Joelid Rodriquez Pagan, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychology Post Doctoral Fellow
In Network: Aetna, NYU Student Health Insurance
Hi! I’m a postdoctoral psychologist who provides individual, couples, and group therapy in Spanish and English to adolescents and adults of all ages. I’ve worked with people who are suffering from depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and complex trauma involving the impact of (physical, sexual, and emotional abuse and neglect), as well as coping and thriving with serious mental illnesses. I’ve also worked with people struggling with self-defeating coping patterns and their impact on self-esteem, relationships and career success, significant and minor life transitions, grief and loss, and distress caused by natural disasters.
I’m curious to explore your history and relationships and together increase self-awareness and understanding of the familial, social/cultural, and institutional sources of your emotional distress as we attend to how you may heal and move past such experiences through empowerment and working through feeling states that you need not continue to carry on behalf of others. My aim in the therapy is to help you feel safe, build trust, uncover and explore, and shine the light of compassion onto dark spaces within your psyche. In addition to those well-grounded practices of talk therapy, I use evidence-based practices like Dialectic Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). We will find the best treatment that fits your needs and values.
My goal in therapy is to create a safe environment where you can feel comfortable expressing your feelings and thoughts, learn new skills and ways to meet your needs and live life according to your values. As therapy is a vulnerable process inside and outside the session, we will work together to help you receive the support and validation you may need. I will collaborate with you to identify triggers, emotions, and thoughts that most profoundly affect you.
I earned my doctoral degree from Ponce Health Sciences University in Puerto Rico. I completed my pre-doctoral internship at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital in New Jersey, offering individual and group therapy to highly acute patients and forensic populations.
I look forward to meeting you and helping you reach your therapeutic goals.