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    • WORD CASUALTIES
    • ON CHARACTER
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    • Performing Challenges
    • Therapy In The Performer’s Life
    • Compulsion and Addiction
    • Recovery
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    • On Subjectivity
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MARC D. SPETALNIK

PSYCHOTHERAPIST ABOUT My Blog

Please note:
I am currently providing my clients with
options for
in-person as well as teletherapy sessions.
(Updated September, 2025)

I’m a licensed psychotherapist practicing
on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

For twenty-six years my practice has provided care for adult individuals, couples, and their families. My clients are women and men of diverse ages, ethnicities and professional orientations, whose concerns and needs arise from a very wide range of distinct personal histories. I have intensive experience working with performing artists, and in treating persons whose lives have been impacted by compulsions and addictions.

No challenge, dilemma or crisis in life is either too minor or too severe that my professional experience may not prove helpful. If you bring to therapy those issues you feel nearly able to manage, but which could benefit from further understanding and attention: I can help you. If you are in crisis or deeply troubled; if you feel  immobilized; if you experience intense anxiety, or you are depressed: I can help you.

I hope that the time you spend looking through my site will provide an understanding of why and how I may be of service to you. If you have additional questions about my practice, feel free to contact me.

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Performers

Performing artists confront distinct challenges
related to their emotional vulnerability
to their audience, as well as
a range of other dilemmas associated with
the essential nature of the performing arts world
and their career paths within it.

Performers must occasionally trade the stage
for the dressing room, reclaim their essential self,
and interact spontaneously with others.

I can provide that metaphoric “dressing room”
in which the performer may re-discover
and cultivate an essential sense of being.

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Compulsions & Addictions

All things that attract us,
and which promise and sometimes deliver pleasure,
can also threaten to touch a strand of vulnerability woven into us all:
a latent potential for any gratifying experience
to be transformed into a force operating
beyond the reach of choice.
When such a condition fully emerges
it is called addiction.

I know and understand compulsive behavior
and the addictions;
I treat individuals at all levels of these challenging
and potentially tragic conditions,
and help them to reclaim and renew their lives.

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Ao Brasileiro

Meu atendimento clínico ao longo
de 21 anos de experiência abrange
toda a gama de transtornos psicológicos.
Além do diagnostico e da avaliação contínua
baseada em modelos psicológicos tradicionais,
é essencial ao meu método profissional
uma ênfase na sintonia cultural.

Acredito que a lingua materna é práticamente
indispensável na realização dessa tarefa clínica.
Sendo assim, o meu atendimento à você,
brasileiro, sera realizado com maior eficiência
através da lingua portuguesa agregada
ao meu conhecimento da realidade sócio-cultural do Brasil.

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WILL THERAPY HELP ME?

Whether we are meeting for the first time, or we have met and worked together previously ;

Whether we are beginning our conversation, or it is ongoing ;

Whether you feel anxious or depressed, stressed by urgent matters or crisis, or you are feeling at ease and thinking clearly,

Certain questions are likely to accompany you into the room we will share for the hour…

Learn How I Can Help You

Let’s plan to meet.

Call me at 917-674-8787 or Email: marc.spetalnik.lcsw@gmail.com

Contact Info

  • Marc D. Spetalnik, LCSW
  • 30 West 70th Street Suite 1-C, New York, NY 10023
  • 917-674-8787
  • marc.spetalnik.lcsw@gmail.com

My office is conveniently located in the Lincoln Center/Upper West Side area of Manhattan, just half a block away from Central Park and the B/C subway station.

Other nearby stations include the 1/2/3 lines at 72nd St. Station or the 1 line at the 66th St. Station.

Please feel free to call me to discuss how we can work together.

© 2026 Marc D. Spetalnik

  • HOME
  • MY VIEW OF MY PRACTICE
  • COMING TO THERAPY
  • FAQs
  • MY BLOGS
    • WORD CASUALTIES
    • ON CHARACTER
  • TOPICS AND PRACTICE AREAS
    • Performing Challenges
    • Therapy In The Performer’s Life
    • Compulsion and Addiction
    • Recovery
    • Ao Brasileiro
  • DIMENSIONS OF SELF
    • The Self (Ego) – Its Origins & Structure
    • Shame
    • Narcissism
    • What Is Neurosis?
    • Our Worldview
    • On Subjectivity
    • The Self In Relation
  • AO BRASILEIRO
  • CONTACT ME