Therapist & Founder
Atara Vogelstein, MA, LCAT

Atara Vogelstein (she/her) is a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist and Drama Therapist in New York. Atara provides trauma-informed and body-centered psychotherapy to individuals and groups of varying ages and populations, with specialties including trauma and attachment, stress and anxiety, emotional and behavioral regulation, and self-esteem and empowerment.

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Atara has worked in acute inpatient psychiatric, inpatient detox and rehab, elderly residential, school mental health, and private practice settings. She has worked with children and adolescents presenting with neurodiversity, social and learning differences, vision and hearing impairments, and behavioral and emotional challenges related to complex and developmental trauma. She also has worked with adults with severe and persistent mental health challenges, intellectual and physical disabilities, substance use dependence, and older adults with cognitive and physical impairments. She provided teletherapy to clients throughout the pandemic and founded TherapyWalks to deliver outdoor alternatives and safer access to in-person therapy for children, teens, and adults during and beyond the Covid-19 crisis.

 

Atara continues to work with clients of all ages navigating trauma and attachment born anxieties and challenges through life transitions, grief and loss, and relationships. ​​Atara works with her clients to identify their needs and strengths and provide them with unique and individualized therapeutic support. Atara intends to create safer spaces for those healing from racial, intergenerational, systemic and complex trauma. She strives to guide clients toward finding interpersonal healing, embodied attunement, and personal balance and growth. Atara's practice stems from expressive, embodied, somatic, psychodynamic, and experiential care.

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Atara received her M.A. in Drama Therapy from New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education & Human Development, and her B.A. from New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Atara is a member of the North American Drama Therapy Association (NADTA) and a graduate of the Kint Institute Certificate Program in the Arts and Trauma Treatment post-Masters training cohort (2023).