Justine Gottlieb

Justine Gottlieb is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW-R) based in New York. She brings two decades of experience helping adults navigate stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. Her approach is grounded in listening, practical coping tools, and building on strengths. She uses a wellness-oriented, strengths-based style that centers the person's own resources. Sessions include attentive listening, gentle exploration of family and personal history, and straightforward suggestions to manage symptoms. Motivational Interviewing is used to help people find motivation for change and set realistic goals. Psychodynamic Therapy informs her work by looking at patterns that repeat from earlier relationships and family of origin issues. This can help people understand why they react to certain situations and discover different ways to respond. She offers approaches that address anger, intimacy-related issues, grief, and the stress of life transitions. Justine has worked with parents and young adults on parenting challenges, fatherhood concerns, communication problems, and family conflict. She also supports people dealing with aging and geriatric issues, feelings of emptiness, and sexuality or women’s issues. Her work includes practical strategies as well as reflection about deeper patterns. She invites people to talk through their concerns and to set goals together. To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling are used to connect with her practice. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How these approaches shape online work

Justine uses Motivational Interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change and to set manageable goals; this approach focuses on collaboration and building motivation step by step. Psychodynamic Therapy helps identify recurring patterns that come from family of origin and past relationships, offering a way to understand responses to anger, intimacy, and grief.

Deciding which approach to use is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to match methods to a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. Conversations in early sessions focus on what feels most useful and what practical steps fit a person’s life.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when time is limited, and reduce travel time. Licensed professionals can adapt Motivational Interviewing and psychodynamic work to remote sessions while focusing on clear goals, emotional awareness, and manageable coping strategies.