Trauma treatment asks something most therapy does not: that you approach material you have organized your life around not approaching. Whether that is worth doing, and when, is your decision. This page is about how the work runs so you can make it with real information.
MindView Therapy provides trauma-focused therapy for adults across Hempstead and Nassau County, online by secure video.
Nothing hard happens on day one
The most common fear about trauma therapy is being made to narrate the worst thing that ever happened to you to a stranger immediately. That is not how this works, and a therapist pushing for it would be doing it wrong.
The early work is about the present: how you are sleeping, what the startle response is doing, the dissociation, the anger that arrives ahead of thought. Stabilization comes first, and a lot of people get substantial relief from that stage alone. Whether you work on the traumatic material directly, and when, is agreed with you rather than assumed.
You can decline any question. If a session heads somewhere you are not ready for, saying so is part of the therapy, not a failure of it.
What we offer, and what we do not
Weekly individual trauma-focused therapy for adults 18 and over, by video. Your therapist uses cognitive processing therapy and trauma-focused therapy, structured protocols where exposure to difficult material is graded, planned and agreed in advance rather than sprung on you.
We are not an intensive outpatient or inpatient service, we do not prescribe medication, and we are not a crisis service. We see adults only.
We also do not provide forensic evaluations, and we do not write assessments or reports for immigration or court proceedings. That is a specialist service and if it is what you need, you need someone who does it.
What a session involves
You bring the week. Progress is checked with standardized measures so improvement is verified rather than assumed, and your therapist will tell you plainly if the approach is not working rather than letting drift pass for progress.
We work with PTSD, childhood trauma, emotional abuse, narcissistic abuse recovery, and intergenerational trauma. More on how we treat trauma.
Doing this work in Hempstead
Privacy here is a practical concern rather than a delicate one. Hempstead is dense and its communities are tightly connected. 72.6% of households are family households, one of the highest shares of anywhere we serve, and 38.6% of residents are foreign born (US Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024 five-year estimates, tables B11001 and B05002). For a lot of people the deciding factor is not whether therapy would help, but whether anyone will know they are in it.
Walking into a local waiting room where you might see a neighbor, a relative or someone from work is a genuine deterrent, and it keeps people out of treatment for years. Video removes the waiting room and the parking lot from the equation. For trauma work specifically, that tends to be the difference between starting and not starting.
Access is the other half of it. 15.9% of Hempstead adults report having no personal doctor or health care provider, the highest rate of the New York cities we serve, and 33.8% report rarely or never getting the social and emotional support they need (CDC PLACES, 2025 release, based on 2023 BRFSS data). Those two numbers describe the same problem from different angles: people carrying a lot, with fewer places to put it and less connection to care.
The body keeps the score in a measurable way here too. 50.1% of Hempstead adults report sleeping less than seven hours a night, the highest short-sleep rate of any place we serve (CDC PLACES, 2025 release, based on 2022 BRFSS data). Sleep is one of the first things trauma disrupts and one of the first things treatment targets, partly because it is achievable early and partly because everything else is harder without it.
Getting to an appointment is a real constraint too, in a village where 19.2% of workers commute by public transit and shift work is common (US Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024 five-year estimates, table B08006). A session you can take from wherever you are private, without a bus transfer on either end, is a session that actually happens.
Insurance
We are in-network with UnitedHealthcare, Aetna, Medicare, Oscar Health, Meritain Health, Oxford Health Plans, Cigna, Optum, Highmark BCBS WNY, Univera Healthcare and MagnaCare. Benefits are verified before your first session, so cost is not an open question while you are deciding whether to start.
Questions people ask before booking
Will I have to describe what happened? Not at the start, and not before you and your therapist agree it is the right time. Some people do substantial work without ever narrating the event in detail.
Do I need a diagnosis or a referral? Neither.
It happened years ago. Is it too late? No. Time since the event does not determine whether treatment helps, and people commonly come decades later when something reopens it.
Does this work over video? Research comparing video-delivered therapy with in-person therapy has generally found similar results for trauma treatment.
If you are in crisis
We are not a crisis service. If you are having thoughts of harming yourself, call or text 988, any hour, free and confidential. If you are in immediate danger, call 911. If you are experiencing domestic violence, the National Domestic Violence Hotline is 1-800-799-7233.
How to get started
Choose a time and book at choose your therapist. It takes about 30 seconds. You can also call (646) 493-4007. We are accepting new clients and respond within one business day.