I. Practice
You do not need to arrive with a clear explanation for why you are here. Often, the beginning is simply a feeling that something has become difficult to carry alone.
Semble is a psychology practice rooted in the belief that meaningful change happens through connection, with another person and within oneself. Through individual and group psychotherapy, we create space to discover and know ourselves – with curiosity rather than judgment.
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Our approach is rooted in relational and psychodynamic psychotherapy, practices that look beyond immediate symptoms to better understand the deeper patterns shaping a person’s emotional life. Rather than focusing only on solutions, together we untangle what keeps repeating: the relationships you find yourself in, the ways you protect yourself, the feelings that seem difficult to access, the parts of yourself that emerge in different contexts.
This kind of therapy is rarely linear. Understanding tends to unfold gradually through conversation, reflection, and the therapeutic relationship itself, not through quick answers, but through staying with what emerges over time. We believe meaningful change comes not from forcing resolution, but from developing a deeper and more honest understanding of yourself.
While individual therapy can help us understand ourselves, group and couples therapy allow us to experience ourselves in relationship. Instead of patterns being discussed intellectually, they become visible in real time when the work is done with other people in the room.
AREAS OF CARE
The reasons people begin therapy are rarely simple and often difficult to name all at once. While every person’s experience is different, these are some of the places our work commonly begins.
Anxiety
A constant hum that’s hard to settle.
Emerging Adulthood
Becoming, without a fixed sense of ground.
Relationships and Intimacy
Wanting connection while navigating vulnerability, closeness, and fear.
Mind and Body
The body, emotional stress, and how they meet.
Perfectionism
Living under the weight of impossible expectations.
Identity and Self-Worth
Exploring who you are beneath roles, achievements, and expectations.
Life and Professional Transitions
Understanding yourself through periods where something is shifting or ending.
Interpersonal Difficulties
Recognizing patterns that emerge in relationship with others.
Loss and Grief
Making room for absence, change, or what cannot be undone.
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The setting itself becomes part of the process. Different forms of therapy can illuminate different emotional patterns, creating distinct opportunities for awareness and movement.
individual therapy
Sometimes the most important thing is to have a space that is entirely yours.
Individual therapy at Semble offers room to think out loud, return to what feels repetitive or unresolved, and explore experiences that may have been pushed aside or carried alone for a long time. The work is not about presenting the best version of yourself. It is a place for contradiction, uncertainty, and emotional honesty, especially where words may feel incomplete or difficult to find.
Over time, therapy can begin to change the way you experience yourself and your relationships. Certain defenses may soften. Reactions that once felt automatic may become more recognizable and less consuming. Longstanding patterns can become easier to understand. Through that process, new possibilities for choice, connection, and change can emerge.
COUPLES therapy
Intimacy can bring closeness, but also fear, defensiveness, and old ways of protecting ourselves.
Relationships often settle into familiar cycles. The same disagreements return. Misunderstandings accumulate. Distance grows where connection once felt natural. Beneath those moments are often deeper emotional needs, fears, and longings that neither partner fully knows how to express, even to themselves.
Couples therapy at Semble offers an opportunity to slow those cycles down and examine them together. The process is not about proving a point or assigning fault. It is about understanding the patterns shaping the relationship and how person experiences, influences and responds to the other. Understanding those dynamics can create space for new ways of relating.
GROUP therapy
There is something that becomes possible in the presence of others: a kind of understanding that cannot always be reached alone.
Semble’s group therapy sessions offer a unique opportunity to experience yourself in relationship. Within a carefully held environment, participants witness themselves more clearly through interaction with others. Grounded in a relational approach to psychotherapy, the group attends closely to the emotional exchanges unfolding in real time, often illuminating familiar ways of navigating closeness, conflict, visibility, belonging, and difference.
As trust develops, the group becomes more than a setting for conversation. It becomes a living interpersonal experience that can challenge isolation, deepen self-awareness, and create space for more honest, authentic ways of relating.
PEOPLE
Led by Jayne Miller, Psy.D., Semble brings together therapists who share a common belief: we come to understand ourselves in relationship, and meaningful change happens when those relationships can be examined with honesty, curiosity, and care.
This ethos extends throughout the practice, especially within group work, where familiar dynamics and personalities often begin to emerge naturally. Within these exchanges, people may start to recognize echoes of a parent, sibling, partner, friend, or even parts of themselves, offering new perspective into their own emotional world and patterns of relating.
Named as a quiet nod to coming together, Semble reflects the belief that insight is rarely formed in isolation, but assembled through connection, recognition, and shared experience.
Inner work, together.
FOUNDER
Jayne Miller, Psy.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist and founder of Semble Psychology. She works with adolescents and adults seeking a deeper understanding of themselves and the patterns that shape their lives.. Her approach is grounded in psychodynamic and relational psychotherapy, with particular attention to attachment, identity, self-esteem, and the complexities of intimacy and connection.
Jayne works across individual, couples, family, and group therapy, with a particular interest in expanding familiarity with group psychotherapy and the ways shared therapeutic settings can deepen self-awareness and interpersonal understanding.
When among others, what once felt deeply personal can begin to feel more human and less isolating.
In addition to her clinical work, Jayne offers consultations, workshops, and presentations exploring the relationship between emotional and physical wellbeing, with attention to how stress, relationships, and lived experience shape both mind and body over time.
rachel hajjar, l.c.s.w.
Rachel Hajjar, L.C.S.W., is a licensed clinical social worker. Her clinical background includes extensive work with children, adolescents, and families navigating the impact of trauma, loss, and significant events. Her approach is grounded in a psychodynamic and strengths-based approach, helping patients better understand how past experiences, relationships, and ways of coping shape their lives.
Rachel creates a space where together, you can explore difficult emotions, longstanding patterns, and the challenges that may feel difficult to navigate alone. Her goal is not only to help alleviate symptoms, but to support a deeper understanding of yourself and the changes you hope to make. Telehealth and in-person availability; sliding scale availability; dually licensed in NY and NJ
Jonathan Neuhaus, L.C.S.W.
Jonathan Neuhaus works with adolescents and adults navigating anxiety, identity, relationships, life transitions, career changes, and the stresses that can arise throughout different stages of life. Drawing on years of experience with children, adolescents, adults, and families, Jonathan brings a grounded, relational approach to therapy.
His work draws from Internal Family Systems (IFS), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and mindfulness-based practices, including Mindful Self-Compassion.
Rather than relying on a single way of working, Jonathan tailors therapy to the needs of each patient, creating space to explore difficult emotions, better understand patterns, and develop new ways of relating to yourself and others.
At the center of his approach is the belief that each person holds an inherent capacity for growth and self-understanding. Jonathan sees therapy as a process of helping patients access and build upon those existing strengths, with greater clarity and compassion.
REACH OUT
You do not need to arrive with the right language, only a sense that something deserves more attention.