Briana has experience providing counseling services for Mount Sinai Hospital’s employee assistance program (EAP), as well NYC’s largest public sector employee union, helping her clients handle issues around job jeopardy, anger management, conflict resolution, and crisis management, as well as personal/family issues impacting the health and well-being of those individuals in the workplace. After returning to NJ, Briana continued her clinical work by providing therapy to both groups and individuals in partial-hospitalization programs (PHP), intensive outpatient programs (IOP), and outpatient counseling. 

As a clinical therapist, Briana believes that each person is an expert in themselves. However, sometimes we need a little help from an unbiased, neutral, yet empathetic and supportive third party in accessing and understanding that information. Using a strengths-based perspective, her goal is to help clients unlock that information and know themself better to more easily navigate the trials and tribulations they experience in their lives. Briana’s treatment approach blends elements from EMDR, ACT, CBT, DBT, and solution-focused therapy, while using an anti-racist lens. Whenever possible, Briana enjoys blending humor into her work and takes a laid-back approach, considering it the greatest honor and privilege to be allowed into the personal lives of her clients, all of whom are special, unique, and beyond comparison.  

Licenses & Qualifications:

• Licensed Clinical Social Worker (#44SC05966100)

• Trained in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

• Received training in Prolonged Grief Disorder Therapy at Columbia University’s The Center for Prolonged Grief

• Member of NASWa

• Master’s in Social Work from Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College (CUNY) 

• Field of Practice Specialization, “World of Work” from Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Art and Art History from Goucher College