About Vakhtang
Vakhtang Gomelauri is a licensed clinical social worker with 12 years of experience offering therapy in New York. He helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, and issues with self-esteem and addiction. He also supports concerns like grief, intimacy, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, anger, career transitions, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes.
Vakhtang uses psychodynamic methods alongside mindfulness and trauma-focused ideas to help people notice patterns that cause distress.
Background and approach
He explains feelings and reactions plainly and helps clients learn practical skills for day-to-day life. Sessions focus on understanding early experiences, current relationships, and recurring emotional themes. His approach balances talking about past events with tools to reduce anxiety and manage mood in the present.
He encourages people to become more aware of internal thoughts and bodily cues. Mindfulness practices are used when they fit, to calm the nervous system and improve focus. Vakhtang works with adults from various cultural and language backgrounds and offers sessions in English, Georgian, and Russian.
He provides therapy by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging, adapting the format to what each person needs. He notes that his services are based in New York and holds LCSW credentialing. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on availability.
Vakhtang aims for clear communication and steady progress, helping clients find meaning and forward motion after difficult experiences.
How psychodynamic and mindfulness work online
Psychodynamic therapy helps people notice patterns in their feelings and behavior that come from earlier life experiences. Online sessions use conversation to surface those patterns, clarify how they affect relationships, and build insight that changes day-to-day choices.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple practices to steady attention and reduce reactivity. These techniques can ease anxiety, improve sleep, and support emotional regulation between sessions when practiced briefly each day.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, history, and preferences, and then adjust methods so they fit. That collaborative process helps pick whether to emphasize deeper exploration, trauma-focused tools, or practical mindfulness exercises.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or to communicate when typing feels more natural. These options let people shape therapy around work, family, and daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- New York, Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English, Georgian, Russian