get to know lieb
There are a number of credentials I could share about myself and ways you might decide if I'm the right therapist for you, but honestly, between you and me, what matters is that I love this work and I believe in this work. I feel deeply humbled to hold people's stories and hearts for a living. The trust that this work requires is no small thing, and I never take that lightly.
In my clinical practice, I use theories rooted in an anti-racist, queer liberation, harm reduction, and body-neutral framework. I feel most drawn to this work through an attachment-focused analytical frame. We have all been harmed in relationships, and I believe our healing must also exist in relationships. I know we cannot look at one's personal frame without understanding the systemic and cultural impact that intersectionality has had on one's own experience.
I have committed to my clinical work always evolving, and we will both teach each other what comes next. I can't promise a safe place, but I can promise an accountable one. I will create the container, I will show up for rupture, and together we will build a foundation of trust to help you heal, grow, challenge, and shift the things that brought you here.
I received my Master's in Clinical Social Work from Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College in New York City. After graduation, I worked in community mental health, supporting young mothers on their journey towards recovery from opioid-based addictions. I then joined a group practice where I've worked for many years, supporting folks to heal complicated relationships with food, their bodies, their boundaries, their gender, and their sexuality. I believe I am a partner in this work with you, and as people change, heal, and move forward in their lives, I feel profoundly impacted to bear witness and be a part of your story. It is miraculous.
Finding the right therapist is a process: trust yourself, explore, ask hard questions. We work for you and with you.
I am a white, queer, abolitionist, non-binary, dyslexic, Jewish, body-liberatory therapist, and most importantly, a client. The only thing I ask of the folks I work with is a commitment to show up, and the rest we will figure out together.
“Simply put, Lieb’s wholehearted support and guidance have completely transformed my relationship to myself and to those around me. I started working with them in a time of deep personal struggle: with food, anxiety and my job. They created a safe and nurturing space for me to show up fully and share parts of myself that I believed were too ugly, angry, and controversial to reveal to anyone. With immense kindness and patience, Lieb has shown me the power of slowing down into tough feelings and experiences in order to intuitively navigate through them; a revelatory practice in a world that is always asking us to be “productive” and go faster. What I love about working with Lieba is their deep belief in my ability to embrace, celebrate and heal all aspects of my personhood. As someone that has always viewed themselves as introspective and communicative, their radical presence, care, honesty, warmth, and humor have opened me up to new levels of rich emotional experience as well as a growing sense of personal empowerment and freedom. For the first time in my life, I’m understanding what unapologetic selfhood can look and feel like.”