Alyssa is an LCSW, LCADC, EMDRIA certified in EMDR, certified in Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) and a registered yoga teacher (E-RYT 500). Alyssa has experience working with adolescents, adults, couples, and families. In a safe place, using a blend of mind, body, and CBT, Alyssa supports her clients and explores their issues. She helps them find solutions, understand where their stress is coming from, and teaches her clients how to cope more effectively.

Alyssa earned a B.S. from The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. She graduated with honors from Fordham University with a Master's Degree in Social Work and received training in trauma-focused CBT. Before becoming a therapist, she became a Certified Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor and worked at the Beth Israel Stuyvesant Square Rehabilitation Center in New York City. Alyssa serves on the Advisory Board of The Wilderman Fund for Maternal Mental Health and also on the Advisory Board at The Graf Center for Integrative Medicine at Englewood Hospital.

Specializations and Therapeutic Approach

Alyssa’s goal is to help children, adolescents, adults, and their families get back on track after anxiety and suffering have interfered with their lives. She specializes in evidence-based treatments for anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Substance Use Disorder (SUD), and related conditions. She is primarily a cognitive behavioral therapist (CBT) but has training in other modalities. Alyssa blends elements of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT; mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal skills) into her clinical work.

Guiding Principles

Alyssa works with a variety of emotional and behavioral issues and guides clients to manage life stressors and live a healthy life. She believes getting comfortable with being uncomfortable is the beginning of the journey to doing deep inner work. By learning to sit with and honor painful and traumatic feelings, we learn to free ourselves of them. Often, we think we are triggered by events in the present, but we are actually reacting to the traumatic wounds of the past. Alyssa will guide you on the journey of walking through the discomfort and into the rest of your life.