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As a proud New York City native, Helenmarie developed a deep passion for helping others after witnessing the many hardships faced within the diverse communities she grew up around. These experiences inspired her commitment to supporting individuals and families as they navigate life’s challenges and build healthier, more fulfilling lives.

With over 10 years of experience in social work, Helenmarie has worked across a wide range of settings including city and federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, schools, and outpatient mental health clinics. Throughout her career, she has had the privilege of serving diverse populations across all age groups.

Helenmarie is a Bilingual mental health professional who specializes in helping individuals process and heal from trauma while developing practical tools to manage the emotional and life challenges that can stem from those experiences. She strives to create a safe, supportive, and empowering therapeutic environment where clients feel heard, understood, and encouraged to grow.

Her therapeutic approach is integrative and tailored to the unique needs of each client. She incorporates evidence-based modalities including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness, Supportive Therapy, Art in Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing, among others.

Helenmarie believes that healing is a collaborative process and is dedicated to helping clients build resilience, strengthen coping skills, and move toward meaningful and lasting change.

Annie is a psychotherapist and a trained psychoanalyst with over 20 years of experience. She has been with State Street Healing since 2015. She uses a blend of modalities to meet the needs of her clients and her goals for each client include skillful management of emotions, interpersonal effectiveness, and enhancement of growth through self-awareness.

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Barbara is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and a Certified Alcohol and Substance Use Counselor (CASAC) with experience in Social Work since 1999. She came to State Street Healing dedicated to providing effective clinical supervision to the psychotherapists in the Outpatient Mental Health Clinic. She has a strong passion for suicide prevention and education. Over the years, she has held various positions doing Quality Assurance, Clinical Supervision, direct service work, and was a Program Director in a non-profit working in collaboration with the NYC Department of Education. Her goal is to meet the patient where they are, and to hone in on the patient’s goals during sessions together.  "We will explore the obstacles that interfere with achieving these goals and strategize together in order to understand how you can live your best life and surpass the obstacles in their path."

Barbara's therapeutic focuses include pregnancy/perinatal period, depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and grief.

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Vic is a recent graduate of the School of Visual Arts with my Masters in Art Therapy, and her pronouns are she/her. She will be working under a limited permit as she pursue her required hours to apply for licensure in ArtTherapy. Vic’s primary goal as a therapist is to curate an environment where her clients feel safe to explore their creativity, take emotional risks, be vulnerable and ultimately to learn more about themselves. Sheis also a proponent of strong community as an essential element for mental health and strive to create opportunities for individuals to connect withothers through shared creative experiences. Vic achieves this throughthoughtful program development to engage the clinic community in validating,supportive and collaborative group art therapy spaces. 

 As she continues to build her professional identity, Vic aims to embody a strengths-based, person centered approach that postures my clients as the experts of their own lived experiences and the masters of their destiny, withVic serving as a supportive witness to their growth. She has experience as an art therapy intern facilitating individual and group sessions at Counseling in Schools and Heartshare’s Outpatient BehavioralHealth Clinic. She has also worked in art education and program development at organizations such as Greenwich House, Harlem Children’s Zone and more. In addition to her Masters in Art Therapy, Vic has a BFA Inc Visual Arts fromColumbia University. 

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Jessica is an art therapist on a mission to share art as a tool for healing, self-exploration, ands elf-affirmation.  She has experience working with diverse populations of all ages, specializing in helping teens and adults with anxiety, depression, self-esteem issues, and self-worth concerns. Jessica’s approach integrates narrative art therapy, attachment-based therapy, mindfulness, and various somatic practices. Through the creative process, clients can explore inner experiences that are difficult to express verbally. Although art making is not mandatory, she strives to create a safe space where clients can explore emotions, gain insights, and discover authentic self-expression through art. 

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Domenica is a LCSW who has been a Social Worker for more than 25 years. 15 of those years have been spent as a therapist with State Street Wellness, where she provides a safe space that is welcoming and free from judgment. Her philosophy is that no two persons’ circumstances are alike and she takes great care to identify a client’s unique needs, background, and perspective. Domenica respects each individual's beliefs, culture, and points of view, working together with her clients to form a therapeutic relationship. She is most interested in working with adults, but is open to any client looking for a therapeutic environment. She also works toward processing complex feelings and establishing coping skills specific to a person’s experience by providing support and care to create a blended approach that is best for the individual being treated.

Linda began working at State Street Wellness in 2014, after completing a Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Psychology at NYU, and obtaining a Master’s Degree in Art Therapy at the School of Visual Arts. She believes in the innate strength and resilience of all people. If a client is dealing with anxiety, depression, difficult relationships, or the aftermath of abuse, her role is to help them discover their own power for healing, coping, and thriving. She promotes that everyone deserves a chance to find peace and joy. Linda is deeply committed to continued professional development to better serve her clients.

A significant portion of her professional development work focuses on building skills to support clients as they recover from traumatic experiences. As a trauma-informed clinician, she offers an integrated approach to empowerment by blending psycho-dynamic modalities with creative arts therapy, play therapy, and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). Pulling from these different methodologies allows for a flexible and respectful process, sensitive to the age of the client and to their life history. 



Octavio’s primary goal as a Psychotherapist is to assist clients in a supportive and collaborative manner in enhancing their ability to function more successfully at home, school, work, and within social environments in the context of their presented behaviorally based problems or emotional condition with the objective of moving rapidly from assessment of the client’s presenting problem to formulating and implementing an appropriate treatment plan that addresses the client’s needs and goals. He has over 39 years of clinical experience as a New York State License Clinical Social Work and have worked with vast client populations.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is his preferred form of psychological treatment, which focuses on the client’s presented faulty or unhelpful ways of thinking and the client’s learned patterns of unhelpful behavior with the aim of helping clients change their thinking patterns. This helps clients learn to recognize their distortions in thinking that are creating problems and evaluate them considering reality. Clients gain a better understanding of their motivations and the motivation of others. Learning to use problem-solving skills to cope with their presented difficult situations helps the client develop a greater sense of confidence in one’s own abilities. Moreover, when warranted to help clients learn to face their fears instead of avoiding them, he uses role play exercises to help clients prepare for potentially problematic interactions with others and help clients learn to calm their minds and relax their bodies.

Play Therapy is another preferred form of psychotherapy Octavio utilizes in practice when working with children presenting difficulties with expressing themselves or emotions.

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Rodney’s primary goal as a therapist is to be the catalyst for individuals and families to make the necessary changes to enhance their relationships and mental health. He considers himself a “generalist”, with no necessary focus, however the ‘focus’ becomes the presenting problem and/or concern that client(s) being forth. Therefore, “individuals” and “families” have become his main focus. He has 22 years of experience as a mental health and behavioral therapist and started at State Street Wellness as an intern and has remained at the agency since. Rodney’s therapeutic philosophy is to focus on the person first, considering the person arrives with an issue, but can also shift to a solution centered approach quickly depending on the concern.

Lynette began her career at State Street Healing as the Clinical Supervisor and became the Clinic Director in September 2018. Her goal is to ensure that every client who seeks services has their needs assessed and that the treatment provided helps to alleviate the symptoms that brought them to the clinic. As a social work practitioner, Lynette has provided services to people across their lifespan. She utilizes a client-centered approach and works in collaboration with each client to plan their course of therapy. She prefers a brief therapy approach to focus on the most pressing reason for a person seeking therapeutic services while also combining various methodologies in her treatment approach as “one size doesn’t fit all". She likes to incorporate humor and love of music in her work with clients.

Robert is an Artist and a Creative Arts Therapist — as well as Associate Clinic Director of State Street Healing. He has always had a desire to help people through creativity. In the years since he discovered Art Therapy as a student, Robert has used this process to gain deeper understanding into his work and process. In his professional capacity of over thirty years, Robert has learned how to use this creative process to motivate, inspire, help initiate ideas, and provide art therapy to children, adults, and families. He has continued to provide supervisions to graduate level students to help them define their idea of what Art Therapy is and as a professional, whether an Art Therapist or Social Worker, helps them develop their own sense of professional identity.

As an educator through the MPS Art Therapy Program at the School of Visual Arts, Robert seeks to extend the classroom environment beyond that space encouraging individuals to take every moment within the process, no matter how challenging, to learn, grow, and apply that understanding in an informed manner. He focuses on how to conceptualize new solutions and directions to pursue using the creative process. He has used the creative process to help individuals establish a foundation where the art introduced creates a lattice that helps them identify, explore, and resolve issues they have.

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Lillian is an empowering leader with extensive experience in behavioral health, program management, and clinical practice. She is a dynamic educator with deep understanding of diverse cultures and histories of improving staff skills, operations, and client results through effective coaching, best practices and therapeutic solutions. Lillian is passionate about working with youth in care and partnering with families for a successful life.

Her focus issues include trauma focused CBT, grief therapy, and she works with children, adolescents, and young adults in the foster care system.