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Skylar Larkyn

Meet Skylar Larkyn

Marriage & Family Therapist

Skylar Larkyn is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Connecticut, New York, and New Mexico. Skylar honors the individual’s innate ability to gain clarity, transform, heal, and thrive when given the correct circumstances, support, and guidance. She approaches the therapeutic relationship as a creative, collaborative, inspiring, and empowering journey unique to each individual and couple. Her authenticity and sensitivity create a space where the most sensitive clients can confide and trust so she can understand and help them.

Skylar earned a master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy from Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, Ct.  Skylar works with many clients, including individuals, couples, parents, and business people. Her expertise involves helping individuals and families struggling with life circumstances, marital and family issues, communication issues, trauma, PTSD, depression, anger, and addiction recovery issues. Personal conflict coping

She has extensive experience treating high-functioning couples and their spouses, with a specific focus on communication issues, intimacy stressors, financial stressors, and infidelity of one or both partners in stressful positions and implications. The fight or flight survival responses accord negative interpretations and projections onto another person, situation, or environment, limiting the individual, couple, or family to stay present, transparent, open, and balanced—skills and bridging vastly different communication styles within couples.

Skylar uses a holistic approach, combining mind/body/energy practices and integrating them. She combines traditional Western psychology and energy healing in a psychotherapeutic setting the teachings. She utilizes practices of emotion-focused therapy, Solution-focused, EMDR, Integrative Breathwork, Shamanic Reiki, Gestalt, meditation, and solution-focused/heart-centered relationship treatment. Her commitment to education and professional training helps her better understand and meet each client’s unique needs and achieve client-defined goals collaboratively with skill, respectful pacing, compassion, humor, and lasting results.

Professional Memberships

American Psychological Association (APA)
Connecticut Psychological Association (CPA)
American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT)

Licenses

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, State of Connecticut (#716)

Affiliations