Meet The Team

Deborah is a Clinical Mental Health Counselor, with a Bachelor’s in Psychology and a Master's in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. She enjoys helping others manage, process, and deal with their difficulties and hardships in life and finding ways to overcome and heal from these experiences. Deborah has worked with children, teenagers, adults, and couples struggling with trauma, suicidal ideation, depression, anxiety, grief, loss, and relationship difficulties.

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Deborah’s goal is to help her clients, help themselves, with a very empathetic, loving, compassionate, and non-judgmental approach. Deborah believes that each client deserves a tailor-fit approach that is designed to help their personal journey. She uses an integrative approach to counseling and practices Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, and Mindfulness, in her sessions with her clients. Deborah utilizes a variety of techniques to help her clients overcome their struggles, including identifying the thought patterns and cognitive distortions that are contributing to their depression, anxiety, and stress. She fosters effective communication skills to help her clients express themselves more effectively and comfortably,  and provides coping skills and self-care strategies to help her clients through their difficulties. Deborah helps her patients work through any traumatic or past experiences that are impacting the patient’s current daily life and functioning. Deborah also specializes in couples counseling and parenting.

Deborah provides active listening and observing, empathic support, and validation to her clients. Deborah values helping her clients increase their self-love, respect, value, and confidence. Deborah’s goal is to help her clients work on their challenges and hardships and therefore work on improving their happiness and quality of life.

Florence is a New York State licensed social worker. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Health Science from Boston University Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and a Master's Degree in Clinical Social Work from Fordham University Graduate School of Social Services. 

Florence’s clinical experience and training include providing a broad range of mental health services at Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, CancerCare, and SUNY Downstate Hospital in Brooklyn. She is also a recipient of the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Palliative Care Fellowship. Florence strives to meet clients where they are and does not believe there is a one-size fit approach. She draws from strengths-based approaches, narrative therapy, mindfulness, and cognitive-based therapy, and is committed to creating a safe, supportive and collaborative environment. 

Sara is our coordinator in charge of verifying insurance coverages, and handling claims and billing items.  She is also responsible for managing our website and social media aspects, as well as the paperwork for our practice. 

My passion for serving my community has led me to work with a diverse array of young adults and teens in an individual psychotherapeutic setting. I approach clients with empathy to help develop their self-confidence and community connection to facilitate change on the basis of human connection.

I use a humanistic person-centered approach to allow clients to learn how to express themselves in a nonjudgmental and empathetic space. Self expression and emotional expression gives clients space to gain insight on how to actualize their intrinsic will to change or release what may no longer serve them. Self-awareness in a client can develop in a non-judgemental and empathetic space which I strive to provide during sessions. Learning how to express and feel emotions can be uncomfortable or unusual at first, and with practice in a safe space, we can start to change.