Let the light
back in.
Now accepting new clients. Start with a free fifteen minutes, no commitment to continue.
A quiet practice
You are not a problem to be solved.
You are a person to be understood, slowly and without hurry.
Aubade is a small collective of licensed therapists working in Brooklyn and online. We take on fewer clients than we could, so that nobody becomes a case number.
Est. 2019 · Brooklyn, New York
Ways in
Four ways in.
One direction: forward.
50 min · Online or in studio
Individual therapy
A one-to-one space to untangle anxiety, low mood, burnout or grief, at a pace that feels bearable.
75 min · In studio
Couples therapy
For partners who still care but keep having the same argument. We slow the pattern down, together.
75 min · In studio
Family sessions
Rebuilding trust across generations, from teenagers finding their words to parents finding theirs.
8 weeks · Online
Group circles
Small, facilitated groups for grief, new parents and burnout. Eight weeks, eight people, no pressure to share.
Clinicians
The people who
keep the lamp on.
Different training, one shared belief: you are the expert on your own life. We help you trust that again.
Voices
Quiet changes,
in their own words.
I came in thinking I needed to be fixed. I left understanding I’d been surviving, and that I could finally put some of it down.
Maya, 31
Individual therapy · Anxiety & burnout
We’d stopped talking about anything that mattered. Samuel gave us a way back to each other without ever picking a side.
Jonah & Priya
Couples therapy · 6 months
The circle was the first place I said out loud that I wasn’t okay after my son was born. Eight strangers became my people.
Elena, 36
Group circles · New parents
I had been performing fine for years. Theo was the first person who asked what it was costing me, and then waited for the real answer.
Daniel, 44
Individual therapy · Burnout
Nadia never rushed my grief or tried to tidy it. Some weeks we just sat with it, and somehow that was what moved it.
Amira, 29
Individual therapy · Grief
Our daughter started talking at dinner again. Nobody fixed her. We all learned how to listen differently.
The Okoro family
Family sessions · 4 months
I came in thinking I needed to be fixed. I left understanding I’d been surviving, and that I could finally put some of it down.
Maya, 31
Individual therapy · Anxiety & burnout
We’d stopped talking about anything that mattered. Samuel gave us a way back to each other without ever picking a side.
Jonah & Priya
Couples therapy · 6 months
The circle was the first place I said out loud that I wasn’t okay after my son was born. Eight strangers became my people.
Elena, 36
Group circles · New parents
I had been performing fine for years. Theo was the first person who asked what it was costing me, and then waited for the real answer.
Daniel, 44
Individual therapy · Burnout
Nadia never rushed my grief or tried to tidy it. Some weeks we just sat with it, and somehow that was what moved it.
Amira, 29
Individual therapy · Grief
Our daughter started talking at dinner again. Nobody fixed her. We all learned how to listen differently.
The Okoro family
Family sessions · 4 months
Shared with permission. Names and details have been changed to protect privacy.
Journal
Notes for
the small hours.
Short, honest writing from our clinicians on anxiety, grief, love and rest.
Anxiety
6 min read
The 3 a.m. mind, and what to do with it
Why everything feels unsolvable in the small hours, and a kinder plan than lying there arguing with yourself.
Grief
7 min read
Grief does not move in stages
The five stages were never meant to be a staircase. A truer picture of what mourning is actually like.
Relationships
5 min read
Same fight, different day
Why couples have one argument in a hundred costumes, and how to step out of it mid-sentence.