Rachel Easterly, LCSW
Therapy sessions are provided virtually in New York State or in person in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Rachel Easterly, LCSW (she/her/hers)
Rachel is a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist practicing in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Rachel works with adults, families and couples to address relationship challenges, attachment patterns, family of origin issues, existential crisis, and mental health diagnoses such as depression, bipolar disorder, psychosis, trauma and anxiety. Rachel is an LGBTQIA+/body positive affirming clinician, integrating awareness of the struggles of our political world. Rachel studied literature and gender studies at NYU and obtained a Masters of Social Work at Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College. She has postgraduate training at National Institute for the Psychotherapies in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and William Alanson White Institute in family systems/analytic couples therapy.
Crisis can be an opportunity for transformation. With professional and lived experience in parenting, performing arts and queer communities, Rachel believes every person’s innate capacity for growth is forged in relationships.
Prior to private practice, Rachel has worked as a therapist at Bellevue Hospital, in residential settings addressing substance use, and was part of the team starting New York City’s first crisis respite center, a homelike alternative to psychiatric hospitalization.
Rachel has been featured in PsychCentral’s article Is Manipulation a Symptom of Bipolar Disorder?
Education and Specialized Training
Education:
Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College, MSW
Gallatin School of Individualized Study, NYU, BA
Specialized Training:
Interpersonal Psychoanalytic-Systemic Couples Therapy, William Alanson White Institute
Contemporary Psychoanalytic Couples Therapy Program, “On Psychic Development of the Couple”
Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples
Needs Adapted Treatment Model, Family Therapy for Early Intervention in Psychosis, DOHMH
