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Lena Gilman(She/her)
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
New Jersey

In-network with

Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Cigna, Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey, Oscar Health, Oxford, and United Healthcare

Specializes in

ADD/ADHD, Anxiety, and Trauma

Great to meet you!

As a Clinical social worker, registered yoga teacher, and former NY/NJ state-certified educator, I believe every individual is a unique combination of a physical body, personality, character traits, and strengths, with unique learning styles, and perspectives. Experience and trauma affect how we navigate our world and relationships. Understanding ourselves and our adaptive responses aids development improves mindfulness, insight, and self-awareness, and allows authentic growth.

A bit about my approach to therapy

Patient focus, concerns, reports, and goals drive my therapeutic approach since therapy should always be individually crafted and patient-centered. Therapy is collaborative, the client brings their experience, emotion, and cognitions, and the therapist is a companion in the process. Awareness building is a continual focus, purposeful feedback, and client engagement facilitates change to improve outcomes gaining personal agency, and ultimately holistic wellbeing.

What you can expect from our first session

Clients should expect support and collaboration towards goal attainment with a focus on improved function. Using a psychoeducational approach, interactive assessments, and personally tailored therapeutic modalities, including positive and integrative psychology, I assist clients in understanding risk/protective factors, beliefs, and habits that impede empowerment and well-being. Therapy sessions focus on strengths and struggles, mindfulness practices, solution finding, and self-awareness.


Lena's style is

Affirming
Solution-oriented
Empowering

Insurance carriers Lena accepts

Aetna
BlueCross BlueShield
Cigna
Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey
Oscar
Oxford
UnitedHealthcare

More about Lena

MSW (Master of Social Work) at RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK
License type: LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker)
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Languages: English
Works with: Children, Adolescents, Adults, and Seniors
More specialties: Maternal Mental Health, Stress, Women's Issues, Grief, Loss, and Depression
Modalities: Trauma Focused, Codependency Behavioral, Mindfulness-Based (MBCT), Strength-Based, Art Therapy, Play, Attachment-based, Solution Focused Brief (SFBT), Positive Psychology, Relational, Humanistic, Experiential Therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Interpersonal, and Motivational Interviewing

Location

225 New Jersey 35 104
RED BANK, NJ 07701