HEATHER deCASTRO, LCSW

Board-Certified Psychotherapist

My expertise lies in counseling my patients to master their anxieties, depression, relationships, and vocational struggles. In addition to being a licensed psychotherapist, assistant director of training and faculty member at my post-graduate institute for psychoanalytic psychotherapy, I have extensive experience in both the business and fashion worlds and can readily appreciate the difficulties engendered by high-pressure careers. Having worked in these highly competitive environments, I am exquisitely attuned to the many self-esteem vulnerabilities that can inhibit people from achieving their goals.

With a warm, advocacy, individualizing and collaborative approach, I am professionally gratified to work through roadblocks and encourage unique strengths and talents. Further clinical interests include: emerging adulthood, career transitions, technology and relationships, eating disorders, focusing problems, obsessive compulsive personalities, parenting issues, and navigating social media.

I am a member of the National Association for Social Workers, The American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work, The American Psychoanalytic Association, The New York State Society for Clinical Social Work, American Psychological Association (Division 39), and my Institutes Psychoanalytic Society. Additionally, I provide clinical supervision to students in master degree programs, students obtaining their clinical license, and practitioners in private practice.

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