Alyssa Freeman (She/Her)

Alyssa Freeman is a clinical social worker based in Brooklyn, NY. She graduated from NYU Silver School of Social Work and has a private practice.

Her practice spans a diverse group of adults, adolescents and children each of whom, based in personal experience, come to treatment. She begins psychotherapy by thinking with the client about presenting difficulties and the context. This likely includes one’s history, intergenerational influences and the socio-cultural world. She is dedicated to fostering developmentand elasticity to repeat less and develop a new understanding. She works with people who struggle with anxieties, mood disorders, trauma and relationship difficulties, all of which, when not deeply thought about, interfere with a stable sense of self.

She has a long-standing specialization working with adults and children who are living with and impacted by illness, complicated grief, divorce and all the associated complications of blending and loss. She is in training at the Anni Bergman Parent Infant Program affiliated with IPTAR and CFS. She works with mothers and parents who are at risk for perinatal and post-partum depression and/or anxiety, offering dyadic therapy to support early bonding and secure attachment.