About Vakhtang
Vakhtang Gomelauri is a licensed clinical social worker with 12 years of experience helping people cope with stress and anxiety. He offers straightforward, practical support for depression, trauma, relationship strain, and related concerns. He speaks English, Georgian, and Russian and provides care from New York via online formats and phone.
He uses psychodynamic ideas to help clients notice patterns that repeat from earlier relationships. That often means talking about emotions, memories, and how past events shape current reactions.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to increase self-understanding and reduce intense or confusing feelings. Mindfulness techniques are woven into sessions to teach simple ways to manage panic, intrusive thoughts, and overwhelming stress. These are exercises clients can use between meetings to steady breath, attention, and mood.
Vakhtang also draws on trauma-focused methods when past harm continues to affect daily life. In sessions the tone is calm and practical. He helps people learn skills they can apply at home while also looking at deeper causes of distress.
Many clients work on sleep, eating concerns, anger, or coping during major life changes. Vakhtang invites people to explore values, relationships, and life story to find clearer direction and purpose. He asks about what matters to the client and tailors the pace and focus to their needs.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
How his approaches translate to online therapy
Psychodynamic therapy focuses on understanding recurring patterns that affect mood and relationships. Online sessions offer a place to talk through memories, emotional reactions, and early life influences to gain clearer self-awareness and insight.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing exercises to reduce anxiety and steady mood. These short practices are easy to learn during a video call or via text guidance and can be used between sessions to manage panic or overwhelming stress.
Trauma-focused work pays attention to how past hurts continue to shape daily life and coping. In online sessions, the therapist helps identify triggers, build grounding strategies, and work at a pace the client finds manageable.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which methods to emphasize and adjust the plan over time.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls are useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat lets clients check in quickly, and text messaging supports brief updates or reminders. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- New York, Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English, Georgian, Russian
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