- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Mindfulness practice
About Ashanti
Ashanti Palatnik is a New York Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with seven years of clinical experience. She works with adults dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, self-esteem struggles, and addictions. She also helps people coping with relationship and intimacy issues, grief, and life changes, and she lists guilt and shame among her focus areas.
Ashanti draws on practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people notice patterns and make concrete changes. She uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current reactions. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to name thoughts that keep someone stuck and to try different responses. Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness practices are tools she offers for handling strong emotions in the moment.
In sessions she works in plain language and focuses on skills people can use between meetings. She often combines strategies - for example, pairing mindfulness with cognitive work to reduce rumination. Motivational Interviewing helps when someone is unsure about making changes or is facing addictive behavior.
Ashanti emphasizes attention to family of origin issues, abandonment and attachment concerns, and patterns like codependency or avoidant personality traits. She also supports people dealing with body image, communication problems, dissociation, and impulsivity.
She practices in New York and conducts therapy in English. Her stated approach includes addressing forgiveness, guilt and shame directly when these arise in work with an individual.
How Ashanti uses evidence-based approaches online
Ashanti commonly uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships influence current reactions and connection patterns. This approach helps when the issue involves abandonment, attachment concerns, or recurring relationship dynamics.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify thought patterns that feed guilt or shame and to practice different responses. CBT is useful for addressing anxious thinking, low self-esteem, and rumination. Dialectical Behavior Therapy provides concrete emotion-regulation skills and distress-tolerance tools for intense moments.
Figuring out the right mix of approaches is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences rather than prescribing a single path. That means trying skills, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together.
If you are considering online sessions, confirm the current session formats before booking since the biography does not list specific formats. Online work can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy schedule, shorten some check-ins when time is tight, or avoid commuting on a workday. Therapists can also offer phone or video options in general, which can help with things like lower bandwidth needs or not being on camera, but please verify which formats Ashanti is offering when you schedule.
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Experience
7+ years
Listed in
New York
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address related to guilt or shame?
She works with guilt and shame alongside issues like grief, relationship and intimacy problems, addictions, and family of origin concerns.
How does she approach feelings of guilt in therapy?
She blends Attachment-Based work, CBT, DBT, and mindfulness to help people notice patterns, reframe unhelpful thoughts, and regulate intense emotions.
What experience does she bring to this work?
She has seven years of clinical experience as a licensed therapist working with depression, anxiety, stress, and trauma-related issues.
Where is her practice based and what credential does she hold?
She is a New York LMFT and practices in New York.
Can I work with her if I speak another language?
Sessions are offered in English.
Does she accept clients outside the United States?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How are sessions scheduled and what do they cost?
Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What do I do to begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.