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About Me

Hi, I’m Madeline (she/her) and I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in New York State. I strive to create a safe, supportive, and affirming environment. I love what I do, and I feel honored to do this work. When I’m not working, I enjoy dancing, nature walks, playing with my two cats, Laszlo and Loaf, writing, singing, yoga, and reading.

My work supports people in finding connection. Connection to themself, to their body, and to their community, working in harmony while awakening the inner wisdom that supports healing and growth. I draw from my background in dance, performance, yoga, and somatic practices, attuning to the relationship between the body’s sensations, emotions, and the narratives that shape experience.

In working with preteens, adolescents, and adults in schools, hospitals, and community mental health clinics, I’ve learned that the struggles people face rarely happen in isolation. They are often shaped by systemic inequalities and the environments they have had to move through. I am committed to paying close attention to the broader contexts of a person’s life, including the cultural, familial, political, and structural forces that influence how we learn to survive, cope, and make meaning. I consider how our respective backgrounds and positionalities shape the therapeutic space, and I strive to cultivate a collaborative environment where your insight can fully emerge. This awareness deepens our work, offering a compassionate understanding of challenges, strengths, and possibilities for healing.

My Approach

My approach aims to support growth and understanding that honors individual healing as well as the nuanced ways our human experiences are connected to the broader community.

In therapy, we explore thoughts, sensations, images, emotions, movements, breath, and energy, paying close attention to what arises. Drawing from a relational, attachment-focused, and trauma-informed lens, I guide the process to support reconnection with your body and your authentic self. I use an integrative approach grounded in psychodynamic practice, Internal Family Systems (parts work), mindfulness techniques, and somatic-based tools to help you notice, feel, and respond to your emotions with compassion. I have a specialized focus working with LGBTQIA+ individuals, emerging adults, creatives, and artists.

I work from a place of attunement and curiosity, creating space for you to settle into your body and meet whatever arises with gentleness. I honor and deeply respect your lived experience, trusting that within you lies an innate understanding of what truly serves you.

My role is to support the gentle uncovering of that inner wisdom, often layered beneath old patterns, wounds, or limiting beliefs. By bringing awareness to physical sensations and emotional responses, we explore your experiences in a way that cultivates clarity and meaningful growth.

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About Me

Hi, I’m Madeline (she/her) and I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in New York State. I strive to create a safe, supportive, and affirming environment. I love what I do, and I feel honored to do this work. When I’m not working, I enjoy dancing, nature walks, playing with my two cats, Laszlo and Loaf, writing, singing, yoga, and reading.

My work supports people in finding connection. Connection to themself, to their body, and to their community, working in harmony while awakening the inner wisdom that supports healing and growth. I draw from my background in dance, performance, yoga, and somatic practices, attuning to the relationship between the body’s sensations, emotions, and the narratives that shape experience.

In working with preteens, adolescents, and adults in schools, hospitals, and community mental health clinics, I’ve learned that the struggles people face rarely happen in isolation. They are often shaped by systemic inequalities and the environments they have had to move through. I am committed to paying close attention to the broader contexts of a person’s life, including the cultural, familial, political, and structural forces that influence how we learn to survive, cope, and make meaning. I consider how our respective backgrounds and positionalities shape the therapeutic space, and I strive to cultivate a collaborative environment where your insight can fully emerge. This awareness deepens our work, offering a compassionate understanding of challenges, strengths, and possibilities for healing.

My Approach

My approach aims to support growth and understanding that honors individual healing as well as the nuanced ways our human experiences are connected to the broader community.

In therapy, we explore thoughts, sensations, images, emotions, movements, breath, and energy, paying close attention to what arises. Drawing from a relational, attachment-focused, and trauma-informed lens, I guide the process to support reconnection with your body and your authentic self. I use an integrative approach grounded in psychodynamic practice, Internal Family Systems (parts work), mindfulness techniques, and somatic-based tools to help you notice, feel, and respond to your emotions with compassion. I have a specialized focus working with LGBTQIA+ individuals, emerging adults, creatives, and artists.

I work from a place of attunement and curiosity, creating space for you to settle into your body and meet whatever arises with gentleness. I honor and deeply respect your lived experience, trusting that within you lies an innate understanding of what truly serves you.

My role is to support the gentle uncovering of that inner wisdom, often layered beneath old patterns, wounds, or limiting beliefs. By bringing awareness to physical sensations and emotional responses, we explore your experiences in a way that cultivates clarity and meaningful growth.

 

 

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You

You are an adult across any life span looking for support. You are curious about deepening your understanding of self and/or seeking a reliable space to heal, to learn, to grow, to feel understood, to cry, or to express parts of you that may feel neglected, repressed, or unseen.

I love working with LGBTQIA+ communities, women-identifying folks, artists, creatives, performers, and existential thinkers.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions regarding if we are a good fit.

Adult clients often bring concerns related to the following:

  • Depression, anxiety, or other mood-related challenges
  • Relationship difficulties
  • Trauma or PTSD
  • Life transitions
  • Family conflict
  • Gender and sexuality
  • Systemic stressors
  • Women’s issues
  • Grief/loss
  • Perfectionism
  • Healing from narcissistic parents
  • Adult abused as child
  • Existential questions or existential anxiety

Our Work Together

Our work together can help you process experiences and build greater clarity, resilience, and self-understanding. Together, we slow down, listen deeply, and attune to your needs in order to uncover sources of strength and identify areas you’d like to grow.

In our process, we cultivate a trusting, collaborative relationship in which I bring warmth, compassion, and humor. 

Along the way, I will provide tools that can offer a felt sense of hope and a window into your capacity for transformation.

 

 

 

 

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Services

Individual Psychotherapy

We meet weekly for individual psychotherapy sessions, offered in-person in 45-minute or 55-minute formats. My therapeutic orientation is grounded in psychodynamic psychotherapy, with an integrative approach that often incorporates somatic practices and Internal Family Systems (IFS) techniques. Together, we gently explore patterns, emotions, and different parts of yourself, while tuning into sensations in the body. This work can create space for greater awareness, integration, balance, and self-compassion.

What can I expect at my first session?

The first session should feel conversational. You can share what brings you here and we will explore what you hope to gain from therapy. This will allow us to understand what it may feel like in working together.

  

  

  

Specialties

  • Trauma & Complex Trauma

    Together, we gently explore the patterns shaped by overwhelming experiences, supporting your nervous system, deepening self-awareness, and strengthening your capacity for connection, both with yourself and with others.

Fees and Insurance

Session Fees without insurance

Individual: $185 for a 55-minute session
Individual: $150 for a 45-minute session

Sliding Scale

I reserve a small number of lower-fee spaces for clients whose financial situations make the full fee difficult. I remain dedicated to supporting access for people from communities that have faced systemic barriers to care. Please contact me to learn about availability.

Insurances Accepted

Aetna
Cigna
Quest Behavioral Health
Carelon Behavioral Health
Highmark BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York
Highmark BlueShield of Northeastern New York
United Healthcare (Optum)
Oscar (Optum)
Oxford (Optom)

If you wish to use insurance, please call your insurance company to verify coverage, deductible, and co-pay. If you do not see your insurance listed above, I can provide a superbill for reimbursement. Please contact your insurance company to see if they can provide reimbursement for out-of-network benefits.

In-person sessions are offered exclusively in Ithaca, NY. Telehealth sessions are also available throughout New York State.

Contact

I offer a 20-minute phone consultation to all potential clients at no cost. Please contact me for more information or to learn more about my approach.

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