Ellen S Fader, LCSW

Specialties

Psychotherapy is a collaboration between you and your therapist to meet life’s challenges, create solutions and improve your quality of life. Imagine your life if you accomplished the goals you set for youself.

What gets in the way?

Are you stuck, immobilized with your career, struggling with relationships? Awaken exhausted, depressed? Do past traumas plague today’s quality of life?

I am a results-​oriented psychotheraist, integrate conventional talk therapy, CBT and innovative approaches to accelerate growth and healing that include EMDR, mind/​body techniques, and other methods. My work includes couples, partnerships and relationship issues, multi-​cultural families, trauma experiences, domestic violence, sexual assault, incest and other abuse, depression, phobias and anxiety disorders, workplace challenges and career struggles, OCD, chronic illness, grief and loss, eating disorders, body image and identity issues, self esteen & enhancing your well-​being and mindfulness-​based therapy.

History

Established in 1998.

Prior to becoming a psychotherapist, I was a corporate communications/​investor relations executive in the media industry, and served as a senior officer of stock exchange-​listed companies, was a member of two board of directors and the advisory board of an industry association.

During that time, I received my Master’s degree from Fordham, completed a post-​graduate externship in couples and family therapy at Ackerman Institute, acquired several hundred hours of CEUs in trauma and other areas of therapy, and became a certified EMDR practitioner and consultant and trained mediator.

For three years prior to expanding my practice to fulltime, I held the position of Director of ⁹⁄₁₁ Mental Health Programs for Safe Horizon. I led a Tier 1 disaster response team, worked with survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.

In 2008, I expanded my practice to fulltime. I am on staff at Ackerman Institute, president of the alumni association and am a clinical affiliate with MSK Hospital.