Joy

Ripplinger

Joy Ripplinger, MA, LMHC is a licensed mental health counselor and the founder of Sentient Psychotherapy in New York City. With over 10 years of experience, Joy specializes in helping high-achieving professionals overcome anxiety, trauma, and relationship issues.

Joy holds advanced degrees in Mental Health Counseling, Human Development, and Gender Studies. She is trained in several evidence-based therapeutic approaches, including:

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
• Somatic Experiencing (SE)
• Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)[1]

As a gender queer therapist, Joy also specializes in working with LGBTQIA+ individuals and couples.

Joy's approach integrates behavioral interventions with mindfulness and compassion to help clients develop psychological flexibility and address self-sabotaging tendencies. She creates a warm, professional, and safe space where clients can explore their emotions and develop skills to make positive life changes.

Before becoming a therapist, Joy had a successful career as a musical theater choreographer and Broadway dancer. This background informs her creative approach to therapy. She has also taught as an adjunct professor at Brooklyn College and supervises post-graduate therapists in training. Joy is a member of the American Counseling Association, the Psychedelic Medicine Association, and the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science.