Kylie Horner

I'm Kylie Horner, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and psychoanalytic psychotherapist with practices in Beacon, NY in the Hudson Valley and Manhattan. I work with adults across all stages of life, though I'm especially drawn to supporting those navigating college and early adulthood, where so much surfaces at once and therapy can be particularly transformative.

My background spans journalism, corporate settings, and clinical social services — including work at Safe Horizon and the NYU McSilver Institute — before establishing a private practice rooted in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic principles.

I believe therapy works when there is genuine openness on both sides. My role is to offer a space that is direct, non-judgmental, and attuned — where you can learn about yourself with acceptance and compassion.

I draw on a range of therapeutic approaches to support both symptom relief and a deeper understanding of who you are and how you came to be that way. We are each shaped by what we've inherited, what we've lived through, and potentials within us that haven't yet found their full expression.

At times I also draw on Attachment-Focused EMDR, which attends not just to “Big T” traumatic events but to cumulative early relational wounds — ruptures in safety, attunement, and connection — that shape how we carry pain and the beliefs we have about ourselves. It uses bilateral stimulation to help the nervous system integrate negative emotions and beliefs connected to past experiences.

These approaches are experiential as much as they are intellectual — change doesn't only come from insight, but from what is felt and lived in the room. I see therapy not just as a thinking space, but a feeling and being space.