Caryn Sherbet
Caryn Sherbet, LMSW
Staff therapist
If you’re looking for an understanding, validating environment with a therapist who can…
Create a safe space for you to feel and understand big emotions—and get to a place where you feel them less intensely
Help you navigate OCD, anxiety, and sexual trauma
Understand all kinds of relationships
Talk about serious topics...but will also have a sense of humor about it
…you might be in the right place
About Caryn
Caryn (they/she) is a trans nonbinary therapist who specializes in helping clients navigate OCD, anxiety, and sexual trauma (and often the intersection of all three). They also specialize in treating existential grief and executive dysfunction.
Caryn is especially passionate about providing trauma-informed sex therapy to queer people and sexual violence survivors. They bring a deep understanding of how oppressive systems impact our relationships and a firm belief in using therapy to guide folks toward pleasure.
They help clients create a safe space to feel scary emotions and develop tangible skills to stop avoiding their feelings so they can enjoy life more. Caryn helps clients understand that anxiety is not actually an emotion, but a way of avoiding bigger, more unpleasant feelings bubbling beneath the surface. They use mind-body therapies like internal family systems (IFS) and exposure and response prevention (ERP) to teach clients how to get in touch with these Big Feelings without being swallowed by them.
Caryn might be the right therapist for you if…
…you want to work with someone who Gets It: who understands the nuance of gender and sexuality, who understands your cultural references, and who sees the value in humor as a coping mechanism (aka, I’ll laugh at your jokes!)
…you want to work with someone who understands how oppressive systems impact our relationships with ourselves and each other.
…you want to stop intellectualizing your emotions and actually feel them (or, perhaps, feel them a little less intensely all the time)
…you keep finding yourself in unsatisfying situationships and don’t understand why!
…you want to build a more fulfilling sex life from a pro- kink, sex work, disability justice, and fat liberationist framework
…you want an explicitly anti-Zionist Jewish therapist to work through Zionism-related trauma
…you need help processing The Horrors of living in the existential nightmare that is our world
Education + licensure
Master of Social Work, Columbia University, 2023
Bachelor of Arts, University of Michigan, 2019
Licensed Master Social Worker #120053, NY
Licensed Social Worker #44SL06978900, NJ
Registered Out-Of-State Telehealth Provider #TPIC234, FL
MI Master Social Worker Limited License # 6851117842
Rates
Individual therapy: $250 per 50-min session
Couples’ therapy (2 people): $300 per 50-min session
Relationship/family therapy (3+ people): $350 per 50-min session
Caryn offers sliding scale rates on a case-by-case basis and is sometimes able to flex their rates for clients whose out-of-network benefits do not adequately cover therapy. They may also be able to offer single-case agreements for clients without out-of-network benefits depending on the details of your plan.
Contact information
Email: csherbet@triskapsychotherapy.com
Phone: (646) 699-4962
