Who Is Josh The Therapist?
I am a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who specializes in mental health counseling. I am Brooklyn born and Far Rockaway raised. My goal is to create accessible healing spaces for folks who are seeking ways to love themselves and find restorative ways to heal from their experiences. My job is to center the folks I work with and assist them on their healing journey. They are in the driver’s seat and it’s a privilege to be allowed in the passenger in their journey.
“I am a true believer that we are spiritual beings that are having physical experiences.”
“I challenge the people I work with to love themselves beyond what their situation and negative emotions are telling them”
Clinical Approach
I am a true believer that we are spiritual beings that are having physical experiences. At times, these physical experiences can cause us to feel detached from community with ourselves, our family members, and friends. This detachment can bring about feelings and emotions that are difficult to sit with. Feelings like sadness, worry, hopelessness, confusion, and emptiness. These feelings are normal and my goal is to create a safe space for you to find your way back to community through humanizing your experiences; to use your strengths along with the resources around you to make that journey back to community.
Through my clinical experiences, I have learned that evidence based practices mean nothing without a strong therapeutic relationship. I look to cocreate a safe healing space with you to encourage difficult conversations about complex emotions that are challenging to speak about through the use of evidence based practices altered just for you and your needs.
My approach is restorative, supportive, and constructive. I challenge the people I work with to love themselves beyond what their situation and negative emotions are telling them. I truly believe this is an effective anti-oppressive way of understanding self and creating community that affirms your healing, growth, and sense of self.
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What has Josh The Therapist Done So Far?
I have spent the majority of my career in the Crown Heights community providing psychotherapy to older teens and adults who normally wouldn't have access to therapy. My expertise and curricula focus are on dismantling the stigma of mental health care within the Black/Caribbean community in order to create healing spaces for those who are prevented from having access. I specialize in individual trauma-based therapy and I am well versed in many evidence-based practices, which allows me to tailor my approach for disenfranchised people.
My work has historically been rooted in level analysis through an anti-oppressive to approach discourse by assessing how the macro and meso levels within systems impact the micro. I have also participated in policy work and has assisted in the creation of college level curriculum taught within Sing Sing Correctional facility for men who were not expected to be released from incarceration. I have also co-created the Mass Incarceration Conversation Series with Dr. Jae James, which provided conversation addressing the impact of hyper incarceration of subjugated communities.
I have presented my work around dismantling anti-blackness within the social work profession for Children of Promise, the NASW-NYC Conference, the National Conference in Washington, DC., as well as undergraduate and graduate level spaces at NYU.
I am also an adjunct professor at NYU teaching the Diversity Race Oppression and Privilege course.