Therapy & Coaching for You,
Your Relationships,
& Your Faith
BREAKING FREE IS JUST THE BEGINNING.
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Understand yourself, strengthen your relationships, and find a healthier way forward with your family, your beliefs, and your life.
At Cyuah, Chananya Abraham helps individuals, young adults, and parents navigate relationship challenges, life transitions, and their relationship with religion.
Therapy is available in person in Connecticut and online in Connecticut and Florida. Coaching is available in person in Connecticut and online beyond Connecticut.
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Helping · You · Together
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WHAT BRINGS YOU HERE?
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You Don’t Have to Figure Everything Out Alone.
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Are you struggling to communicate with your child?
Feeling disconnected from religion but wanting to reconnect?
Or trying to better understand yourself and your relationships?
Let’s start by understanding what you need.
What best describes you?
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I’m a parent looking to strengthen my relationship with my child.
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I’m a young adult navigating relationships, identity, or faith.
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I want to reconnect with religion and learn to Practice Your Way.
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I’m looking for support with emotional or relationship challenges.
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TWO WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER
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Therapy
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Professional support for emotional challenges, relationships, family dynamics, life transitions, and religious trauma.
Available in person in Connecticut and online in Connecticut and Florida.
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Therapy That Starts With You
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Your experiences, relationships, and challenges are unique. Therapy offers a space to understand what’s happening in your life, work through what feels difficult, and identify practical ways forward.
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Therapy May Help With:
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Emotional challenges, anxiety, and self-esteem
Family relationships and communication
Life transitions and personal growth
Religious trauma and difficult experiences with faith
Identity, belonging, and questions about your beliefs
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A PERSONALIZED APPROACH
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There is no single approach that works for everyone. Depending on your needs and goals, our work may draw from Internal Family Systems (IFS), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), motivational interviewing, mindfulness, and meditation.
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The aim is to find an approach that fits your circumstances and supports your progress.
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FINDING THE RIGHT FIT
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Finding a therapist who works for you is a little like finding a house, a spouse, or a pair of shoes. Sometimes it takes exploring a few options before you find the right fit, and that’s okay.
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If we discover that we’re not the right fit, we’ll reassess your needs and, where appropriate, discuss a referral. Your needs come first.
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WHERE THERAPY IS AVAILABLE
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Therapy is available in person in Connecticut and online in Connecticut and Florida.
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Coaching: Practice Your Way
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A coaching approach to help you explore your relationship with religion, build confidence in your beliefs, and discover how to practice faith in a way that feels authentic to you.
Available in person in Connecticut and online beyond Connecticut.​
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Your Faith. Your Questions. Your Journey.
You can want a connection with religion while still having complicated feelings about your past.
Practice Your Way helps you explore your experiences and discover what a meaningful relationship with religion could look like for you today.
You don’t have to ignore what hurt or have every answer before you begin.
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You may want religion to be part of your life, but past experiences, guilt, expectations, or uncertainty have made that difficult.
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You might miss the connection you once had, want to explore what you believe today, or wonder whether you can practice differently from how you were taught.
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Practice Your Way is Chananya’s coaching approach to helping you explore these questions, build confidence in your beliefs, and discover how you want religion to fit into your life.
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DOES THIS SOUND LIKE YOU?
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“I want to reconnect with religion, but I don’t know where to begin.”
“How can I practice without feeling controlled by guilt or expectations?”
“Can I question what I was taught and still have faith?”
“How do I build a relationship with religion that feels like mine?”
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This isn’t about giving you someone else’s answers or telling you what to believe. It’s about exploring your experiences, understanding what matters to you, and finding a way forward that feels authentic.
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THE PILLARS OF CYUAH THERAPY
COMMUNICATION
Positive, well intended, constructive, and building up, beneficial, true, caring and with wisdom.
FAMILY
The bedrock of our future, family first. Stays solid through support of the friends and community. Gives us a sense of happiness and joy.
INTEGRITY
Moralistic, adherence to moral at the call and therapeutic traits with consistency!
AUTHENTIC
Being fully trustworthy and genuine. True self, not hiding behind any masks.
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CONSISTENCY
"The soil of which creativity grows" rather small and consistent than big and a fleeting
COMMITMENT
Forgoing emotional choices when needed. Falling in love with something and then building a structure of behavior around it, even when it's difficult.
About Chananya
Chananya Abraham works with people who look fine, and aren’t. For 18 years, he’s helped them stop performing “okay” and start actually being okay.
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He is a licensed psychotherapist (LPC, Connecticut; telehealth in Florida) and the founder of Cyuah Therapy in Waterbury, CT, where he works with teens, young adults, and families: high-functioning adults carrying old wounds, young adults stuck at a crossroads of identity, and parents trying to pass on what matters without passing on what hurt them.
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His clinical work draws on DBT, Internal Family Systems (IFS), CBT, and body-based trauma therapy. It was shaped by direct consultation with Bessel van der Kolk, Janina Fisher, Frank Anderson, and Charles Swenson. From them he carries a conviction that runs through every session: trauma lives in the body as much as in the story, healing begins when you feel safe enough to get curious about the parts of yourself you’d rather hide, and lasting change takes both acceptance and skill.
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His thinking is just as indebted to Viktor Frankl, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, and Rabbi Dr. Abraham Twerski. Meaning matters. Responsibility is a form of dignity. Your worth was never something you had to earn. As an observant Jew, he understands faith, family, and tradition from the inside, so clients of any background rarely have to explain where they’re coming from.
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That understanding led him to create Practice Your Way, a coaching program, separate from therapy, for people who feel disconnected from the tradition they were raised in but aren’t ready to walk away from it. The work is about rebuilding that relationship honestly, so you can live it as your own and hand it to the next generation in a form that’s true. As he puts it: you don’t have to pass on what broke you.
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Through all of it, one line keeps showing up, in sessions and in life: “And…that’s OK!” It’s his reminder that growth usually comes out of the messy moments, not in spite of them, and that a sense of humor helps more than people expect.
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