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I work with children, parents, and couples, helping families navigate life's challenges, strengthen relationships, and develop healthier patterns of communication and connection. Whether your child is experiencing emotional or behavioral difficulties, you're facing parenting challenges, or you're seeking to improve your relationship with your partner, I approach therapy with compassion, curiosity, and respect for your unique experiences

Hello! I'm a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who has been working in the mental health field since 1996. I bring significant experience working in underserved communities as a psychotherapist, Clinical Director, and Program Director of multiple homeless shelters serving families, single adults, and adult couples without children. These experiences imbued me with deep experience working with individuals with complex trauma, PTSD, substance use and abuse issues, immigration trauma, and serious mental illness. Additionally, I work with couples, families, and high-achieving high-net worth individuals from diverse personal and professional backgrounds.

I'm a graduate of Fordham University’s prestigious Graduate School of Social Service, where I later went on to teach as an Adjunct Professor of Social Work. Additionally, I'm a graduate of the Practitioner Program in Gestalt Therapy from Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy in New York, as well as a Certified Integrated Feeling Therapist, both experiential, body-based modalities.

I help you simplify your medications and narrow down to 1-2 medications that work best for you. My patients would describe me as thoughtful and caring. I strive for patient focused care and manage symptoms with medications that you feel comfortable taking. You set the pace of your treatment. I believe in informed and collaborative decision making.

I’m a graduate of Columbia University’s School of Social Work and I have been working in community mental health for more than a decade.

I specialize in helping women, millennials and high achievers with:

• Life Transitions: marriage, breakups, relationships, career changes, emerging adulthood, depression, anxiety
• Perinatal Health: depression, anxiety, adapting to new roles, IVF, infertility, body image & change
• High Achieving: perfectionism, work/life balance, imposter syndrome, competitiveness

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 10 years of experience supporting individuals through life transitions, trauma, anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, and emotional stress. I am passionate about creating a space where clients feel genuinely seen, heard, and supported while also being thoughtfully challenged to grow and reach their goals.

I'm a trauma-informed therapist in New York and Florida who works specifically with moms of explosive boys. My training is rooted in understanding the nervous system — which means I work beneath the behavior, not just at the surface of it. I'm not going to hand you a sticker chart or tell you to pick your battles. I understand what you're actually dealing with — and I take it seriously.

I utilize an evidenced-based holistic approach with the patient's concerns being front and center. If medications are to be used, then it is priority to ensure that the most benefit is provided, with the least amount of medication onboard. The most important tool a provider can use is simply listening. We are all seeking that "better space for mental well being, and I strive in helping people move closer on this journey.

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who specializes in working with children, adolescents, adults, and families. My priority is to help you achieve wellbeing in your relational, emotional, and mental health. I look forward to connecting with you on your goals for therapy, and how we can achieve them together!

Find me on Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/profile/1696966

My approach is collaborative, creative, and grounded in body awareness and compassion. I’m a licensed, board‐certified Art Therapist with training in somatic and sex therapy. My work is culturally responsive and affirming, especially of LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC identities. I’m passionate about helping people heal from shame, body disconnection, and identity‐related challenges, and about supporting couples navigating differences in desire and intimacy. My background in art therapy shapes sessions that often weave creativity, expression, and the body as pathways toward healing. I hope that therapy can offer you a deeper sense of belonging. You can learn more about my practice at natalieafranco.com.

Throughout my career as a clinical social worker and psychotherapist, I have worked with clients of all lived experiences, and find it meaningful that I am able to walk with clients from point A to point B (or sometimes, all the way to point Z and back again). It is significant to be witness to their growth, supporting them throughout very critical moments in their life journey, and ultimately, seeing them achieve their goals in therapy and beyond.

Part of what drew me to become a psychotherapist was having meaningful experiences where I felt supported in my own emergence in the world as an ever-evolving, multidimensional, curious, and empathetic person. From the very start of the therapy process, I emphasize to my client that I am here to offer support, guidance, or dive into the important work that they are investing in.

I also would like to share a more concise answer: I am a human being, trying to figure out how to navigate a complex world, and all of the dynamics, just like you! I say this to emphasize that I find points of connecting with clients to form a strong therapeutic alliance, as I am on your team, and want to see you excel.