Dr. Sahar Khoshakhlagh , LMFT

Dr. Sahar Khoshakhlagh is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in New York with two decades of clinical experience supporting individuals, couples, and families through difficult transitions. She specializes in stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, self-esteem struggles, LGBT issues, family and caregiver stress, career challenges, and compassion fatigue, and she also addresses attachment and abandonment wounds, codependency, communication and control issues, infidelity, and isolation.

Her work is guided by an attachment-focused lens - she pays close attention to how early experiences of love and safety influence present-day relationships and emotional patterns. In sessions she combines warmth with clinical rigor, conducting thorough assessments to understand each person as a whole and collaborating on goals that feel meaningful and achievable rather than predetermined. Her approach integrates systems thinking, emotionally focused methods to deepen connection, cognitive behavioral techniques for practical coping, and mindfulness practices when helpful.

Educationally, Dr. Khoshakhlagh holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from California State University, Fullerton, a Master of Arts in Applied Psychology from New York University, and a Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) in Couples and Family Therapy from the California School of Professional Psychology. She is fluent in English and Persian. Dr. Khoshakhlagh is not currently accepting new clients.