Princeton Psychotherapy Center
Specialized therapy for adults, adolescents, & couples in Princeton, NJ and virtually across NJ & NY
About Us
We’re a team of therapists in Princeton, NJ with expertise in anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, perfectionism and achievement pressure, perinatal mental health, insomnia, OCD, chronic health concerns, and life transitions. We bring rigorous clinical training and genuine engagement to every aspect of treatment. Our therapists are trained in several different therapeutic approaches, including CBT, DBT, ACT, psychodynamic, and integrative therapies. This variety allows us to match you thoughtfully with the therapist best suited to you.
We're available in-person in our Princeton offices, and virtual appointments are available across NJ, NY, and more than 40 states nationwide.
Our Areas of Expertise
We treat a wide range of concerns — from anxiety, depression, and OCD to perinatal mental health, insomnia, relationship difficulties, and the particular pressures of high-achieving environments. Click on a link below to learn more about each concern and our approach to it. If you don't see your concern listed, please reach out — chances are we can help, or point you in the right direction.
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Anxiety is one of the most common reasons people seek therapy. If you find yourself wondering whether your anxiety is really bad enough to warrant help, whether you should just be able to handle it, or whether others have it worse — that self-questioning is itself a hallmark of anxiety. We treat generalized anxiety, panic disorder, social anxiety, OCD, and phobias.
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Stress can stem from many areas of life and, when sustained, affects both mind and body — impairing sleep, concentration, and relationships. Over time, it can escalate into burnout, which often goes unnamed and is sometimes mistaken for depression. Therapy can help identify the root causes, untangle competing pressures, and find a path toward meaningful change.
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Living with a chronic illness or condition means living with uncertainty — about how you'll feel, what you'll be able to do, and what the future holds. It can bring a profound sense of loss: for the life you had before, or the one you expected to have. The unpredictability can feel relentless, and the emotional weight of managing an ongoing condition is often invisible to others — hard to explain and easy to minimize, even by people who care about you.
Therapy offers a space to process what you're carrying — the fear, the frustration, the grief — and to find ways of living as fully as possible alongside it.
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Our relationships are often the most direct source of our sense of wellbeing — and when something isn't right in them, it can be hard for anything else to feel quite right. Difficulties with communication, managing conflict, or letting others in can cause real strain in our most important relationships. Many people also notice that the same struggles tend to repeat across different relationships — patterns that can be hard to see from the inside, let alone change. Therapy can help you identify what's getting in the way and begin to do things differently, working toward relationships that feel more connected and fulfilling.
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Depression is more than sadness — it can affect how you think, how you feel in your body, and your ability to engage with the things and people that matter to you. It can make even small tasks feel effortful, drain pleasure from things you used to enjoy, and create a kind of flatness that can be hard to describe and hard to shake. But research shows that depression responds well to treatment, and the right support can make a meaningful difference. We draw on a range of research-supported approaches, tailored to you and what you're going through.
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Our relationship with technology — and particularly with our devices and social media — shapes our mental health in ways we're only beginning to understand. We work with adults navigating anxiety, overuse, and a growing discomfort with how technology has come to occupy their lives, helping them take a more intentional and active role rather than a passive one. Our director holds certification from the National Institute for Digital Health & Wellness (NIDHW).
We also work with parents concerned about their children's relationship with technology — from young children through teenagers and young adults — helping families navigate screen time, social media, and the broader challenges of raising children in a digital world.
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Deciding whether to have children, when, and how is among the most personal and consequential decisions a person can face — and rarely as straightforward as it might look from the outside. For many people, the process is filled with ambivalence, competing pressures, and questions that don't resolve easily or quickly. For many, there are no easy answers, and these are questions that deserve thoughtful attention.
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We offer support for those navigating fertility challenges and pregnancy loss. We recognize that these experiences can bring profound emotional pain, identity shifts, and strain on relationships. Therapy can help you make sense of feelings that can be hard to untangle on your own — the grief, the uncertainty, the self-blame.
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Grief is almost always more complicated than people expect. The loss of a person, a relationship, a role, or a life you had imagined can bring not just sadness but a tangle of feelings that can be hard to make sense of — guilt, anger, confusion, relief, and a disorienting uncertainty about how to move forward. Many people feel pressure to grieve on a timeline that doesn't match their experience, or find that others have moved on before they have. And as life goes on, the guilt about re-engaging with it can become its own source of pain.
Grief doesn't always look the way people expect it to, and it doesn't always come from where people expect. The loss of someone to illness or old age, a sudden or traumatic death, the end of a relationship, a miscarriage, a diagnosis — these are all real losses, and they all deserve space.
Therapy offers a place to grieve without having to manage how it lands on others, and to untangle what's complicated — so that over time, there's room for the rest of life again.
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We offer Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), the gold-standard, evidence-based treatment for chronic insomnia — more effective than medication for most people, and without the side effects.
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Life transitions can be harder than people expect. You might assume that if you wanted the change, or if it's a happy one, you shouldn't struggle with it. But all transitions — even positive ones — involve loss and uncertainty. You may feel excited for what's ahead and overwhelmed at the same time, and you may also miss what you've left behind. That combination of feelings can be confusing.
Unexpected transitions are difficult in their own way. Change that you couldn't have prepared for can be disorienting and exhausting. You may feel disappointed, or a sense of grief for what you had imagined your life would look like.
When emotions are mixed and complicated, it can be hard to untangle them or know where to begin. Therapy can help you make sense of what you're feeling and find a way through the change.
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OCD often involves unwanted thoughts that can feel impossible to dismiss — tormenting, persistent, and outside your control. For many people, there is an excruciating gap between knowing that the fears aren't fully rational and being unable to stop them anyway. Our therapists have specialized training in the gold-standard treatments for OCD, Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
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The expectations on parents today are enormous: be fully attuned to your children, protect their mental health, manage their screen time, fill their lives with meaningful activities, and do all of this while working, maintaining relationships, and somehow taking care of yourself. Many parents find themselves exhausted, wondering whether they're doing it right — or convinced that they're not. These feelings are far more common than parents know.
Parenthood can also affect your sense of who you are. Some parents find themselves unsure of their identity outside of being a parent. Others know who they are but feel completely out of touch with that person, disconnected from the things that once gave them joy and energy. The relationship between partners can suffer too, as the demands of parenting leave little time or space for connection.
Therapy offers parents a space to step back and gain perspective. It can also be practically useful — helping you think through how to talk to your kids, navigate disagreements with your partner about parenting, and manage screen time and technology. We work with parents of children of all ages, from infants to adult children.
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Perfectionism can be difficult to recognize in yourself — the line between high standards and perfectionism can be genuinely hard to see from the inside. But a hallmark of perfectionism is that it tends to undermine the very things it promises: the sense of accomplishment, satisfaction, and meaning that come from doing something well. It can make everything feel like work and crowd out other parts of life, including relationships. The prospect of letting go can feel frightening — as though performance itself is at stake. Therapy can help you understand where your perfectionism comes from and find a different relationship with your own expectations that leaves room for the rest of life.
Similarly, achievement pressure can be hard to recognize because the line between healthy ambition and something more problematic is genuinely difficult to see. This kind of pressure often develops early — in students navigating relentless academic and extracurricular demands — but tends to follow people well into adulthood. At its core, it can collapse a person's sense of worth into a single dimension: when things go well, you're enough; when they don't, it can feel like everything has fallen apart. Rest feels unearned, other parts of life feel like distractions, and the pressure to perform can feel constant and inescapable. Therapy can help you understand where the pressure comes from and begin to loosen its grip — so that life feels less relentless and there's more room to breathe.
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We offer specialized support across the full perinatal continuum — from fertility challenges and pregnancy through postpartum and early parenthood. We treat perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs) as well as the broader challenges of becoming a parent, including identity shifts, relationship changes, and the transition to parenthood for birthing parents, partners, and couples.
Learn more about how we support people in the postpartum phase.
Learn more about how we support people going through fertility challenges and pregnancy loss.
Learn more about how we support people going through pregnancy and the transition to parenthood.
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Pregnancy and the transition to parenthood together form one of the most significant phases in a person's life. Alongside the joy and anticipation, many people find themselves navigating profound physical and emotional change, unexpected ambivalence, and the weight of others' expectations, followed by a transition that reshapes identity, relationships, and daily life in ways that are impossible to fully anticipate. The experience can bring enormous joy and also real difficulty, and the two are not mutually exclusive. You don't need a diagnosis or a clinical disorder to warrant support. Therapy can offer a space to process what you're going through, sort through competing feelings, and find a path forward that feels right to you.
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A phobia becomes a problem when avoiding it starts to cost you something. Social anxiety is more than shyness or introversion — it involves an intense fear of judgment or evaluation that can make socializing feel exhausting before, during, and after the fact. Research-backed treatment for both is available.
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Our relationships are often the most direct source of our sense of wellbeing — and when something isn't right in them, it can be hard for anything else to feel quite right. Difficulties with communication, managing conflict, or letting others in can cause real strain in our most important relationships. Many people also notice that the same struggles tend to repeat across different relationships — patterns that can be hard to see from the inside, let alone change. Therapy can help you identify what's getting in the way and begin to do things differently, working toward relationships that feel more connected and fulfilling.
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Life is challenging and many of us experience overwhelming events that are difficult to process and can have a serious impact on the brain and body. If you are not feeling like your “usual self” following a traumatic event, it may be beneficial to seek intensive support. We offer individualized post-trauma care utilizing elements from several evidence-based treatment approaches. When appropriate, we may also use structured therapy protocols, such as Cognitive Processing Therapy or Prolonged Exposure.
Who We Work With
Adults
We work with adults across the full arc of adult life. Young adults navigating the transitions of early independence, post-college life, and finding their footing. People in their thirties and forties managing the competing demands of relationships, careers, and growing families. Those in midlife navigating the particular pressures of raising teenagers, caring for aging parents, and managing multiple responsibilities. People managing the physical and emotional challenges that come with midlife and beyond — including hormonal transitions, chronic health issues, and sleep. Whatever stage you're in, we bring the same depth of clinical attention to the full complexity of your experience.
Adolescents
We work with adolescents aged 13 and older. The teenage years bring their own particular pressures — academic and achievement demands, the introduction of social media and personal devices, questions of identity, and the ongoing work of becoming oneself. We offer individual therapy and, where helpful, work with parents as well.
Couples & Pairs
We offer couples therapy for romantic partners and other important relationships, including adult siblings, close friends, and parents and adult children. We help people navigate conflict, recurring patterns, major transitions, and disconnection while strengthening communication and connection.
Our clinicians draw from research-supported approaches, including Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) and Gottman Method Couples Therapy. Melissa Greenberg, PsyD, and Lauren Uyeji, LPC, have completed Level 1 Training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy; Dr. Greenberg is also a Bringing Baby Home educator with specialized training in the transition to parenthood.
Getting Started
Reach out — Contact us by phone, email, or through our website — whichever feels easiest.
Get matched — Our therapists bring different training, backgrounds, and clinical approaches, which means we can match you to the right person and style of therapy for your specific concerns. Browse our profiles and choose someone who feels like a good fit, or let us help.
Talk with us — You'll have a free 15-minute phone consultation with a therapist in our practice. We'll talk through your concerns, answer any questions you have, and schedule an appointment. If we're not the right fit, we'll do our best to refer you to someone who is.
Meet Our Team
Clinical & Health Psychologist
Clinical Psychologist & Psychoanalyst
Director & Clinical Psychologist
Licensed Professional Counselor
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Whether you're ready to get started or just have questions, feel free to reach out — we're happy to help you figure out your next steps.