Parts Work
Parts work helps people recognize and understand conflicting inner reactions so they can build self-understanding, emotional resilience, and healthier relationships.
Our Therapists
Julia Ayriyan, LMHC
Individual Therapist · Virtual
Virtual across NY.
You're a high functioner. You've learned how to show up for everyone else, how to work hard, push through, lead, and perform, and from the outside your life looks full. But inside? You might feel like you're constantly 'on,' like slowing down feels unfamiliar or even unsafe. High-functioning people are often praised for the very patterns that quietly wear them down, so the exhaustion stays invisible and the bar keeps moving. Often these patterns began long ago, in childhood homes where emotional attunement wasn't modeled or in environments that rewarded self-denial and discouraged vulnerability.
Meet Julia
Julia works with people who have mastered the art of showing up for everyone else and are quietly running on empty. The high-achiever who can lead a meeting and fall apart on the drive home. The person who can articulate exactly what's wrong but can't seem to stop doing it anyway. Her work is about slowing down enough to actually understand what's underneath the performance.
Her approach is warm and unhurried. She creates the kind of space where things you've never said out loud start to feel sayable, and where the body's signals, not just the thoughts, get included in the conversation. Clients often describe sessions with her as the first time they've felt genuinely heard rather than evaluated.
She works primarily from a psychoanalytic and somatic lens, which means she's interested in what's below the surface: the early relational experiences that shaped your nervous system, the parts of yourself you've learned to suppress, and the ways past wounds still quietly run the show. The work isn't about fixing you. It's about helping you finally understand yourself.
Julia is a licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) trained in parts work, somatic approaches, and psychodynamic therapy. She sees clients virtually across NY.
Specialties
Approach
Somatic
Somatic work tracks the body's responses to stress and trauma to support regulation, release stored tension, and strengthen overall well-being.
Psychodynamic
Psychodynamic therapy explores how past experiences and unconscious beliefs still shape the present, creating room for deeper healing and more satisfying relationships.
Off the clock
Julia's Non-Negotiables
for holistic mental health
- Heavy weight lifting
- Running
- Seinfeld
- Nature
- Reading 20th century mystery novels
