When life is changing shape
You do not have to figure it out alone.
Things aren’t bad, but they aren’t great either. You’ve outgrown parts of your life and don’t quite feel at home in the new ones.
I work with adults, from college age to midlife, who are in the middle of change or ready to pivot. Together we build a structure that fits the life you’re growing into, with roots deep enough to steady you and a map for what comes next.
THE HEART OF MY WORK
Growth lives just past comfortable
Picture three circles. At the center is your safe zone: familiar and known. Around it is the growth zone, where life asks something new of you. At the outer edge is the danger zone.
We outgrow our safe zones all the time. Growth feels uncomfortable, so we drift back to what we know, even when it no longer fits. Real danger is rare, but change can feel like it.
Therapy is a place to notice that discomfort without treating it as a problem, and to build the confidence to stay in the growth zone even when it’s uncomfortable.
As you grow, your safe zone grows with you, and everything you’ve lived through comes along.
A nautilus grows its whole life. When its shell gets tight, it builds a new chamber just past the edge of the last one and moves in.
The rooms it outgrows stay with it, spiraling behind. They’re what keep it afloat.
The in-between seasons
Most people find me when they’ve outgrown their safe zone. Something has shifted, or needs to.
WHO I WORK WITH
Starting out
College and the years after: finding your footing and figuring out what you actually want.
Work and calling
Career changes, burnout, ambition, and the bigger question of what you want your work to mean.
Love and partnership
Dating, commitment, breakups, marriage, and the patterns we carry into the people we choose.
Building a family
Deciding whether and how to become a parent, and the road through fertility, pregnancy and early parenthood.
HOW I WORK
Therapy is about connecting, human to human
Our time together is warm, direct and collaborative. You’re an active partner in setting the sessions treatment goals, and I bring both insight and practical tools.
Depth
A psychodynamic, relational approach that looks at the patterns laying underneath your presenting problem, including the ones that started long ago.
You in context
As a family therapist, I see you as an individual and as a person in relationships: with yourself, your family, your partner, your community and your work.
Grounding and clarity
I bring the foundational attitudes of mindfulness and various modalities including, CBT, emotionally focused and motivational interviewing help when you’re facing a decision or need to steady yourself through uncertainty.
Guidance, not a script
I’m part therapist, part champion. Some people come for a season, some stay longer. We decide together.
ABOUT ME
Hi, I’m Kristy
I’ve spent 20 years walking alongside people at the biggest thresholds of their lives, first as a doula and educator, and now as a therapist.
I founded two wellness organizations in New York City, the Village Wellness Project and Expecting(NYC), and trained hundreds of doulas as faculty with CAPPA. Today I’m the Chief Clinical Officer at Calla Collective, where I lead clinical care in reproductive mental health.
I hold an MS in Marriage and Family Therapy from Iona University and a BA in Cultural Anthropology from Purchase College, and I’m a published author in maternal health.
Kristy Zadrozny, LMFT
WRITING AND TALKS
Ideas I keep coming back to
ESSAY · CAPPA
Transforming pain
Why the only way out is through, and how pain, conflict and regret can become transformational.
TALK · CRITICAL BUSINESS SCHOOL
Why machines can’t be smart
A featured guest at Nitzan Hermon’s AI Literacy Salon at Critical Business School, bringing a therapist’s view to whether AI can understand meaning, and what that gap means for how we connect and decide.
BOOK CHAPTER · BLOOMSBURY
Labor and Postpartum Doula Support
How doulas help the transitions of pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum time, and why they matter. In Pregnancy and Birth: A Reference Handbook by Keisha L. Goode and Barbara Katz Rothman.
FOR CLINICIANS
Supervision, training and speaking
AAMFT Approved Supervisor and longtime doula trainer. I offer clinical supervision, training programs, workshops and talks on life transitions and the therapeutic relationship.
Start with a conversation
A free 15-minute call to see if we’re a good fit. No pressure, and no need to have the right words yet.
In person in New York City, and by video for clients in NY, NJ, CT, MA, OH, VA and FL. Individual and couples therapy. I’m out of network and provide monthly superbills for insurance reimbursement.
hi@kristyzadrozny.com · (646) 504-5436