Counseling in Brooklyn and Virtual
  • Integrative Psychotherapy

    Mind, Body and Spirit

     

    Welcome!

    We’re so glad you’re here!

    We are a team of highly skilled psychotherapists who uniquely integrate talk therapy, somatic psychotherapy, and creative arts therapies to support health, healing, and deep personal transformation. Our aim is to provide you a sanctuary of guidance and support, where you can express and explore your deepest truths; gain clarity and build resilience; find balance, alignment, and direction; and feel less alone and more at home in your body and in your life. Over the past thirty years, we have helped hundreds of clients live more authentically and at ease, with more courage and connection, purpose and passion.

    We support clients navigating anxiety, depression, life transitions, grief, identity, trauma, loneliness, relationship challenges, career, purpose and meaning, as well as those simply striving to grow into the next inspired version of themselves.

    In these uncertain times, when pressure and disconnection weigh heavily on so many, getting support is not indulgent; it is vital. Honoring and engaging all parts of you – mind, body & spirit – is paramount for cultivating genuine health, healing and wholeness.


    Inclusive 

    Affirming 

    Welcoming to All


     

    Primary for us is to create with you a safe, supportive space where you feel seen, heard, held, understood, and celebrated. An inclusive, anti-racist, anti-oppressive, culturally humble, LGBTQIA+ welcoming-to-all environment is step one for effective psychotherapy. We profoundly honor the full spectrum of diversity that makes up the human race.

    Welcome to our practice! We are accepting new clients for telehealth and in-person psychotherapy. We work exclusively with adults and would be honored to join you on your path.

    We look forward to meeting you!

     

    MIND

    Talk Therapy


     

    Having a safe space to express yourself, and get guidance and support from someone who is truly there for you each week can bring relief, new insights, and help you forge new paths for mind, body and spirit.

    BODY

    Somatic Therapy


    Somatic psychotherapies allow us to tap into the wisdom of the body to explore, express, experience and integrate unconscious material stored deep within to effect profound change.

    SPIRIT

    Art Therapy


     

    Art Therapy engages the creative source inherent in each of us, enhancing the therapy process when words alone are not enough. Each session becomes a natural unfolding of discovery.

    Ricki Grater LCSW, Owner/Director

    Hello and welcome! I’ve created Grater Therapy Group to offer a spectrum of holistic psychotherapies to address the growing need for quality and affordable mental health care. I’ve brought together a group of highly skilled, empathic, and passionate psychotherapists who I trust to give their utmost care and expertise to each of their clients. As Clinical Director, I am hands-on (behind the scenes) and oversee every client’s progress. Please explore all we have to offer!

    As for me, in addition to being a Licensed Psychotherapist (LCSW), I am also a Dance Movement Therapist and Yoga Therapist. For the past 30 years I have provided integrative somatic psychotherapy to adults at all stages of life and across all levels of care; from hospital psychiatric units to corporate boardrooms, to my private practice here in Brooklyn as well as virtually throughout New York. What this means is, while our work together is anchored in traditional psychodynamic talk therapy, we have a treasure trove of additional tools and techniques to call upon from meditation to body-based exploration, from parts-work to quantum manifestation, to help you reach your goals.

    Thank you for visiting our site and if it feels like a good fit, reach out today to connect with one of our therapists.

    Meet our Psychotherapists

    THE GUEST HOUSE

    This being human is a guest house.
    Every morning a new arrival.

    A joy, a depression, a meanness,
    some momentary awareness comes
    as an unexpected visitor.

    Welcome and entertain them all!
    Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
    who violently sweep your house
    empty of its furniture,
    still, treat each guest honorably.
    He may be clearing you out
    for some new delight.

    The dark thought, the shame, the malice.
    meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.

    Be grateful for whatever comes.
    because each has been sent
    as a guide from beyond.

    Rumi