OUR TEAM

KRISTY LAROCCA, MA, LMHC

Founder/Therapist/Supervisor

Kristy strives to provide a therapeutic environment where clients feel not only safe and non-judged but also truly seen and truly heard. She believes that securing a trusting and genuine bond with her clients is of utmost importance before any real therapy can begin. She works collaboratively with clients to help them understand themselves more deeply and evoke meaning in their challenges so that they can ultimately live life more fully and authentically. She provides the support needed for clients to begin taking steps outside of their comfort zones and toward facilitating the changes that they wish to see.

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Kristy has experience working with clients with a wide range of difficulties and is well versed in various theories of psychotherapy. She considers herself a genuinely integrative therapist, often adjusting her style to fit each client and their unique and evolving needs.

Kristy received her Masters in Mental Health Counseling from Brooklyn College and has taught psychology courses as an Adjunct Professor at Brooklyn College. She completed her internship at the Institute for Human Identity, one of NYC's leading training programs for LGBTQ+ affirmative psychotherapy, and has served the queer community as a Staff Therapist and Director of the Intern Training Program there for several years. Kristy is currently working on enhancing and expanding the Institute for Human Identity's LGBTQ+ Competency Training Program. Kristy also provides supervision and consultation services to other therapists and professionals. 

INNA DUKACH, MA, MHC-LP

Therapist

Inna approaches her work with clients as an evolving collaboration, fulfilling the profound and universal desire to be known and accepted. Using an integrative approach, Inna views effective therapy not as panacea, but as a ladder into the unknown: helping clients through obstacles towards specific goals, deeper into the self, outward toward another, and through challenging transitions.

For the past twenty years, Inna has worked and traveled internationally as a professional opera singer and coach. Her training and experience in the arts have given her deep insight into the particular challenges of performing artists. Inna understands that performing takes courage to embark upon and courage to be continually vulnerable in the face of constant rejection. She knows the joys and challenges of developing an artistic career, having the career, and transitioning out of the career. Her unique understanding could be helpful to others struggling to find themselves as artists and as people.

Born in Russia and raised in New York, Inna received a BA in Psychology from Smith College, an MA in Vocal Performance from Mannes College of Music, and an MA Mental Health Counseling from The City College of New York. She completed her internship at the Institute for Human Identity, where she received extensive training and experience in working with a variety of gender identities and sexualities, and in working with people in various life transitions, particularly with young adults and issues surrounding identity formation. 

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