Jaime Grunfeld
Compassionate psychodynamic and solution-focused care
- Credentials
- LMHC, LPC
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed in
- New York, New Jersey
- Languages
- English, Spanish, Portuguese
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jaime
Jaime Grunfeld uses psychodynamic and solution-focused methods to help people feel steadier and more in control. He prefers clear, practical work that explores how past patterns shape current feelings. Jaime is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Licensed Professional Counselor who draws on 17 years of clinical experience in New York.
He speaks English, Spanish, and Portuguese and works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, parenting, and relationship issues.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to identify what drains energy and what restores it. Jaime helps people notice repeated reactions, understand their origins, and test new ways of responding. He also offers focused problem-solving when a specific change is needed quickly.
That mix supports both deeper insight and short-term progress. Jaime explains therapy in everyday terms and keeps goals practical. He works on coping with life changes, grief, trauma, addictions, and issues around identity and sexuality.
Additional areas he often addresses include family of origin matters, fatherhood questions, guilt and shame, and midlife concerns. Clients can expect a collaborative process that balances reflection with action. Jaime brings nearly two decades of experience as an LMHC and LPC to each session.
His background helps him adapt the work to individual needs and to different cultural perspectives. For people juggling busy lives, he offers flexible online formats and short-term coaching-style conversations as well as deeper therapeutic work. Those interested in starting complete a brief questionnaire and schedule a session based on availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Jaime uses psychodynamic work to look at recurring feelings and patterns that come from earlier life experiences. That approach helps people understand where strong reactions come from and how past relationships shape present choices. He also uses solution-focused therapy to set clear goals and try small, concrete changes that can make day-to-day life easier.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Jaime discusses a person’s needs, goals, and preferences and together they decide whether to emphasize insight, short-term problem solving, or a mix of both. The plan can change as progress happens so the work stays focused on what the person wants to achieve.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which makes scheduling more flexible for busy lives. These options allow conversations to happen from home, during breaks, or while traveling, and they let people use shorter check-ins or longer sessions depending on the issue. Jaime adapts his methods to fit each format so clients can get practical support and reflective work in ways that suit their routine.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Exploring how earlier relationships and patterns still shape the present, often over a longer stretch of time. It relies on conversation and reflection rather than exercises.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- New York, New Jersey
- Languages
- English, Spanish, Portuguese
Next step
Talk to Jaime
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