Find a Therapist in South Kearny, NJ

If you’re here, you might be feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure of your next step. I want you to know you’re not alone. Life can be demanding, and sometimes our thoughts and emotions start to feel like they’re running the show. That’s where I come in. I help people just like you slow things down, gain clarity, and take back control. My approach is warm, practical, and collaborative. I use evidence-based methods like cognitive and behavioral therapies to help you understand what’s going on beneath the surface, and more importantly, what you can do about it. Together, we’ll identify the patterns that are keeping you stuck and build strategies that actually work in your everyday life. Whether you're navigating anxiety, burnout, relationship stress, or just want to feel more grounded, I offer a safe space to explore, reflect, and grow. You don’t have to have it all figured out. You just have to be ready to start. And I’ll be right there with you.

I utilize patient-centered care, a compassion-focused approach to individualize your treatment with the ultimate goal and outcome of reducing your symptoms and managing them to ensure that you regain your functionality. Individualize each and every client's treatment plan to achieve the goals.

I collaborate with arts and helping professionals on a variety of issues, including: finding your voice in negotiation and relationships, getting creative projects and careers off the ground, identifying what's working in your life--and what's not--and how to change things for the better. I also work with issues around bereavement and loss. My training and approach combines psychodynamic, mindbody and mindfulness aspects. I have expertise in stress management (how to handle the present), trauma recovery (how to integrate the past) and creative breakthroughs and empowerment (how to build a future). When appropriate, I use EMDR, a proven method of symptom relief from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); meditation and breathing exercises and other techniques. Equally if not more important is how we fit together as a working team. I invite you to consult with me for one or two sessions and see if you'd like to work with me.

You may be at a threshold, where the old ways of coping—over-functioning, perfectionism, people-pleasing—no longer feel sustainable. You’re longing for more authenticity, more ease, more connection to yourself and your truth. I work with those who feel called to go deeper—who sense their symptoms are not just problems to solve, but invitations into a more authentic, meaningful way of being.

I specialize in working with young adults struggling with anxiety, relationship issues, life transitions and substance use. When we are anxious and overwhelmed, it can cause us to feel disconnected from others. Feeling stuck and stressed can trigger self-doubt and poor decision-making, and this chips away at our self-esteem. Personal challenges have taught me that tough times can be an opportunity to gain wisdom and resiliency. I can help you identify the core issues that are negatively impacting your life and deterring you from enjoying your life and achieving your goals. I am an ‘active’ therapist, who makes suggestions and offers guidance, as opposed to just asking “how does that make you feel”? I forge close relationships with clients, who appreciate my warmth, openness and good energy. I provide clients a safe, judgement-free space, where they feel heard, supported and respected. Using holistic and science-based methods, I teach clients solution-focused strategies that they implement in their daily life and for future bumps in the road. With my help, clients learn to step into their personal power. This increases their self-confidence, optimism, and self-awareness. If you are ready to step into your power, I can help you get there.

As a board-certified, NYU-educated psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP-BC), Drew brings over 10 years of experience providing inclusive, compassionate, and evidence-based care. Her approach centers on creating a safe, affirming space for clients to explore challenges, gain insight, and achieve meaningful, lasting change. Drew’s clinical focus includes anxiety and mood conditions, attention-deficit hyperactivity (ADHD), eating issues, substance use conditions, early adulthood transitions, and LGBTQ+-affirming care in adults 18 and older. She is specially trained in the medication management of psychiatric and substance use conditions, and offers comprehensive treatment via telehealth, personalized to each client’s unique needs. Using a holistic, collaborative, and evidence-based approach, Drew provides psychiatric evaluations, medication management with brief psychotherapy, and practical coping strategies. Together, you’ll take the time to understand what you’re experiencing, address root causes, and create a treatment plan that supports your goals and well-being. Drew founded Anchor Wellness Psychiatry to expand access to inclusive, high-quality psychiatric care across New York. Before launching her practice, she co-founded a group practice and served in nursing leadership roles, as well as an adjunct faculty member at NYU, mentoring future clinicians. For those seeking an empowering and transformative experience, Drew is a dedicated partner and advocate—committed to helping you navigate life’s challenges, heal, and move toward the life you envision.

I enjoy working with children and adolescents to establish a warm therapeutic relationship. My goal is for my clients to not just improve but to thrive so that they can grow and mature to be successful and productive members of society. I enjoy working with parents and teachers to help them better understand their children and students and to foster a more peaceful and productive home and classroom. In my spare time, I enjoy spending time with my husband (also a psychologist!) and two young children. I also enjoy reading, exercise, and participating in community events.

Through various experiences working with teens, adults, and seniors I was able to utilize integrative practice methods, including spirituality, CBT, and life experience to best help another individual redevelop hisher idea of life's journey.

My approach to working with people is based on listening carefully. Together we will create a space where we can explore past and present relationships and come to understand the many levels of your experience. The goal is to feel more in control and generally to feel more whole and enlivened. Over my 30 year career I have worked with all kinds of individuals and couples covering a broad range of emotional issues and life circumstances. I look forward to meeting you in a consultation to see if we are a good match to work together.

Do you want to feel greater overall satisfaction in your relationships with both yourself and others? Imagine starting and ending your day feeling confident, content, and focused. My main treatment goal is to help you acquire positive coping skills that you can take with you so that you do not need to remain in therapy forever. I am a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with eight years of experience providing individual, family, couple, and group therapy to children, adolescents, and adults. I specialize in eating disorders, depression, anxiety, self-harm, and family conflict. I have worked for a leading eating disorder treatment center in the residential, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient levels of care. I utilize a combination of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). I pride myself on creating a warm, supportive, safe environment where clients feel comfortable and work towards increased insight, growth, and positive change. I believe that you are the expert on your life and will work with you to set and achieve your goals. I look forward to working with you towards improving your life. Call or e-mail me today!

My approach focuses on helping individuals have hope and belief in the knowledge that they can live a life of fulfillment and contentment. Often people feel broken, overwhelmed and hopeless when faced with life challenges, whatever they may be. It feels like no one understands and nothing can be done, but with help and we all need help from time to time; life can feel worth living. A number of theories are used according to the unique needs you may have. I became a therapist because I love to connect with others on a deeper level. Every since I was about 5 years old, I knew I wanted to be a Social Worker. When we would play house, I would be the social worker. My passion has remained, I enjoy what I do and see it as my part in helping to make this world a better place. My motto is "Bring Quality Back to Care". To treat people as people and not a number. No waiting hours, no feel of being in an institution, no disrespectful staff; just me brimming with a smile filled with enthusiasm and eager to help you reach your goal.

I have been a psychotherapist for over 20 years, working with individuals couples and families. I work with individuals and families dealing with a wide range of issues, and with both traditional and non traditional families. Who ever I am working with, I pay attention to the context of people's lives and the importance of the significant relationships in our lives. As a family and couple therapist I work with the ways our interaction patterns serve to promote healing, and the ways that those patterns help to maintain problems. In difficult times both individuals and families can become focused on their problems, and the more positive parts of our lives can become diminished. I think that one of the important tasks of therapy is to help people to focus on and utilize their strengths and resources