Hi, my name is Heather MacGibbon, and I’m from MacGibbon Psychotherapy. I’m a licensed clinical social worker in New York and New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Louisiana, Iowa, and Texas, and there may be more states to come. If you’re watching this video, it 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 primarily am a psychodynamic therapist. Which means I do have ego based approaches and I look at defenses. We might talk about the past in your family relationships and how that’s affecting your relationships currently. But I also draw on things like dialectical behavioral therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy, internal family systems, and also motivational interviewing.
I really try to draw on what other tools I think are going to help target your goals. And I want to focus on the idea of your goals because that’s what you’re coming to therapy for. So the two of us in conversation will 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’ve developed over the years. I work a lot with anxiety and depression and life transitions. So transitioning from say high school to college or college to the 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 in dealing with trauma. People have found it very helpful because you have to have some distress tolerance skills in place to handle what’s happening as you start to uncover your trauma.
Also, I work with a lot of gender and sexuality issues. I’ve worked a lot with the LGBTQIA plus community and a lot of non binary and trans folks on their journeys. I do focus also on the neurodivergent community, ADHD, ASD, and finding a way to cope with the rest of the world, which I think is very important.
So having a place where that is valued, and you can talk is key.