Success Stories
Real Stories, Real Strength: Discover how hope and healing transformed lives after divorce trauma. Let these heartfelt journeys inspire your own path to recovery.
Malisa R
I met Alina when I was feeling hopeless. I had called several places but when I spoke to Alina, she was the only person who made me feel truly comfortable. She was not only kind and understanding, but she listened to me. I had just gotten out of an abusive relationship, and I was so traumatized. My ex was also fighting me in court for custody of our baby just so he could exert more power and dominance over me. I was terrified to leave my home and the anxiety was overwhelming. I wanted to take back my power and confidence, but I didn’t know how. Alina began EMDR therapy with me to help me process the trauma of the abuse, and during our first session I thought it was silly but by the end of the session, I was shocked that it actually works. EMDR therapy also helped me to quickly get rid of the anxiety. I could finally leave the house again and I was able to rebuild my confidence. Alina also helped me to manage the highly emotional terrain of the child custody battle as well. The court system, judges, and attorneys are all draining especially when you’re fighting for your child and you have no control over that process. It’s so important to find a therapist that understands and can help you navigate through all these vulnerable moments. I can’t thank Alina enough for how much she has improved my life. I highly recommend her.
Steeven C
Dr. Yurkovsky has gone above and beyond in the last year of helping me with my case regarding separation from my daughter. She has helped me communicate with my lawyer, has helped me research what I needed and has greatly helped me deal with the emotional pain of my situation. Sometimes she just made me laugh when I was feeling down. She has taught me a lot about DBT skills that I use in life and with dealing with my custodial situation. She has integrity and will come through for you with what you need, not just what she feels like offering you.
Lara M
For the past year, I’ve had the privilege of working with Dr. Alina, my therapist. She’s helped me overcome my fear of my emotions, thoughts, and feelings. I no longer fear responding with love and compassion to those who have hurt me. I approach life with a touch of humanity, inspired by Dr. Alina’s unwavering love and appreciation for me.
I can’t express enough gratitude for the confidence, resilience, and happiness she’s brought into my life. She’s an angel, and I owe so much to her for guiding me through this horrific experience of dealing with my ex-husband and legal issues involved with that. I believe we all can relate to her in some way. She’s truly an angel.
Alexander K
I thank Dr. Yurkovsky for helping me deal with the anxiety I endured after a 10-year battle with my ex for custody of my daughter. In the end, I won, but it cost me so many years of my life, so much aggravation and all of my money. I had a thriving business that was destroyed by this divorce. I had so much rage and anxiety in the aftermath and Dr. Yurkovsky really helped me accept that I could not change the past and to learn how to reduce the anxiety and move on to rebuild a much better future for myself. My daughter is now graduating from high school, and I am so glad that I was able salvage my emotions to enjoy these last years of her living with me.
Scott D
Dr. Yurkovsky has been a great help to me, my daughter and my ex-wife in helping us navigate the right communication skills and develop the most understanding of each other’s needs, for the best interests of our entire family. She is smart, caring, relatable and thinks out of the box in problem solving complicated family dynamics. I highly recommend her!
Janna B
When I realized that my ex-husband had kidnapped our children to his home country, (when he didn’t return them after a routine visit), I immediately called Dr. Yurkovsky. She had helped me with hypnosis in the past. Throughout my ordeal, she used her powerful techniques with me to help me calm down and be able to think through things more rationally instead of with panic and fear. After a year of trauma, I did get my children back, and I continue to book sessions with her as life hands me it’s inevitable challenges. Dr. Yurkovsky is truly the voice you want to have in your head as you figure out the best steps forward in your life!
Wendy S
I started working with Alina at the beginning of a compete mental and financial breakdown when feelings of suicide seemed to be the only way out. I was trying to take care of my family, maintain a career, support my teenage daughter with her own mental illness and just try and keep it together as a single mom. When my mental strength significantly declined and everything around me seemed to be falling apart, finding Alina at this pivotal time was literally lifesaving. She helped me understand and articulate the origins of my negative self-defeating patterns of thinking through hypnosis techniques and psychotherapy that enabled me to develop strategies for dealing with painful emotions, difficult people in my life, and ultimately re-wire my patterns of thinking. She was compassionate but also constructively challenged negative perceptions of myself that ultimately gave me the tools to navigate challenging situations, especially around my children and ex-husband, but most importantly with myself!
I had never tried hypnosis before and didn’t know much about it, but with Alina’s combination of therapy and guided meditations she allowed me to get to the root of past experiences and empowered me to find strength and let go of old pain. It has undoubtedly changed my life and would highly recommend to anyone who wants to be a better person to themselves and feel like life is worth living again.
Barbara S
I met Dr. Yurkovsky while I was still going through multiple hearings and legal procedures to finalize custody of my children with my ex-husband. At this point, I was still experiencing PTSD symptoms from the physical and emotional abuse I lived with for 17 years. At the same time, I had to keep showing up for court to hear the lies that my ex and his lawyer told about me to the judge. Dr. Yurkovsky really helped me calm my nervous system and become less reactive to thoughts of the past and I felt much calmer going through the rest of the legal process. I can say that EMDR and hypnosis with Dr. Yurkovsky and her no nonsense guidance to focusing on the facts of the situation, instead of dwelling in anxiety, really helped me get through all of this. I am almost on the other side now and I am so grateful!
Dan W
As a man, it can be hard to ask for help, but when I was going through my divorce, I knew that I had to get help because I was emotionally overwhelmed, trying to work and keep it together for my kids. I thought I needed a male therapist but when I met Dr. Yurkovsky, she really spoke my language. She understands and supports the hardships that men go through in the family court system, and she sort of speaks the language that men understand, or at least that I understand. She is action oriented and has helped me to communicate more effectively so that I have a better co-parenting relationship with my ex-wife and that has helped my nervous system and helped me focus back on running my company in the best way possible.
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