Jack Szary, LMHC-D

I am a New York licensed mental health counselor working with accomplished adults whose anxiety, chronic stress, and relentless self-criticism have started to outpace what discipline alone can manage.

Most of the people who reach out to me are competent and well-regarded and privately worn down. The work has gotten heavier, the internal standard keeps rising, and rest has stopped restoring anything. From the outside nothing looks wrong. That gap between how things appear and how they feel is usually what brings someone to my inbox.

I am Jack Szary, LMHC-D. I co-own Rhythm Wellness Mental Health Counseling, a telehealth practice serving adults across New York State. My graduate training is from New York University, and I completed formal instruction in dialectical behavior therapy. Earlier in my career I worked in foster care and homeless services, which taught me to prioritize what will help a person by Friday over what sounds good in a treatment plan.

My method blends acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and DBT skills, with occasional grounding in Stoic philosophy for clients who think in systems and want a framework to hold onto. I explain what we are doing and why. Nothing gets run on you without your understanding it.

Sessions are conversational but purposeful. We identify the mechanism keeping a problem in place, whether that is avoidance, overfunctioning, or a critical inner voice you have mistaken for accuracy, and then we work on it deliberately. I ask direct questions. I offer observations you may not want to hear. Most weeks you will leave with something specific to practice.

My focus areas include anxiety, work-related stress and depletion, perfectionism, self-worth, life transitions, and men's mental health.

If you are considering therapy but unsure whether your situation warrants it, that uncertainty is worth a conversation on its own.