Justine Gottlieb , LCSW-R

Justine Gottlieb is a licensed clinical social worker who uses a strengths-focused, wellness-oriented approach to therapy. She draws on two decades of experience to help people manage anxiety, depression, stress, and relationship or parenting challenges. Her style is calm and attentive, and she offers practical ideas alongside opportunities to reflect on deeper patterns.

People come to her with common life stresses, grief, trauma and abuse, or questions about intimacy and self-esteem. She also supports concerns related to family of origin, communication problems, sexuality, and aging. Justine pays attention to both immediate coping needs and longer-term emotional patterns that influence daily life.

In sessions she combines conversational techniques with psychodynamic reflection to look at how past experiences shape current feelings. She also uses motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons for change and to set achievable goals. This mix aims to balance insight with concrete steps forward.

Justine practices in New York and holds the LCSW-R credential, which indicates a licensed clinical social worker with advanced supervised experience. Her work is geared toward adults, parents, and young adults facing transitions or persistent concerns. She communicates plainly and keeps recommendations practical so people can try them between sessions.

If someone is thinking about starting therapy, she recommends a short intake and a few early sessions to see what feels most helpful. Many people find that learning small coping skills and discussing relational patterns opens the door to steady progress.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Justine uses psychodynamic therapy and motivational interviewing in her online work. Psychodynamic therapy looks at recurring feelings and relationship patterns that started in the past and still affect daily life; it can help when someone wants to understand why they react a certain way. Motivational interviewing is a collaborative, goal-focused method that helps people weigh options, find personal reasons to change, and take small concrete steps toward those goals.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. She will work together with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and may adapt the mix over time as those needs change.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let conversations feel closer to an in-person visit, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a quieter audio check-in is preferred, and messaging or chat can fit short updates or support between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different life routines.