The common fear about trauma therapy is being asked to narrate the worst thing that ever happened to you, to a stranger, on the first day. That is not how paced trauma work runs, and a therapist pushing for it would be doing it wrong.
MindView Therapy provides trauma-focused therapy for adults across Queens, online by secure video.
What trauma treatment is, and is not
The memory is not usually the first target. What gets treated first is the present: the sleep, the startle, the flat numbness, the anger that arrives ahead of thought, the avoidance that has quietly reorganized your week around places you do not go and things you do not do.
Many people get substantial relief from that stage alone. Whether you go on to work on the traumatic material directly is a decision you make later, with information, not something the intake form commits you to.
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.
We are not an intensive outpatient program and not an inpatient service. We do not prescribe medication, though your therapist can coordinate with a prescriber. We are not a crisis service.
We see adults only. If the person who needs help is under 18, we are not the right service and will tell you so rather than take the booking.
What a session involves
You set the pace, and that is meant literally rather than as reassurance. You can decline any question. If a session is heading somewhere you are not ready for, saying so is part of the therapy rather than a failure of it.
Sessions have a shape: what is going on now, what set the alarm off this week, what you avoided and what it cost. Progress is checked with standardized measures so improvement is verified rather than assumed.
We work with PTSD, childhood trauma, emotional abuse, narcissistic abuse recovery, betrayal trauma and intergenerational trauma. More on how we treat trauma.
Doing this work in Queens
Queens is the most linguistically and nationally diverse county in the United States, and 47.6% of residents here are foreign born, more than double the share in Buffalo or Syracuse (US Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024 five-year estimates, table B05002). That shapes trauma treatment in this borough more than any other single factor.
Three things follow from it. First, a significant share of the trauma people bring here happened before they arrived: war, displacement, the migration itself, or what was left behind. That is treatable, and it is not an exotic case in this borough, it is a routine one.
Second, intergenerational patterns are extremely common and rarely named out loud. What gets described as “how my family is” is often a survival adaptation from a previous generation that made sense then and costs something now. Putting a name to it is frequently the most useful hour of the early work.
Third, privacy carries different weight here. In tight communities where families know each other across generations and neighborhoods, being seen going to therapy can carry a real social cost, and that keeps people out of treatment for years. Video removes the waiting room from the equation entirely.
There is a related gap worth naming. 31.9% of Queens adults report rarely or never getting the social and emotional support they need (CDC PLACES, 2025 release, based on 2023 BRFSS data), which in a borough this densely populated says something specific: being surrounded by people is not the same as having somewhere to put this.
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. We check your plan and tell you your cost before the first session.
Questions people ask before booking
Do I have to talk about what happened? Not in the first session, and not at any point before you and your therapist have agreed it is the right time. Some people do substantial work without ever narrating the event in detail.
I do not have a diagnosis. You do not need one, or a referral, to book.
Does trauma therapy work over video? Research comparing video-delivered therapy with in-person therapy has generally found similar results for trauma treatment.
What if it happened a long time ago? Time since the event does not determine whether treatment helps. People come decades later, often when something reopens it.
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, and you can read more about our Jamaica, Queens location. We are accepting new clients and respond within one business day.