About Tapestry

Welcome

Tapestry is home to the creative, contemplative, and clinical practices of Kristin Wynn, LCSW, SEP. It is also a network of like-minded mental health and healing arts practitioners.

Here you’ll find services and support for expanding awareness, deepening relationships, and reweaving narratives.

  • Tapestry Psychotherapy LCSW PLLC (est. 2018) started out as a small group practice in New York City. In January 2020, we were a group of four clinicians operating out of two humble offices: one in Union Square and one in Park Slope. A few months later, as the world was changing in the wake of the pandemic, our way of working changed as well. Our therapists shifted to telehealth, offering virtual sessions via Zoom and phone. We closed our Manhattan office, and eventually the Brooklyn office as well. A few of us moved out of state. We are now each operating independently in private practice, but we remain connected, and our network is growing! Learn more about the Tapestry Network.

About Kristin Wynn, LCSW, SEP

With two decades of study and practice in contemplative arts and mental health, Kristin views the psyche through a kaleidoscopic lens, exploring the dynamic interplay of biology, psychology, relationships, environment, sociopolitical context, history, ancestry, and belief systems. She works collaboratively with clients who may find themselves stuck in patterns of disorder, including symptoms of trauma, depression, and anxiety. Kristin invites curiosity about the wisdom expressed in discomfort, embracing errant threads, persistent tangles, and seemingly perilous thresholds of not knowing.

While trained and credentialed as a licensed clinical social worker, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and Somatic Experiencing® practitioner, Kristin acknowledges that the wellness industry operates from within systems of oppression that continue to perpetuate harm. And yet support and healing are needed. Working within this paradox, Kristin endeavors to hold the contradictions, re-wilding traditional concepts of mental health, and facilitating connection with innate capacities for health and growth.

Somatic, meditative practices and encounters with the sacred are central to Kristin’s life and work.

Education & Training

  • New York University, Silver School of Social Work - Master of Social Work (MSW)

  • Somatic Experiencing® International - Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP) Certificate

  • Training Institute for Mental Health - Post-Graduate Certificate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

  • ISHTA Yoga Teacher Training

  • SourcePoint Therapy®

  • New York University, Tisch School of the Arts - Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

Clinical Experience

  • Tapestry Psychotherapy, LCSW PLLC - Executive Founder, Clinical Director

  • New York University Wellness Exchange - Crisis Counseling and Assessment

  • Training Institute for Mental Health - Psychotherapist, Assistant Clinical Director, Director of Mind Body Center

  • New York University Counseling Center - Social Work Intern

  • The Recovery Institute, Outpatient Chemical Dependency Program - Social Work Intern

“So much of human suffering stems from having this self that needs to be psychologically defended at all costs. We’re trapped in a story that sees ourselves as independent, isolated agents acting in the world. You can take any number of more accurate perspectives: that we’re a swarm of genes, vehicles for passing on DNA; that we’re social creatures through and through, unable to survive alone; that we’re organisms in an ecosystem, linked together on this planet floating in the middle of nowhere. Wherever you look, you see that the level of interconnectedness is truly amazing, and yet we insist on thinking of ourselves as individual agents.”

Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind

Core Philosophy

Quietly and consistently, nature reflects the reality of interconnection and the imperative of transformation.

We are not separate.

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let us bring the proverbial couch out
from the isolation of the treatment room
from concrete and canons
from sterility and carceral tranquility
to what remains of uncharted wilds,
silenced her-stories, forgotten forests
before they were burning
the space between thoughts
arising, passing

and when no longer stationed staring
at the white flatness of a ceiling
but animate, encountering
the you and i in
vastness of open skies
dark matter, unknowable
touching feet to earth
dancing, grieving
unabridged
in arms of the elements

what then shall we discover
about who we are—
these intricate body-minds,
the systems we dwell within,
the phenomenon of consciousness,
this tapestry of interrelationship?