Deborah Schnitzer , LCSW

Deborah Schnitzer is a licensed clinical social worker with 21 years of experience. She focuses on relationship, family, trauma and abuse, parenting, stress, anxiety, grief, and other life challenges. Deborah aims to meet people where they are and offer practical tools to manage day-to-day struggles.

She uses a mix of approaches to fit each person’s needs. Sessions emphasize listening, clear feedback, and skills you can try between meetings. Deborah believes clients are experts on their own lives and works alongside them rather than directing every step.

Her style is straightforward and respectful. She avoids judgment and explains techniques in plain language. Many clients come for help with intimacy, communication problems, codependency, or coping after loss and big life changes.

Deborah also supports people facing caregiver stress, blended family issues, abandonment, and challenges tied to aging. She draws from methods that teach emotion regulation, improve relationships, and shift unhelpful thinking patterns. Those tools are presented as concrete exercises and small experiments you can use in daily life.

Before becoming a clinician she taught at graduate and undergraduate levels, and she continues to bring that educational approach into sessions. Deborah describes therapy as a collaborative learning process where new habits are practiced and adjusted over time. Her practice is based in New York and she offers services in English, including work with international clients.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds shape current relationships and emotional reactions; it helps people who struggle with trust, abandonment fears, and closeness. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thoughts and patterns and teaches practical steps to change them, which can ease anxiety, depression, and stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy aims to help people identify and express core emotions so they can improve intimacy and repair connection.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Deborah will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and comfort level. She adapts techniques as therapy progresses so the plan stays useful and realistic.

Online sessions offer flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or you need a quick check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging can support short updates, reflection between sessions, or when writing helps you sort thoughts. These options help therapy fit into busy lives and different schedules.