Ashanti Palatnik

Ashanti Palatnik is a New York LMFT with seven years of clinical experience helping adults through periods of change and uncertainty. She works with people facing depression, anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, addictions, grief, and relationship issues. She also lists life purpose exploration among her areas of focus. Ashanti draws on practical, evidence-based approaches to help people handle intense emotions and develop clearer patterns of thinking and behavior. Sessions often include work on attachment patterns, communication skills, and coping tools for impulsivity or substance use. She includes mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing techniques to support clients who want concrete steps forward. Her practice pays attention to how family history and early attachment shape current struggles. That can mean looking at family of origin issues, abandonment and attachment wounds, or problems that arise in blended family situations. She also addresses intimacy-related concerns and body image or shame that can get in the way of relationships. People come to Ashanti for help with both sudden life changes and long-standing patterns. She offers approaches for trauma and dissociation, as well as strategies for stress management and emotional regulation drawn from DBT and CBT. Coaching-style conversations about life purpose are also part of her work when clients want to clarify next steps. She practices from a multicultural, intersectional perspective and uses straightforward, practical interventions. Sessions aim to identify patterns, try specific tools, and reflect on what feels useful moving forward.

How her approaches translate to online work

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions can look at attachment injuries and practice new ways of relating to other people and to difficult emotions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. In remote sessions clients learn concrete exercises to test unhelpful beliefs and try behavioral experiments between meetings. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills. These techniques help with impulsivity, strong emotional reactions, and relationship conflicts that often come up in life changes. Finding the best approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with the client to choose methods that fit their goals and preferences. That may mean combining attachment work with CBT or adding mindfulness and motivational interviewing techniques when helpful. Confirm the session formats before booking since no specific formats are listed here. Ask about options that fit your routine and tech comfort. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when time is limited, and reduce the need to travel to appointments.