Sanford Landa, LCSW
About
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in New York and Florida with many years of experience with both individual and emotion-focused couples therapy to people of all ages and from various different backgrounds. I typically work with those experiencing depression, anxiety, emotion dysregulation, relationship issues, addiction/substance use reducation, OCD, ADHD, life transitions and personality disorders.
I also work with clients experiencing complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) or complex trauma, utilizing attachment-based therapy. I aim to help these clients move forward to live a fulfilling life while recognizing and processing the repeated trauma that they have experienced.
Within attachment-based therapy, I work with clients to better understand and explore their early childhood experiences and how they become deeply embedded in our body memory. I help clients process and learn how this impacts us in our adult life and as we go through our life cycle.
With my clients, I aim to be caring, compassionate, and understanding. I value being with them in their experience, and through my solution-focused approach, I believe that the more time you focus on solutions, the more solutions will come to the surface and become apparent in your life.
I also utilize resource-based therapy as I believe that everyone has strengths and resources. Together, we can help rediscover the resources that we have and put them into action. I also incorporate neuroplasticity into my work, using research in modern brain science which states that we can change our brain and clear our emotional pathway to develop the resources for growth and change our brain for the good. I am also passionate about the effectiveness of mindfulness in allowing clients to be with their problems without becoming the problem and helping adjust to that notion.
I became a therapist because I wanted to help people and now, after doing this for so many years I get excitement from watching people grow magically before my eyes.
