy Informed by Advanced Clinical Training
Our psychotherapy work is grounded in evidence-informed methods, trauma-informed care, and decades of clinical experience. Training and certifications help shape the way we understand anxiety, trauma, emotional patterns, and the deeper roots of distress.
Certified Clinical Anxiety
Treatment Professional
Effective therapy is not one-size-fits-all. Some clients need practical tools to manage anxiety, depression, stress, or emotional overwhelm. Others need space to understand deeper patterns that have developed over time. Many people need both.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, can help you recognize the connection between your thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and physical responses. CBT is often useful when you want structure, skills, and a clearer way to interrupt patterns such as avoidance, self-criticism, rumination, or anxious overthinking.
We may also use mindfulness, trauma-informed therapy, and skills-based approaches to support emotional regulation and help you feel more grounded in daily life.
Psychodynamic therapy allows the work to move beneath the surface. We will explore how earlier experiences, relationships, defenses, and unconscious beliefs may still be shaping the way you see yourself, relate to others, and respond to pain. The goal is deeper self-understanding, emotional freedom, and real change.
When emotions are intense, it can be difficult to think clearly, respond thoughtfully, or feel in control of your choices. Anxiety, sadness, anger, shame, or fear can activate the nervous system so quickly that old reactions take over before you have a chance to pause. Therapy can help create that pause.
In our work together, we focus on helping you calm your nervous system, recognize your triggers, and build practical coping skills that can be used in real life. This may include learning how to slow down, breathe, ground yourself, notice what is happening internally, and make room for a more thoughtful response instead of reacting from fear, hurt, or overwhelm.
As awareness grows, you can begin to understand the difference between what is happening in the present moment and what may be getting stirred up from the past. This kind of insight can help you respond with more clarity, emotional balance, and self-respect.
At the center of this work is self-compassion. Therapy is not about criticizing yourself for the ways you have coped. It is about understanding why those patterns developed, learning new ways to care for yourself, and practicing more mindful, emotionally regulated judgment in the moments when you need it most.
Therapy works best when you feel safe, supported, and respected enough to move at a pace that feels right for you. At Sirona Therapy, the treatment space is intentionally calm, private, and grounding. The atmosphere matters because therapy is not only intellectual work. It is emotional work, relational work, and sometimes nervous-system work.
Acceptance and self-respect are central to the way we practice. Many people come to therapy carrying shame, self-criticism, worry, grief, or the belief that they should have been able to figure it out on their own. Our work is not about judgment. It is about helping you understand yourself more clearly, respond to yourself more compassionately, and make changes that feel possible and lasting.
Jennifer L. Zauner, LCSWR, has more than three decades of experience as a New York State licensed psychotherapist. Her clinical work is grounded in warmth, depth, honesty, and respect for each client’s lived experience. Whether therapy begins with practical tools from CBT, trauma-informed support, or mindfulness-based strategies, the work can also deepen over time into a psychodynamic understanding of the patterns, relationships, and emotional experiences that have shaped your life.
