Jennifer Stone, LCSW-R, Founder and Director
Jennifer Stone is the Founder and Director of NYC CBT Center. She is a Beck Institute CBT Certified Clinician (BI-CBT) and Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies Diplomate (A-CBT).
“Change the way you think to change how you feel and what you do.”
Approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an empirically supported treatment shown to be effective for a wide range of concerns, including depression, anxiety, eating disorders, compulsive behaviors, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), trauma and insomnia.
Cognitive behavior therapy is an active type of treatment focused on learning how your thoughts affect emotions and behavior. Think of it as being a “detective of your mind,” where you learn how to examine your thoughts. We typically accept our thoughts to be true, to be fact. What if our thoughts are unhelpful, distorted or dysfunctional? What if they are not true?
The focus is on experimenting with looking at things differently and changing behavior. The ultimate goal is teaching you how to be your own therapist.
about me
Jennifer Stone, LCSW-R is a licensed clinical social worker in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Florida and the Founder and Director of the NYC CBT Center in New York City. She is a Beck Institute Certified Clinician (BI-CBT), a designation that only 14 other providers hold in New York State. She is also a Diplomate from the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies (A-CBT).
She started her private practice in 2009 while working within community mental health centers at The Institute for Family Health whose goal is to serve the under-served throughout New York City aiming to provide the highest quality medical care, social service support and evidence based mental health treatment to all New Yorkers. She imagined that she would one day bring together a group of like-minded cognitive behaviorally oriented clinicians focused on providing behaviorally based evidence based treatments to clients.
She worked alongside primary care physicians and the mental health and social service teams to attain a holistic view of patients and provide a variety of assistance to a highly vulnerable population. Through her years working in community health centers, she polished management skills, provided, and completed training in a variety of areas from working with clients with suicidality and trauma to maximizing services at bustling mental health clinics while also providing exceptional clinical care to some of the most fragile clients in NYC- Quite a challenge and absolutely necessary! It was in this setting that she started to specialize in working with depression and anxiety and honed my skills in a variety of types of therapeutic models that are evidence-based such as cognitive behavior therapy.
Jennifer initially gravitated towards behaviorally focused treatment since her first introduction to CBT in graduate school at NYU where she completed her Master of Arts in Social Work. Her interest in understanding how one’s perspective, or rather their story can change how one feels, paved the way for her to pursue a career in talk therapy and specifically in CBT.
Over the last 20 years, Jennifer became an expert in treating anxiety, stress, depression, perfectionism, binge eating and weight loss/weight management, insomnia, trauma and executive function skills. Her training background includes the Beck Institute where she became a Beck Institute Certified Clinician (BI-CBT), a rare designation and one of fourteen certified providers in New York State. Jennifer is a Diplomate from the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies (A-CBT), certified in Trial Based Cognitive Therapy (TBCT) after training with Dr. Irismar Reis de Oliveira MD, PhD and certified in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I). Jennifer is one of 57 ADHD-Certified Clinical Services Provider (ADHD-CCSP) in New York State and a Level 2 certified provider from The Gottman Institute. Other continuing training was completed at the Ellis Institute of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, The Feeling Good Institute with David Burns, and in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Jennifer also incorporates emotional regulation skills and has a background in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) with training from Marsha Linehan, the creator of DBT.
Jennifer sees clients in person in New York City in the heart of the Flatiron/Union Square and is licensed and works virtually with clients located in MA, CT, CT and FL.
Jennifer has Bachelor of Arts in psychology and government from Franklin and Marshall College. Outside of practicing therapy and running a practice, she resides in Brooklyn, enjoys a good workout and playing with her dog, Bear. She drinks too much coffee and not enough water (life goal).