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About My Clients
A cancer diagnosis is life-changing. It disrupts so many things about our everyday lives. And the stress can be overwhelming for even the most resilient among us. People coping with cancer often experience heightened levels of fear, worry, pain and uncertainty. As the founder of River Birch Therapy, I am passionate about helping people traverse the cancer continuum and navigate their unique journeys of moving forward.
My Background and Approach
Professionally, I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in New York & Registered, Board-Certified Art Therapist (ATR-BC). After years of training and experience in psychology, medical art therapy, and social work, I now focus on adjusting to cancer experiences, coping with grief and loss, trauma, complex relational issues and end of life conversations. During sessions at River Birch, I work from a whole-person, strengths-based, relational and embodied approach to health. I introduce mindfulness-based stress reduction and meaning-centered and trauma-informed frameworks to encourage the integration of the mind-body experiences affected by cancer.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
For over 20 years, I've worked as a therapist in a wide variety of hospitals and outpatient clinics across the United States. Caring for people of all ages and different backgrounds has taught me many things, but one element has forged who I am as a clinician: hope lies at the core of healing. And that's why I started River Birch Therapy -- to help people find hope when it can be elusive, or seemingly nonexistent.