Donna Stern-Bavuso,LCSW

As a therapist I am privileged to help. I provide a space where clients can rediscover or develop authentic selves and deepen emotional connections with others. I enable clients to recognize how thoughts, beliefs and values affect relationships and to consider new ways of being in the world; to develop healthier adaptive strategies when facing problems, and to work through past and present trauma, grief, and losses. Psychotherapy does not have to be painful – it can be a safe, creative, and playful process of strengthening one’s health and well-being.

My clinical approach is interactive and integrates contemporary psychoanalytic theory with other approaches including cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness practice and Somatic Experiencing, a mind/body-based trauma resolution method that works directly with the nervous system — where all mental health symptoms reside – to resolve symptoms and promote emotional healing.

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The area of my clinical expertise include depression, anxiety, post traumatic stress, relationships, adoption and fertility issues, substance abuse and recovery.