About Vakhtang
Vakhtang Gomelauri is a licensed clinical social worker with 12 years of practice based in New York. He helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship challenges, addiction, low self-esteem, grief, and a range of other struggles. He offers sessions in English, Georgian, and Russian and provides online as well as phone and messaging options.
Vakhtang uses psychodynamic therapy alongside mindfulness and trauma-focused ideas to help people understand what is beneath their feelings.
How Vakhtang works
He pays attention to life story, early relationships, and recurring patterns that shape current behavior. Sessions often involve talking through memories and current difficulties to reach clearer self-understanding. He also draws on existential questions about meaning and values.
That helps when life changes or loss make it hard to see purpose or direction. Mindfulness practices are used to ground attention and reduce distress in the moment. Vakhtang aims to teach practical skills people can use between sessions to manage anxiety, reduce panic, and cope with stressful days.
The work blends insight about past experience with concrete strategies for daily life. He describes therapy as a collaborative process where the person decides the pace and focus. He has worked with people from different cultures and backgrounds and integrates that context into sessions.
Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. To begin, a person chooses the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules according to therapist availability.
Vakhtang lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Vakhtang works with
The areas below are the ones Vakhtang selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English, Georgian, Russian |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Vakhtang uses psychodynamic therapy to help people trace how early relationships and past events affect current feelings and behaviors. That kind of work aims to bring understanding and lasting insight about why patterns repeat.He also integrates trauma-focused techniques to address the impacts of traumatic experiences. These methods focus on reducing the hold of painful memories and building ways to cope with triggers and intense emotions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. He will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then tailor the mix of psychodynamic, trauma-focused, and mindfulness elements. The process is collaborative and paced to the individual.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier on busy days. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins or when written reflection helps. These options make therapy more flexible for work, travel, or varying energy levels.
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