Ashanti Palatnik, LMFT

Ashanti Palatnik is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in New York. She focuses on thoughts and everyday habits that shape emotion and behavior. Ashanti aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for people feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or uncertain about next steps.

Ashanti helps with common concerns like anxiety, depression, stress, and low self-esteem. She also supports people working through grief, addiction, relationship strain, and life changes. Her work addresses intimacy-related issues, trauma and abuse, and communication problems in everyday relationships.

Her approach blends talking together about patterns with concrete tools to change them. That can mean noticing unhelpful thoughts, practicing new ways to cope, and trying small behavior changes between sessions. She uses methods drawn from attachment-focused work, cognitive behavior approaches, DBT skills, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing.

Ashanti brings seven years of clinical experience and a multicultural, intersectional perspective to sessions. She pays attention to family of origin dynamics, attachment wounds, and issues like abandonment or codependency when they come up. She aims to make therapy feel like a collaborative process rather than a lecture.

People who choose Ashanti often want clear strategies and steady support while they sort hard feelings. The first step is a short matching process to find a schedule that works. From there she helps people set practical goals and try changes that fit real life.

How attachment and behavior-focused approaches fit online care

Ashanti commonly uses attachment-based work to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This helps people understand why they react a certain way in close relationships and how to try new ways of relating. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing small changes in daily habits to reduce anxiety or low mood.

Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Ashanti collaborates with each person to identify goals and decide which methods will be most useful. That shared planning can make online sessions feel focused and practical rather than vague.

The therapist's biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm current online options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce commuting time, and allow check-ins during transitional periods. It also supports steady practice of new skills between meetings, which is especially helpful for changing thoughts and everyday habits.