A different kind of "CBT"
CAROLINE BUREK, SHE/HER/S
endearingly once called the "jump around dance therapist"
MS, LCAT, BC-DMT
Caroline Burek Therapy is a practice built to create spaces for people who have struggled to find benefit in more "traditional talk therapy". In this treatment, people are encouraged to access joy and creative modalities, find power and magic in lived experiences, and will build positive and healthy connections to help them flourish against the odds.
WHAT TO EXPECT FROM CAROLINE BUREK THERAPY?
As a therapist, Caroline utilizes an abolitionist framework to offer spaces for finding validation, processing difficult experiences and encouraging joy in treatment. She is a New York State Licensed Creative Arts therapist and has experience working with people experiencing, what are often labeled as, "difficult or persistent" mental illnesses. (Read: psychosis, personality disorders, bipolar disorder, teenagers). She is passionate about challenging the system of oppression that the mental health field is built upon and does so by often practicing outside of the "standards" of a more traditional therapist.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
In sessions, Caroline will bring her full self into the relationship (sarcasm, play and all) and will encourage you to do the same. This does not happen immediately, and as in all relationships, trust is built on consistency and support. Caroline is experienced in holding and reframing difficult experiences and offers space to allow people to share all parts of themselves, no matter how "scary" or "strange" it is.