About Vakhtang
Vakhtang Gomelauri is a licensed clinical social worker with 12 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and relationship strain. He practices in New York and offers sessions in English, Georgian, and Russian. He works with concerns ranging from addiction and eating issues to grief, anger, ADHD, and intimacy-related problems.
He uses a psychodynamic approach to help people understand patterns that began in earlier life. That work looks at emotions, recurring relationship problems, and how past experiences shape current reactions.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and reflective, aimed at gaining insight rather than quick fixes. Mindfulness techniques are part of his toolbox. These help people notice strong feelings and reduce reactivity in the moment.
He also draws on trauma-focused methods when past hurt is central to current difficulties. Vakhtang emphasizes practical skills clients can use between sessions. People learn strategies to reduce panic, manage depressive episodes, and handle everyday stress.
He combines those skills with deeper exploration to support lasting change. He provides both in-person and online options including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. To begin, users follow the site's Start Therapy flow, fill a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist's availability.
How his approaches translate to online therapy
Vakhtang often combines psychodynamic work with mindfulness and trauma-focused methods. Psychodynamic therapy looks at recurring patterns and early experiences that influence current feelings and relationships; it helps people gain insight into why they react as they do. Mindfulness therapy trains attention and breathing to reduce reactivity and manage anxiety in the moment. Trauma-focused therapy concentrates on processing past hurt so it causes less disruption in daily life and relationships.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. He discusses goals and preferences with each person and adjusts methods as the work unfolds. Clients and therapist review what helps most and shift the focus when needed so the plan fits the person’s needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can work when lower bandwidth or no camera is preferred. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, brief skill practice, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make scheduling more flexible and let people continue therapy across different settings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- 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
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