WORKS WITH:

• Adults

• Tweens and teens

• Young adults

EDUCATION:

Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, Trauma Program, Master of Social Work, New York, NY

University of Vermont, BA in History, Burlington, VT

POST-GRADUATE TRAINING:

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Levels 1 & 2

Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT)

AEDP/Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, Level 1

Jen Cohn, LCSW

Healing begins with building a strong, trusting therapeutic relationship that provides safety and security as we explore painful or challenging subjects.  Jen’s therapeutic style is nonjudgmental, warm, authentic, and supportive, incorporating humor, playfulness, and creativity. Together, we identify what is no longer working for you and what are stories from the past that are getting in the way of you fully experiencing your present.

Motivated by her deep belief that every person has the innate capacity to heal, Jen will work with you to discover increased sense of comfort, safety, joy, and connectedness to others.  Jen draws from her training in EMDR, TF-CBT, Motivational Interviewing, Relational Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, as well as attachment-focused and cognitive-behavioral approaches.

Additionally, her experience with teenagers and young adults stems from a deep appreciation that these times of transition can feel particularly overwhelming, so much is changing, so many opportunities for growth.  She values the courage, creativity and authenticity teens and young adults bring forward during these transitions. She has extensive experience providing therapy in community-based mental health clinics both at the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center and Children’s Aid Society.

Jen welcomes all parts of your identity and history into the therapy room along, responding with attunement to challenging thoughts, feelings, memories opening new opportunities to experience support, curiosity, and the deepning joy and relief of social connection. Jen has experience working with people across the identity spectrum, including LQBTQ+ community, and families. Jen values open and honest conversations about intersectionality and the ways her own identities impact the therapeutic relationship.

Prior to becoming a therapist, Jen worked as a fundraiser for community-based organizations that support immigrants, refugees, and survivors of violence throughout New York City, such as Day One, the Arab American Family Support Center, and the Arab American Association of NY. This experience in community-based settings continues to inform her practice and values as a therapist. Jen practices therapy through an intersectional lens that incorporates the importance of everyone’s unique identities, background, family of origin, cultural resources, and the reverberations of intergenerational, historical trauma.

Specialties

• Trauma, PTSD, complex trauma

• Dissociation

• Self-harm and suicidal thoughts

• Dissatisfaction in interpersonal relationships

• Grief and complicated bereavement 

• Depression

• Teens and young adults