We are a boutique, trauma-informed therapy practice in Woodbury, NY offering deeply integrative, whole-person healing for individuals, couples, families, and young adults. Whether you're navigating anxiety, trauma, relationship struggles, parenting issues or the quiet weight of patterns you're ready to change, this is a space where real transformation is possible.
meet your team
Founder & Lead Therapist
Christine Mammes
Welcome to You Matter NY
I'm Christine Mammes, a licensed mental health counselor and trauma specialist based in Woodbury, NY. For over a decade, I've helped adults, couples, and families heal from the effects of trauma, eating disorders, anxiety, depression, and major life transitions. My work goes beyond traditional talk therapy — I look at how your past experiences live in your body, your nervous system, and your relationships.
Breathwork Facilitator & Healer
Rachel Ackley
Rachel is a gifted teacher that works with the body and breath to facilitate deep inner healing, unlock resistance, and free stagnant energy. In addition to yoga, breathwork is one of the most powerful tools that Rachel uses for healing. It is a self-healing tool that heals wounds at a cellular level and connects you to yourself on a deeper level and it strengthens the connection to your intuition and spirit. It has the power to change ways of being, anxiety, trauma and depression, while enhancing feelings of love and joy,
meet in person
At You Matter NY, we offer a small, intentionally designed boutique office in Woodbury, NY — and we mean boutique in the truest sense. This is not a waiting room with fluorescent lights and a clipboard. It is a calm, sensory environment built with your nervous system in mind. The textures, the light, the sound, the pace — everything has been considered to help your body feel safe enough to do what it came here to do. -Whether you chose our in person or tele-health services, you'll find presence with a regulated, attuned therapist. Our office serves therapy to New York City, of New York State, Vermont and Connecticut via tele-health.
our focus is to provide you therapy that is....
HOLISTIC
Whether you're here as an individual, a couple, or a family, our work begins in the same place: with you as a whole person — mind, body, and spirit
ECLECTIC
We may incorporate a range of techniques and approaches in our clinical work to supplement traditional talk therapy-including movement, relaxation mindfulness, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, EMDR and even getting out in nature.
INSIGHTFUL
The better you know yourself the better you will function. Better functioning includes; symptom alleviation, improved performance in your personal, professional or academic life. It gives you greater self awareness which in turn gives you the power to make better choices, break old habits and chose behaviors that serve your best self.