New York City-based Cognitive Behavior Therapy Counseling for Individuals and Couples

A Mental Health Resource for Your Life’s Journey

Life is hard and resources can be helpful in navigating its challenges. Whether you are struggling with anxiety, depression, chronic pain, OCD, or are just feeling lost, going to therapy is one of the most beautifully selfish things you can do. And it starts by finding the right tools and resources.

I am Greg Jordan, LCSW- I practice Cognitive Behavioral Therapy offering both virtual and in-person counseling for individuals and couples in New York. I would love to connect to see if I might be the right resource for you on your path to value-based living. Please keep scrolling for more information on Services Offered, Background/Approach, CBT and Treatment Overview, and/or to Get in Touch.

Services

Individual Counseling

Clients meet for 50-minute sessions (in-person or virtually), starting out weekly. We will introduce and integrate the Cognitive Model and CBT skills to help bring awareness to how we process situations, thoughts, and emotions. As clients become more mindful of these processes, we look to understand the larger historical patterns to facilitate sustaining behavioral change.

Couple’s Counseling

Similarly to Individual Counseling, couples work to understand their individual patterns of processing as well as how it relates to interpersonal communication dynamics in their relationships. Couples work on both individual and shared skills to engage in transparent, clear communication.

Workshops

Odyssey CBT offers workshops and professional development opportunities across a number of specialized areas of clinical focus. Please see the Workshops page for more information.

Background/Approach

Background

My name is Greg Jordan- in addition to being a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and as you might see below, I am familiar with being a bit lost and uncertain. These feelings are natural and part of the human experience, so I am very grateful for the resources that have helped me be a little less uncertain and a little less lost in life.

Like many lost young people, I went to a liberal arts college where I thought four years of exploring would be enough time to “figure it out.” It wasn’t. After graduating from Hamilton College with a BA in Classical Studies and Religious Studies, I spent time wandering Corporate America through advertising sales and legal services. At this time, I began volunteering in after-school programs, where I thought I might have had it figured out. I transitioned career trajectories once again into teaching, spending the next few years in the New York City Charter School systems as an elementary and middle school teacher.

In my time teaching kids and pursuing a Masters in Education, I was drawn to the emotional and cognitive components of education, leading to a deeper desire to understand mental wellbeing. As a result, I transitioned to social work.

I am a graduate of New York University’s Silver School of Social Work, where I studied Cognitive Behavior Therapy, completing my advanced standing internship in a CBT specialized private practice, where I received supervised training in CBT in addition to completing training with the Beck Institute and in Trial Based Cognitive Therapy (TBCT). After graduating in 2019, I spent six years receiving additional CBT training and supervision at private practice in Manhattan until opening Odyssey CBT in September 2025. And so the journey continues.

Approach

CBT is known as a present and future-oriented approach, but unfortunately when we first meet, we will be almost complete strangers. As such, we start with the intake phase of therapy where we will do a deeper dive into presenting concerns and relevant historical information. As we get a sense of clinical focus, we will introduce and begin to integrate the basics of CBT with the cognitive model. The early part of our work we will be collecting data around the way that your brain processes situations and the emotional & behavioral responses. I encourage clients to engage with a lens of curiosity as we understand seemingly surface level habits of processing to uncover and address deeper patterns & narratives upholding negative core beliefs. In addition to understanding the cognitive genesis of these patterns, we will also look to rewrite them with healthy coping skills and activation for sustainable behavioral changes.

Validate. Calibrate. Go.

Validate: What are you feeling? It is real. It may be a bit out of calibration based on what your brain is saying, but the feeling is real.
Calibrate: If the feeling is valid, is it calibrated to the proper intensity? Can we calibrate this back to the facts and for value-based living?
Go: How do you want to respond to take care of yourself to the appropriate intensity of what you are feeling?

What is CBT?

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a goal-focused, future-oriented modality that looks to evaluate the relationship between the brain’s thinking (Cognition) and the way that it impacts emotional, physiological, and behavioral responses. Unfortunately, all human lenses are fallible and do not operate from a place of facts. CBT looks to bring awareness to this relationship as well as the narratives that uphold the negative patterns.

How is CBT different from Psychodynamic Therapy?

Traditional psychodynamic therapies tend to focus on the past, with a more open-ended approach than Cognitive Behavior Therapy. In CBT, we believe that the patterns at present definitely have a link to the past, but we don’t want to spend too much time in the past. We will look to see how the past plays a role and how to consider it when utilizing tools moving forward.

CBT & Treatment Overview

Treatment Overview

  • Engage in a structured, goal-oriented resource that helps identify and challenge negative thought patterns and behaviors. With focus on behavioral activation, individuals explore and engage in positive, rewarding activities to counteract the social withdrawal and inactivity often associated with depression. By modifying both thoughts and behaviors, we aim to reduce symptoms and prevent future episodes.

  • Through cognitive restructuring and exposure therapy, CBT helps people face their fears and replace negative thinking with more dialectic and balanced perspectives.

  • Odyssey CBT helps clients manage the physical and emotional challenges of their condition. The personalized approach focuses on identifying how thoughts and behaviors contribute to the pain cycle, teaching skills to change maladaptive responses. The goal is not to eliminate pain, but rather to improve coping, reduce distress, and enhance clients’ quality of life even in the presence of persistent symptoms.

  • When treating OCD, we look to target the cycle of obsessions and compulsions. By utilizing Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), clients are gradually exposed to their feared thoughts/situations to validate the emotional responses while challenging thoughts to calibrate and activate without performing compulsive rituals. As clients learn to sit with the discomfort of their thoughts while recalibrating with coping skills, they can break the compulsive cycle.

  • Odyssey helps clients navigate significant transitions and changes by providing a framework to address the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Clients work to identify and challenge negative thinking patterns that often arise during vulnerable transitions. The goal is to develop effective coping strategies and a more flexible mindset, enabling a smoother adjustment and promoting resilience during times of change.

  • Odyssey CBT utilizes Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) skills to confront situations that trigger client’s negative emotional responses about their appearance. Simultaneously, clients work on building skills to cope with compulsive behaviors such as mirror checking or excessive grooming. Our aim is to help clients challenge distorted thoughts about their body and reduce the compulsive behaviors that maintain the disorder, ultimately improving their quality of life through coping skills and cognitive restructuring.

  • We work to identify and challenge deeply ingrained, maladaptive patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that are having a negative impact on clients’ day-to-day lives. Clients focus on developing new coping skills to manage intense emotions, improve interpersonal relationships, and build a more stable sense of self. By addressing maladaptive patterns, we look to establish more flexible and healthier ways of interacting with the world.

  • Clients focus on addressing the anxiety, depression, and stress that can arise from gender dysphoria, social stigma, or the transition process itself. Through techniques like cognitive restructuring and behavioral skills training, Odyssey CBT helps individuals build resilience, develop coping strategies, and enhance their overall well-being as they align their lives with their authentic gender identity.

Get In Touch

Interested in working together? Have any questions? Feel free to submit an inquiry here, or reach out via email at greg@odysseycbt.com or phone at (646) 530-5209

The Meaning of ‘Odyssey’

Aside from becoming synonymous with an arduous journey, ‘Odyssey’ refers to Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey, which tells the story of Odysseus, King of Ithaca, traveling home from the Trojan War. As Odysseus embarks on his journey through the ancient world, he is continuously motivated to rise through challenges and obstacles, propelled by his deepest desire to return to his wife and son. The poem is the quest for value-based living and Odysseus’ resilience in navigating ten years of physical, emotional, and psychological challenges. Odysseus is often referred to by the epithet, ‘Cunning Odysseus,’ as his resilience was bolstered by his problem-solving ability and hallmarked by the creative ways he engaged with resources. As Odysseus faces challenges, he is quick to evaluate, consider, and take action in ways that will ultimately serve his goals— returning to his family to live his values.

Years after first reading the tale, I have come to see Odysseus as not only the classical embodiment of cunning problem-solving, but as a man trying his best to live his values and employing the theoretical lens of CBT in his problem-solving ability to take action. There are challenges and massive amounts of uncertainty, but at each turn, Odysseus is able to pause and evaluate his situation from a factual lens. In doing so, he is able to tap into resources and take action without ever guaranteeing success. If something doesn’t work out well, he does not hesitate to re-evaluate, re-calibrate, and take another action in advocating for his goals, which ultimately align with him returning home to his wife and son. Like Odysseus, I want you to evaluate what you want in life. I also want you to look around and tap into the resources that might help you grow in that direction.