Meet Anthony Windram, LMSW: Psychodynamic Therapy for Life’s Turning Points
We are delighted to welcome Anthony Windram, LMSW, to the clinical team at Transcendent Self Therapy. Anthony is now accepting new clients for individual and couples therapy, both in person at our Williamsburg, Brooklyn office and virtually throughout New York.
Anthony works with adults who want more than strategies for managing symptoms. His approach is especially well suited to people who are curious about why certain patterns persist: why the same relationship dynamics keep emerging, why professional success no longer feels satisfying, or why a period of change has raised deeper questions about identity, direction, and meaning.
Drawing from psychodynamic and relational psychotherapy, Anthony helps clients understand how past experiences, early relationships, and long-held ways of seeing themselves continue to influence their lives today. The aim is not to remain focused on the past, but to develop the insight and emotional freedom needed to live differently in the present.
Therapy for Career Change, Burnout, and Professional Identity
Work is rarely just work. It can become closely tied to our identity, self-worth, security, ambition, and sense of belonging. When a career begins to feel unsustainable, or when an achievement that once mattered stops feeling meaningful, the resulting uncertainty can reach far beyond the workplace.
Anthony has a particular interest in helping clients navigate:
Burnout and workplace stress
Career transitions and professional reinvention
Uncertainty about life direction
Perfectionism and achievement pressure
Professional identity and self-worth
Midlife transitions
Questions of meaning and purpose
Before becoming a therapist, Anthony worked in advertising, communications, and brand strategy. His substantial experience in the corporate world gives him firsthand insight into the pressures of demanding workplaces and the complicated emotional realities of leaving an established career, reconsidering one’s ambitions, or beginning again.
He understands that a career transition can contain excitement, grief, fear, and possibility at the same time. Therapy offers a place to consider not only what you should do next, but also who you are becoming.
Understanding Relationship Patterns More Deeply
Anthony also works with people who find themselves repeating painful or confusing patterns in romantic, family, or professional relationships.
Perhaps you consistently prioritize other people’s needs and struggle to identify your own. You may long for closeness but withdraw when intimacy begins to feel vulnerable. Or you may understand a relationship pattern intellectually while still feeling unable to change it.
Psychodynamic therapy makes room for these contradictions. Rather than judging a pattern or treating it as a personal failing, Anthony helps clients become curious about how it developed, what purpose it may once have served, and whether it still reflects the life and relationships they want now.
His interpersonal style creates space for clients to speak openly and examine experiences that may be difficult to articulate elsewhere. Through this process, clients can develop a more compassionate understanding of themselves and greater freedom in how they relate to others.
Therapy for Men and the Experiences They May Struggle to Name
Anthony has a particular interest in working with men around relationships, self-esteem, professional pressure, identity, vulnerability, and emotional connection.
Many men have learned to rely heavily on competence, independence, productivity, or emotional restraint. These qualities may be valuable, but they can also make it difficult to recognize distress, ask for support, or communicate more vulnerable needs.
Therapy does not require abandoning strength or self-reliance. Instead, it can expand a person’s emotional range and create more choices in how they respond to stress, conflict, intimacy, and uncertainty. Anthony offers a thoughtful, nonjudgmental environment in which men can explore experiences that may not have had space elsewhere.
Support for Relocation, Cultural Change, and Reinvention
Originally from England and now based in New York, Anthony brings personal understanding to the experience of international relocation and building a life in a new place.
Moving across countries, or even moving between sharply different communities and social worlds, can disrupt familiar sources of identity and belonging. A transition that appears exciting from the outside may also involve loneliness, cultural disorientation, grief, or the unsettling feeling of no longer knowing where “home” is.
Anthony works with expatriates, immigrants, and others navigating relocation, cultural adjustment, and personal reinvention. Therapy can help clients make sense of what has been left behind while developing a life that feels more grounded and genuinely their own.
A Therapist Interested in the Stories That Shape Us
Anthony studied English literature at the University of Cambridge before earning his Master of Science in Social Work from Columbia University. He has also received training at the William Alanson White Institute Clinic, an institution known for its interpersonal and psychoanalytic tradition.
His background in literature informs his interest in the stories people inherit, construct, and revise throughout their lives. The stories we tell about ourselves can provide coherence and meaning, but they can also become restrictive. We may continue to define ourselves through an old failure, a family role, a career identity, or an idea of who we are supposed to be.
In therapy, those stories can be approached with curiosity rather than criticism. Anthony helps clients consider which parts of their existing narrative remain meaningful, which may no longer fit, and what new possibilities are beginning to emerge.
Is Anthony the Right Therapist for You?
Anthony may be a particularly good fit if you are:
Facing a career transition or questioning your professional direction
Experiencing burnout, anxiety, depression, or low self-esteem
Struggling with recurring relationship patterns
Navigating a midlife transition or period of reinvention
Adjusting to an international move or a new cultural environment
Exploring masculinity, vulnerability, or men’s mental health
Grieving a loss or significant life change
Seeking greater clarity, meaning, or emotional depth
Interested in understanding yourself beyond immediate symptom relief
Anthony provides individual psychodynamic therapy and couples therapy. He is currently accepting new clients for in-person sessions in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as well as teletherapy throughout New York.
To learn more or schedule a complimentary consultation with Anthony, contact Transcendent Self Therapy at (718) 504-8800 or admin@ts-therapy.com.