Radical Parts Work Therapy

Radical Parts Work is a practice for expanding self-expression and uncovering parts of your personality. This work emphasizes spontaneity and play.

We use techniques from parts work therapy, acting classes, and drama therapy to explore repressed or forgotten parts of our emotional worlds. Through role play, monologue, and movement, you might uncover your inner seductress, your nurturing adult, your joyful child.

For Fall 2026: sessions will start first week in September and meet in midtown Manhattan for 12 weeks. There will be three options: a Monday group (5-7), a Tuesday group (7-9), and a Thursday group (7-9). Sessions are $60 per session, but I take most major insurances for the work.

In a typical session, we:

-Warm-up to get the mind moving from more conscious to more intuitive places.

-Enact scenes, either solo or in discourse with another person, to let personas come out to play.

-Integrate: Learn how that persona lives in the larger map of you as a person.

Goals for the work include:

-Lowering the "smart" defenses.

-Getting into the body.

-Listening with an open mind.

-Increasing spontaneity.

Please email me at ilana.simons@gmail.com for more info.