Talya Shomron
Psychodynamic Therapy for Individuals and Couples
New York | Mallorca | Online
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Welcome!
I work with adults and couples navigating anxiety, relationship challenges, life transitions, and parenting strain, drawing on over twenty years of clinical experience. Our work together unfolds through sustained dialogue and reflection. Rather than focusing on quick fixes, we attend to the deeper patterns shaping your emotional and relational life.
About Me:
I earned my undergraduate degree from Barnard College (Columbia University) and then graduated with a Master’s in Clinical Social Work from New York University. While being immersed in the field, I completed a four-year postgraduate program in Contemporary Psychoanalysis at The National Institute for Psychoanalysis - a training which emphasized my commitment to depth, dialogue, and the conviction that meaningful change emerges through sustained attention to both inner life and relational experience.
Over time, my fascination with relational dynamics — how early experiences reverberate in adult intimacy, how conflict both conceals and reveals longing — led me to explore couples work more explicitly. I completed advanced training in Couples Therapy through a program at The Institute for Mental Health, studying with leading clinicians in the field. Integrating psychoanalytic depth with contemporary relational approaches has allowed me to work with couples in ways that are both rigorous and alive to the immediacy of lived experience.
This integration naturally extended into supervision. Alongside my clinical practice, I provide supervision privately and at The National Institute for the Psychotherapies, supporting therapists in developing their clinical voice, deepening their relational thinking, and working with greater nuance and confidence.
Although a native New Yorker, I have lived and traveled extensively. These experiences continue to inform my sensitivity to cultural context and identity, shaping my work across communities in both New York and Mallorca.
Individual Therapy:
Individual therapy offers space to reflect on the patterns that shape your emotional life, relationships, and sense of self. Often, difficulties that feel immediate or situational are connected to longer-standing ways of relating, coping, or protecting oneself. By bringing these patterns into awareness, new possibilities can begin to emerge.
My work is grounded in psychodynamic and relational thinking. This means we attend not only to symptoms, but to the underlying dynamics that sustain them. The therapeutic relationship itself becomes part of the work — a space where recurring relational themes can be observed, understood, and gradually transformed.
With over twenty years of clinical experience, I approach this process with steadiness, curiosity, and care. Therapy unfolds through sustained dialogue and reflection, at a pace that allows for depth without losing practical relevance.
Couples Therapy:
Couples often seek therapy when they feel caught in painful cycles, facing significant strain, or struggling to understand one another despite genuine care. Others come not in crisis, but with the wish to strengthen and deepen an already meaningful partnership. Whatever brings you, beginning couples therapy requires courage. My role is to provide a steady, nonjudgmental space where both partners can reflect, speak openly, and better understand the patterns shaping their relationship.
With many years of experience working with couples, I approach this work with both structure and flexibility. Sessions focus on slowing down recurring dynamics, clarifying misunderstandings, and creating conditions where each partner feels heard without escalation or withdrawal.
My work with couples draws from Imago Couples Therapy, a structured and compassionate framework that helps partners explore how early relational experiences influence present-day patterns of connection and conflict. Rather than focusing solely on resolving arguments, we attend to the deeper emotional currents beneath them. The aim is not simply to eliminate conflict, but to cultivate greater understanding, emotional safety, and mutual responsiveness.
If relevant, in our work together, we explore sexual concerns from multiple perspectives. Intimacy is complex and deeply personal, and difficulties can emerge for many different reasons — relational, emotional, medical, cultural, or developmental. There is no single path we must follow; instead, we work collaboratively to understand what is shaping your experience. A significant part of my approach draws from Narrative Relational Sex Therapy (NRST), which helps individuals and couples examine the personal and cultural stories that influence desire, shame, expectation, and connection. Bringing these narratives into awareness often clarifies patterns that previously felt confusing or stuck. At the same time, we also attend to practical and physiological factors when relevant, recognizing that sexual well-being involves both relational and embodied dimensions. The aim is not to impose a framework, but to create space for honest exploration, understanding, and greater ease in your intimate life.
Supervision:
In addition to my clinical practice, I provide supervision and consultation to psychotherapists at various stages of their professional development. I serve as a supervisor at The National Institute for the Psychotherapies and work privately with clinicians seeking to deepen their clinical thinking and expand their capacity for complex relational work.
My approach to supervision is collaborative, rigorous, and reflective. I support therapists in developing their own voice while strengthening their theoretical grounding and confidence in the room. Our work often attends not only to technique, but to the emotional and relational dynamics that shape the therapeutic encounter.