Meet Lydia
Lydia is a trauma-focused and relational therapist and coach who works with individuals, families, and couples. She believes that the client is the expert in their experience and she engages with a curious, collaborative, strengths-based approach. Lydia draws from the Ackerman Relational Approach, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Trauma-Focused CBT, Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). She is a trained meditation teacher and integrates mindfulness and body awareness into her sessions.
Lydia received her Master of Social Work degree from Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College in 2014, and is currently training at the Ackerman Institute for the Family. She completed her meditation teacher at the Nalanda Institute in 2019.
Lydia has experience working with clients struggling with anxiety, depression, loss of connection, difficulty communicating or difficulty trusting people, shame, self-harm, thoughts of suicide, and other post-traumatic symptoms. She has worked with survivors of domestic violence and emotional abuse, survivors of childhood abuse and/or neglect, recent immigrants to the US, members of the LGBTQA+ community, war veterans, and families with foster children. She speaks English, Spanish and French.
In her free time, Lydia loves to dance, make art, and smother her French Bulldog, Charles.
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