Heather MacGibbon Introduction

Hi, my name is Heather MacGibbon, and I’m a licensed clinical social worker in New York and New Jersey, also in Massachusetts and Louisiana. And there are going to be more states to come. If you’re watching this video, that means that you’re already looking for the best path for your own treatment, and hopefully I can be a part of that path for you.

I take a multidisciplinary approach. I’m primarily a psychodynamic therapist, which means I do have an ego based approach where we look at defenses. We might talk about past family relationships and how that may affect your relationships currently. But I also draw on things like dialectical behavioral therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, internal family systems, and also motivational interviewing.

I really try to draw on whatever tools I think are going to help target your goals. And I want to focus on the idea of your goals, because that is what you’re coming to treatment for. And so, the two of us in conversation, we’ll talk about what those goals are, and try to find a treatment plan that’s going to help target them most directly.

I have a couple of specialties, that I have developed over the years. I work a lot with anxiety and depression, and life transitions. So transitions from, say, high school to college, or college to workforce. Those are all important times where having a therapist that is there for you is really important.

I also work with different types of trauma and use different modes of therapy along with my psychodynamic approach to kind of have a two pronged approach dealing with trauma. And people have found that very helpful because I feel like you have to have the kind of distress tolerance skills in place to handle what’s happening as you start to uncover your trauma. Also, I work a lot on gender and sexuality issues. I’ve worked a lot with the LGBTQIA+ community and a lot with non binary and trans folks on their journeys. I do focus also on the neurodivergent community, ADHD, ASD, and finding ways to cope with the rest of the world, I think is very important. And so having a place where that’s valued, and you can talk about it, I think is key.