About Ashanti
Ashanti Palatnik is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in New York. She focuses on practical support for stress and anxiety, along with depression, self-esteem, grief, and addiction concerns. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at helping people find clearer next steps.
Ashanti helps people untangle relationship and communication problems. She also works with intimacy-related issues, attachment struggles, and the fallout from trauma and abuse. Sessions often include skills for coping with life changes and managing impulsivity.
Background and approach
She uses approaches like attachment-focused work, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior skills, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. That mix helps people notice unhelpful patterns and practice new ways of relating to themselves and others. Ashanti brings seven years of clinical experience in diverse settings.
She says identity and cultural context matter, and she pays attention to each person's background when shaping treatment. This means therapy is planned around the client's goals, not a one-size-fits-all protocol. Practical tools are a regular part of sessions - breathing and grounding, thought records, boundary work, and communication rehearsals.
Clients who want coaching-style help for life transitions can also work on clear action steps. Ashanti aims to make therapy understandable and useful from the first meeting.
Using attachment work and skills-based therapy online
Ashanti often combines attachment-based work with cognitive behavioral techniques to help people understand relationship patterns and change unhelpful thoughts. Attachment-based work focuses on how past relationships shape current expectations and reactions, which can help with intimacy and trust issues. CBT looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and provides clear exercises to reduce anxiety and negative thinking.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. DBT skills teach concrete practices for handling strong emotions, improving communication, and reducing impulsive behavior. Together these approaches give both insight into patterns and practical tools to try between sessions.
Choosing the best approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try strategies, and adjust methods based on what helps. That collaborative process aims to match techniques to a person's needs, pace, and preferences rather than assuming one method fits everyone.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching and reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or a busy schedule while practicing skills between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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