Lisa Lefkowitz (she/her) is a second-year Master's candidate at NYU’s Silver School of Social Work. Previously, Lisa worked at Sanctuary for Families supporting gender-based violence survivors and completing clinical training in the field of trauma.

Lisa’s approach to therapy is warm, collaborative, and engaged. She believes in the potential for healing and growth through a therapeutic relationship that is caring, attuned, and nonjudgmental. Lisa works primarily from a psychodynamic/relational perspective to help explore connections between past and present in order to transform ways of relating to ourselves and others. She integrates insight work with skills-based methods to manage symptoms in the present moment, using aspects of dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) to address emotions, mindfulness, and the body. With couples, Lisa utilizes a psychodynamic approach rooted in attachment and trauma theories combined with practical skills derived from DBT and Imago Relationship Therapy (IRT).

Lisa has experience with issues including anxiety, depression, trauma, body image, disordered eating, chronic illness, belonging & otherness, self-esteem, parenting, creativity, identity, neurodiverse couples, and blended families.

Before training as a therapist, Lisa received her B.A. in Visual Arts from Oberlin College, and worked as an artist for several decades. Those years of generative practice gave her a deep appreciation for the creative process of observation, nuance, and abstract connections – all fundamental to the transmutative power of therapy.