Jasmine Gelber, LMSW

I specialize in working with queer and trans people, and with anyone for whom gender, sexuality, power, and authority have become sites of suffering. I work with people experiencing psychosomatic distress, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, anxiety, and depression. My treatment style is best suited for people who feel dissatisfied with quick fixes, and want a lasting sense of aliveness, self-knowledge, and the freedom to be in more fulfilling relationships.

I work with people on a weekly or multiple-times-per-week basis. Some come in feeling panicked, stretched too thin, or out of control; others come feeling isolated, disinterested, or hopeless. Many people I work with have experienced harm because of their identities — whether at the hands of peers, families, schools, institutions, or governments. My clinical experience includes work with artists, activists, immigrants, academics, sex workers, and other care professionals; and with people who have experienced trauma and extreme states, including sexual assault, violence, abuse, and self-harm.

I graduated with honors from the Silberman School of Social Work, and previously received degrees in the arts from Yale University (M.M.) and Columbia University (B.A.). I’ve been pursuing independent formation as a psychoanalyst since 2022, which has included clinical supervision, personal psychoanalysis, coursework through psychoanalytic institutes, and peer study groups. My interest in psychoanalysis is rooted in questions about language, the body, and the unconscious: How do our symptoms feel, what meanings do we ascribe to them, and how do social and political forces get spun into our internal psychic worlds? As a singular journey for each person, psychoanalytic treatment places an emphasis on subjective experience and the internal conflicts that can contribute to suffering.