I’m Carly Stanton, a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Board-Certified Music Therapist (MT-BC) offering virtual therapy for Jewish adults in Florida and Pennsylvania who are tired of having to explain themselves — to their non-Jewish friends, to their more or less observant family, and sometimes to themselves.

Jewish identity is rarely simple. It’s religion and culture and history and trauma and food and family and argument and belonging and not belonging, sometimes all at once. And right now, in this particular moment in the world, it can also feel scary, exhausting, and isolating in ways that are hard to put into words — especially when the people around you don’t quite get it, or worse, want to debate it.

I’m Jewish — raised Conservative, and I now identify as “just Jewish.” I understand the specific texture of Jewish family dynamics, communal pressure, and the weight of collective history. You won’t have to explain the basics. You won’t have to justify your grief or your fear or your complicated feelings about any of it.

I work with Jewish adults who are navigating a lot at once — antisemitism and identity stress, yes, but also the overfunctioning that runs deep in so many Jewish families, the sensitivity that never had a name, the ADHD that got missed because you were “so smart,” the caregiver role or the black sheep role or somehow both at the same time. Many of my clients are highly sensitive, high-responsibility adults who are exhausted from carrying too much and are ready to put some of it down.

You don’t have to have it all figured out to start. You just need to be ready to work on it — with someone who already speaks the language.