Cabezas ( kah-BEH-sahs) Therapy NYC-based psychotherapy practice focused on providing a landing pad for individuals, partnerships, and families to map out what’s going on and figure out a way through. At our practice, we have English, Spanish, and Portuguese therapy options.

We work through a lens that expands what people think about mental health care. This practice is less of a “we give you a worksheet and homework” and more of a we are with you as we collaborate on what wisdom you already have within.

Another reason for adapting and making these modalities work for the client and not the other way around, psychotherapist David Archer. in Racial Trauma Recovery, he says 

“ The history of psychology is rooted in the conservation and protection of whiteness. The standard measures of intelligence that psychologists adopted in the early twentieth century-at the height of European imperialism and the American Jim Crow era-were developed by eugenists to promote ideas of white supremacy (White, 2000), and psychologists played important roles in establishing beliefs of a radicalized human hierarchy through their studies of racial disparities. The American Psychological Association only in 2021 acknowledged its role in helping to fuel and sustain racial injustice based on skewed interpretations of race-based data and its abject silence throughout the civil rights era. 

Psychiatrists have only recently reckoned with the fact that inequitable-or non-existent-treatment of Black, brown, and Indigenous Peoples have been built into their systems and procedures. The American Psychiatric Association finally admitted, again only in 2021, to the harms caused to communities of color by race-based theories, including differential diagnosis for schizophrenia to continue to this day. As the apology acknowledges, modern psychiatric practice has been marked by “abusive treatment, experimentation, [and] victimization [ of Black and Indigenous people ] in the name of ‘scientific evidence’. The apology concedes that racists concepts and practicies are “ingrained in the structure of psychiatric practice and continue to harm BIPOC [ Black, Indigenous, and People of Color] psychological well-being even today.” 

We’re definitely not trying to say we are perfect, but we work on attuning to you and also changing the relationships between therapy and people.

People-children through older adults. Sometimes this shows up as those working through: Anxiety and overwhelm, Depression, Trauma (single and complex), ADHD, Autism, Relationships and intimacy, Identity and self-understanding, Cross-cultural Relationships, grief, sex & sexuality, relationships, cross-class experiences, disordered eating, body image issues, and some of our clients are also therapists themselves.