Karolina Slavina, LMSW
Psychotherapist
Karolina is a psychodynamically oriented psychotherapist who works with children and adults navigating trauma, relational difficulties, emotional suffering, existential issues, and life transitions. She approaches psychotherapy as a space for self-exploration, meaning-making, and deeper understanding of one’s emotional life, relationships, and patterns of experience.
Karolina believes that emotional suffering often emerges when aspects of one’s experience remain unspoken, fragmented, or difficult to make sense of. Her work emphasizes attentive listening, curiosity, and the development of a reflective therapeutic relationship where patients can begin to understand themselves more fully and engage more freely and authentically in their lives.
Drawing from psychodynamic and relational perspectives, she explores how past experiences, attachment patterns, unconscious processes and conflicts continue to shape present emotions, relationships, and ways of relating to oneself and others. She views therapy not only as relief from symptoms, but also as an opportunity for growth, transformation, and becoming more fully oneself.
Karolina received her Master’s in Clinical Social Work from the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College and B.A. in Psychology from Queens College. She pursued additional psychoanalytic training by engaging with courses at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, the Psychoanalytic Association of New York, and the Contemporary Freudian Society. She aims to practice therapy with openness, attunement, thoughtful inquiry, and respect for the courage it takes to face one’s own suffering and transform it into strength.