Dr. Sahar Khoshakhlagh

Dr. Sahar Khoshakhlagh is a New York-based marriage and family therapist with two decades of clinical experience helping individuals, couples, and families through difficult transitions. She works with people facing stress and anxiety, relationship challenges, grief and intimacy-related concerns, low self-esteem, LGBT issues, family conflict, career difficulties, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue.

Her work is informed by an attachment-focused perspective. She pays close attention to how early experiences of safety, connection, and love shape present-day patterns, and she combines clinical expertise with a warm, collaborative approach so clients feel supported as they explore change.

Intake begins with a thorough assessment designed to capture the whole person rather than just symptoms, and goals are set to be meaningful and achievable for each client. Dr. Khoshakhlagh draws on a range of methods she has found effective over the years - systems therapy to map relational dynamics, emotionally focused therapy to strengthen connection, cognitive behavioral techniques for practical skills, mindfulness practices to increase present-moment awareness, and other approaches tailored to each situation.

While she does not promise specific outcomes, many clients find that symptoms become more manageable, communication becomes more authentic, boundaries clearer, self-awareness grows, and coping strategies feel more dependable. Moments that feel most significant often include a renewed sense of agency in relationships, emotions feeling less overwhelming, and reconnecting with parts of oneself that had felt distant. Dr. Khoshakhlagh aims to walk alongside clients with curiosity and hope while respecting that lasting change unfolds at each person’s own pace.

Her academic training began with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at California State University, Fullerton, where she also studied Peace Studies. She earned a Master of Arts in Applied Psychology from New York University and completed a Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) in Couples and Family Therapy at the California School of Professional Psychology, where her work emphasized relational systems theory, adult attachment patterns, and sexual intimacy dynamics. This training shaped the lens she uses to understand how people connect, disconnect, and reconnect with those who matter most.