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Psychotherapy for adults, children, teens, and couples. Our main office is located in Brewster, NY. We also offer virtual therapy for residents throughout New York and Connecticut.

You might be experiencing:

  • Worrying about doing the whole parenting thing correctly

  • Caretaking overload

  • Struggling to take care of yourself like you care for others

  • Feeling like you can’t get your life together

  • Disliking parts of yourself

  • Feeling like you can’t cope with feeling exhausted all the time and frustrated

  • Ineffectively communicating your needs

  • Remembering difficult events that make living hard

  • Grieving changes in your life and what things used to be like

  • Feeling pressure to be smaller and struggling with your body, food, and/or movement

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Hi! I am Maria Antell, the practice owner of Forward Motion Counseling. I want therapy to feel authentic and a place you can grow with your therapist. We have several therapists who want to support you. Check out our services below and contact us for more information.

Therapy Services

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Check Your Benefits!

We do not accept insurance, but we have partnered with Mentaya to help you get reimbursed for your sessions.

Use the benefits calculator to see if you qualify for reimbursement for our services.

Mentaya is perfect if you:

  • Have out-of-network benefits

  • Feel overwhelmed by superbills and insurance

  • Have submitted superbills but failed to get any reimbursement

  • Simply want to skip the hassle of paperwork!

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Therapy can be virtual, in our Brewster, NY office, or outside in nature near the Brewster NY area.