Embrace the True Version of Yourself

Trauma informed and Somatic based therapy in New York

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Trauma Informed Therapy

Any experience where your sense of safety feels threatened and you're left feeling broken, helpless, or overwhelmed is trauma. Trauma and stress is almost always an underlying cause of various mental health conditions.

Somatic Therapy

It's common to find that somatic based therapies support a deeper connection between the mind and body. This integrated approach can lead to a greater sense of wholeness and alignment.

Dance Movement Therapy

Body movement provides a safe and supportive space to express and process your emotions. Through movement you can release bottled-up feelings, leading to a sense of emotional relief and catharsis.
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My Specialties

I tailor the therapeutic process to each client. Often, I use a holistic approach to healing that incorporates traditional talk psychotherapy with other modalities.

The Safe and Sound Protocol

The Safe and Sound Protocol

This is a therapeutic intervention designed to support individuals, especially those experiencing challenges related to social engagement, auditory processing, stress and emotional regulation.

Dance Movement Therapy

Dance Movement Therapy

I help reprocess distressing memories, alleviating emotional distress and promoting psychological well-being

Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy

Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy

Many people seek biodynamic craniosacral therapy for pain management. They may experience relief from various types of physical discomfort, such as headaches and muscular tension.

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benefits

Understanding Your Behavior.

Do you ever wonder why you continue to respond to stress with the same unhealthy ways over and over again, no matter how much you try to change?

Or why certain relationships continue to be problematic? Maybe you keep ending up with the same (wrong) type of partner?

Maybe you tend to shut down and avoid social situations, or maybe you become activated and loud and get into arguments.

Traumatic experiences impact a person’s stress responses. As a trauma informed therapist, I help my patients gain a better understanding of their emotional responses either with verbal processing or movement interventions. In therapy, I help you understand your reactions and we work together to break those negative patterns so that you can feel good about yourself and your relationships.

Heal pain and traumatic experiences

Break patterns of e.g. codependency or self sabotaging behaviors

Communicate in a way where you feel seen, heard, and understood

Put an end to the same recurring relationship challenges

Get relief from anxiety and/or depression

Choose partners intentionally and consciously and not based on unhealed attachment wounds

about

Hi, I'm Deniz.

If you’re someone who doesn’t usually ask for help—or who finds vulnerability in relationships complicated—I get it. I know what it’s like to feel misunderstood, to build armor out of independence, to stay in motion just to feel safe.

For me, that motion was often literal. Dancing became both a refuge and a form of expression—a way to move through stress, to release what was held inside, and to stay connected to joy and loved ones. Dance has always spoken to me in ways that words never could. Over time, that relationship to movement deepened and evolved into my life’s work.

I’ve learned that healing doesn’t come from fixing what’s broken, but from making space for the parts of us we had to disconnect from—often because we didn’t yet have the support or language to process what we felt. I bring that spaciousness into my work and invite clients into it with me.

In our work together, we listen to what your body has been holding—experiences that shaped you, responses that once protected you, and the parts of you that may still be waiting to be witnessed with care. Healing, to me, is an integrative process—one that engages the intelligence of the nervous system and body while honoring the dynamic interplay between thoughts, emotions, actions, and energy.

Let’s connect—and help you come home to yourself.‍
- Deniz Oktay

Client testimonials

Here are some experiences from my clients.

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Get in touch

Feel free to send me a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

deniz@denizoktayssp.com
(646) 798-1789
109 N. 12th StreetBrooklyn, NY 11249
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