Relationships & Romance
It is a joy to be hidden but
a disaster not to be found.
D. W. Winnicott
Dr. Masha Mimran is a licensed psychoanalyst in New York City and received her psychoanalytic training at The Institute of Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) in New York City. Dr. Mimran is in private practice in NYC where she sees adults, couples, and also works as an organizational consultant for businesses, organizations, and family offices.
In addition to her work as a clinician and organizational consultant, Dr. Mimran remains highly engaged in the world of psychoanalysis outside of the consulting room. She is a member at IPTAR where she serves on the Faculty, chairs numerous programs including the IPTAR Program Committee and Faculty Curriculum Committee, and supervises training candidates in the field of psychoanalysis. Dr. Mimran also serves on the faculty of the Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis at NYU, chairs the Fellowship Program at the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA), and is Director of Continued Education at The Loewald Center, where she previously held the position of Director of Programming.
Dr. Mimran also is deeply invested in the intellectual and emotional growth of psychoanalytic theory and technique and its contemporary iterations. She serves on the editorial board of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly and is Book Review Editor for Psychoanalytic Psychology. Prior to her career in mental health, Dr. Mimran received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Princeton University (2012) and was teaching literature and language at Barnard College, Columbia University.
Relationships & Romance
Marriage & Divorce
Menopause
Masculinity
Improving the Health of Your Organization Towards Higher Performance
Broadening Your Network
Fostering a Sense of Belonging at Work
Navigating Leadership Positions
Navigating Working on a Team
To provide a space where you and I work together at bringing forth your full potential so as to thrive in the directions of your choices and to bring a deeper understanding of yourself and how you move in the world. Together, we discover your mind and make the steps ahead feel lighter, grounded, and more fulfilling.
Drawing upon my training in psychoanalysis, I believe that together we uncover unconscious patterns that have held you back so as to make way for new ones that bring you closer to a sense of inner fulfillment and empowerment.
— Dr. Masha Mimran, Ph.D.
My work as a psychoanalyst, along with close experience with families, group work, and businesses, has led me to see the ways in which psychoanalysis can truly help disentangle, explore, and understand the dynamics that pertain to groups—dynamics that ultimately impact morale, the desire to thrive, and trust, both at work and within family life. These dynamics, both conscious and unconscious, are like tectonic plates that shift and modify our work or family environment.
I work with you and your team—or with your family—to address the issues we can detect together and explore. Our understanding of these issues benefits the overall health of the group: better relationships, the establishing (or re-establishing) of balance, drive, and trust that are necessary to productivity and well-being. Successes in organizations cannot be accomplished in an environment hindered by unresolved conflict between and amongst its community.
My approach to treatment is very richly informed by my training in psychoanalysis and my continued education in the field. I do belong to what might be called today "Contemporary Freudians." With this said, I also believe very strongly that each treatment is unique, just as each individual is — the eclecticism and wealth of my field has taught me to never assume that technique and therapeutic action are a one-for-all formula. It is together that we experience an environment that opens up the space for my patients to work through their conflicts, explore their difficulties and wishes, and develop stronger and clearer psychic paths to achieve their unique goals.
I provide a warm, non-judgmental, and inquisitive space where growth and psychic development can begin to flourish so that you can get closer to your goals. While always curious, patient, and on your side, I also have a pragmatic side to myself that helps us not lose sight of the goals we outline together. In other words, I keep being curious about you, all the while holding in mind that you have come to me with a specific wish — whether you and I are aware of this wish yet is part of the story we will weave together. I work in once or twice weekly therapy sessions, with individuals or couples, and also provide more intensive psychoanalytic three to four times weekly treatment, on the couch.
No magic — simply a relationship, and there is magic in listening to oneself when our words and thoughts are safely guarded and understood by another.
— Dr. Masha Mimran, Ph.D.
Let's begin to explore together.
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Let's understand them to get to know you
They draw the story and history of our psychic life and are present in every situation — love, work, friendships. Let’s begin to understand the most important one; the relationship you have with yourself.
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We all need play
Here we can turn to Winnicott —”It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.”
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It is ok to crave it
In today’s world, we often hear about the possible plight of “co-dependence.” Emotional security, however, is about the integration of both depending on others all the while feeling valued on one’s own. In other words, let’s not shame the human impulse to depend on others and let’s think together about what this has meant to you.
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Let's use it wisely
What does the unconscious have to do with it? In exploring this together, we will unearth how to feel more aligned with your wishes.
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Let's attend to it
Feeling depressed, lonely, stuck. Getting up in the morning feels like an impossible task. Your mind and your body are telling you something. Let’s listen together. You don’t need to do this alone.
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Let's take it seriously
Freud certainly knew how anxiety is a “signal” – let’s hear it together.
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Let's talk
Our sexuality and sexual fantasies are inherent parts of our internal life and psychic make-up. Here, much of our story can be traced and understood.
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Let's confront it
Fearful feelings are very powerful and can greatly impact our choices. When we understand our fears, we begin to see ways in which we might be risking ourselves when feeling protected -and perhaps protecting ourselves from many other feelings we may not have considered (shame, guilt, and even joy and pleasure).
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So key to everything we do and may not do
In my experience, shame can be the most difficult feeling to detect and to talk about. It often is ever present and yet so easily brushed off; perhaps because it is a feeling that necessarily involves the other.
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Let's not make it ugly
Let’s explore together how possible feelings of envy contribute so destructively to our capacity for growth.
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So much to think about
Traumatic experiences can take control of our lives and shape the way we move through the world – often without our awareness. Let’s begin to understand them together.
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Remember the adoration of the golden cow and G-d's wrath?
Anger can be a masquerade. By this I mean that anger often hides much deeper and more difficult emotions to contend with; shame, profound hurt, intolerable feelings of humiliation.
You don't need to have it all figured out before you reach out. You don't need the right words. You just need to take the first step.
Research, metrics, and evidence that shape our approach.
Yes — I work both in person and remotely, and both can be meaningful and productive.
My office is located at 115 East 60th Street in Manhattan. For those in New York City or nearby, I have a preference for meeting in person, particularly at the start of treatment. There is something about the shared physical space — the consistency of the room, the presence of the other — that I find contributes to the depth and texture of the work in ways that are harder to replicate on screen.
That said, I am fully available via video for patients who live further afield or whose schedules make remote sessions the more sustainable choice. We can discuss what works best for you.
The rhythm of our work together is something we figure out collaboratively — there is no single answer that fits every person or every moment in treatment.
For many patients, meeting once or twice a week provides enough continuity to go deep while fitting the demands of daily life. For those engaged in a more intensive psychoanalytic process, more frequent sessions — three to five times a week — can open up a different kind of space, one that allows unconscious material to emerge more fully and be explored more thoroughly.
We will think about what makes sense for you together, taking into account your goals, your schedule, and the nature of what you’d like to work on. Frequency is never fixed — it can evolve as the treatment does.
My standard fee for individual sessions is $400. I believe that good psychoanalytic care should be accessible, and so I do reserve a limited number of spots at reduced fees — for individuals, couples, or families for whom the full rate presents a genuine obstacle. This is something we can discuss openly and without judgment.
For organizational consulting, fees depend on the scope and structure of the engagement — whether we are working at the level of leadership, a team, or the wider organization. I am happy to speak about this in an initial consultation.
I do not participate in insurance panels, but I can provide documentation that some patients use to seek partial reimbursement through their out-of-network benefits.