Andreau Charles, LCSW: Depth Psychotherapist

I came to depth psychology the way most people who belong in it do: not as an intellectual interest, but as a necessity. The questions that drive this work are not abstract to me: What is the self beneath the self we perform? What does the unconscious psyche want? What does it mean to become who you actually are?

I founded Areale Counseling & Wellness in Midtown Manhattan to create a practice where those questions could be taken seriously — clinically, intellectually, and personally.

My patients are professionals who have built the life they were supposed to build and arrived at a strange emptiness. They are artists navigating the psychological cost of creative life. They are people who have done years of work and still feel that something essential has not been touched.

My doctoral training at Pacifica Graduate Institute is in the tradition of James Hillman’s archetypal psychology and Fanny Brewster’s Africanist depth psychology, a lineage that also carries Clarissa Pinkola Estés’s work on myth, story, and the instinctual psyche, and that Pacifica has brought into contemporary clinical practice.

That formation is present in every clinical encounter, not as a methodology applied from outside, but as a way of seeing that is now inseparable from how I think.

My clinical focus is the unconscious narcissistic wound, the early injury to the self that drives achievement, perfectionism, and the persistent sense that no external success is quite enough. I work with the False Self that was built to compensate for it, and toward the more real self that has been waiting beneath.

I offer in-person sessions in Midtown Manhattan and secure telehealth sessions across New York State.