
I believe healing begins when people feel truly seen, heard, and accepted. My hope is to provide a space where clients can better understand themselves, strengthen their resilience, and move toward the life they want to create.
Welcome
Rina Gorvokaj is a psychotherapist at Repose. She enjoys working with children, adolescents, young adults, and adults. Many of her clients are navigating anxiety, trauma, strong emotions, relationship concerns, or life transitions.
Rina works to create a warm, collaborative space. Clients can feel understood and supported as they build resilience at a pace that suits them. Her style is integrative and trauma-informed, shaped around each person's needs. Many clients come to her wanting to feel steadier with difficult emotions. Her experience teaching yoga and meditation also gives her a holistic, mind-body perspective.
Clinical background
Rina Gorvokaj's clinical background
Service Locations
- Westchester - Pleasantville, NY
- Online in New York
Insurance Accepted
- Aetna (including PPO, HMO, Meritain Health, 1199 SEIU National Benefits Fund and Aetna Student plans)
- Wellfleet Student (NYU, School of Visual Arts, Sarah Lawrence College, etc.)
- Northwell Direct
- Out-Of-Network Benefits Reimbursement
Therapeutic Modalities
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Mindfulness
- Somatic Interventions
- Person-Centered Therapy
- Strengths-Based Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing (MI)
- Attachment-Based Interventions
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Informed Care
Clinical Expertise
- Anxiety and Stress Management
- Trauma Recovery
- Life Transitions and Identity Development
- Depression
- Grief and Loss
- Self-Esteem
- Relationship Challenges
- Family Conflict
- Boundary Setting
- Perfectionism
- People-Pleasing
- Burnout
- Emotional Regulation
- Attachment Concerns
- Women's Issues
- College and Career Stress
- Coping Skills
- Personal Growth
Client Focus
- Children
- Adolescents
- Young adults
- Adults
Education
- Master of Social Work (clinical concentration), Silberman School of Social Work at CUNY Hunter College
- Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, CUNY Hunter College
Certifications and Training
- Licensed Master Social Worker
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
- Trauma-Informed Care
- Behavioral & Crisis Intervention
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Languages
- Albanian
- English
- Spanish
Licenses
- New York Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW)
Working together
How Rina can support you
People often come to Rina for support with anxiety and stress, recovery after trauma, and life transitions and identity. She also works with depression, grief and loss, self-esteem, and relationship or family conflict. Other common themes include boundary setting, perfectionism, people-pleasing, and burnout. She supports emotional regulation, attachment concerns, women's issues, college and career stress, coping skills, and personal growth.
Rina hopes clients leave therapy with a deeper understanding of themselves. She hopes they find healthier ways to meet life's challenges and feel more confident with difficult emotions. Her aim is to help clients feel connected to their strengths, with practical tools they can keep using after therapy ends.
Her approach
Rina's approach
Rina uses an integrative, trauma-informed approach. Her work includes Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
She also draws on mindfulness, somatic interventions, person-centered and strengths-based therapy, and Motivational Interviewing (MI). Attachment-based interventions and solution-focused therapy are part of her work too. Her experience teaching yoga and meditation informs a holistic, mind-body view of emotional well-being.
Why Rina
Why work with Rina
Rina understands how past experiences shape the present. She draws on evidence-based approaches, including EMDR, to help clients process difficult experiences safely.
She enjoys helping clients understand their emotions rather than fear them. Together, you build practical skills for managing overwhelming feelings, strengthening relationships, and growing in confidence.
Rina sees every client as unique. She tailors therapy to your goals, strengths, and pace, within a warm and nonjudgmental relationship.
About
About Rina Gorvokaj
Rina earned her Master of Social Work, with a clinical concentration, from the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, and she has completed training in EMDR. Outside of work, she enjoys writing and recording music, singing, and playing guitar. She also loves traveling, spending time in nature, exploring new coffee shops, and staying active. Rina believes creativity can be a meaningful source of healing and personal growth.
Influences
Albanian Culture, Yoga, Meditation
Rituals
Ecstatic Dance, Singing, Traditional Albanian coffee readings, Hiking, Sauna
Library
All About Love (bell hooks); The Art of Living (Thích Nhất Hạnh); Atomic Habits (James Clear); Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Isabel Wilkerson; The Prophet (Kahlil Gibran)
Areas of focus at Repose
Where Rina can help
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Schedule a consultationRina Gorvokaj, LMSW, provides services in person at our Pleasantville office and online in New York.