Moving Beyond the Surface in Psychotherapy: Why I Treat the Root Causes of Distress and Not Just the Symptoms

When people first walk through the door of my Greenwich Village psychotherapy private practice, they are often seeking immediate relief from a specific, exhausting symptom. They might be struggling with a relentless cycle of worry, grief, complex trauma, relationship issues, career issues or overwhelming stress.

Healing requires looking beneath symptoms to the root cause.
Trauma Specialist Josephine Ferraro, LCSW in Greenwich Village, NYC (10011).

It is completely natural to want these symptoms to simply vanish. They are uncomfortable, disruptive, and draining. 

However, in my over 25 years as an NYC psychotherapist, I have learned that treating a symptom without exploring its origin is like cutting the top off a weed while leaving the root intact—it is only a matter of time before it resurfaces.

Symptoms are not the enemy. In reality, they are a form of communication. They are the clever, adaptive ways your mind and body have learned to protect you from deeper, unresolved pain or unresolved trauma.

Healing With the Mind-Body Connection

When you experience chronic anxiety, a sudden mood drop, or an emotional boundary issue in a relationship, your nervous system is playing a recording of a past survival strategy. At some point in your life, that specific stress response kept you safe. Today, however, that same response might be keeping you stuck.

If we only focus on changing your surface-level thoughts or managing your immediate behavior, we miss the deeper narrative. 

True transformation happens when we shift our focus from "What is wrong with me?" to "What happened to me, and where is it still held in my mind and body?"

To achieve lasting healing, my psychotherapy practice incorporates deep, experiential mind-body approaches.

How Experiential Psychotherapy Reaches the Root

To heal the root causes of psychological and relational distress, we must access the parts of the mind and the body where trauma and stress responses are actually stored. 

Here is how I use an integrated, experiential approach to help you heal from the inside out:

• Calming the Stress Response: Through EMDR therapy, we use bilateral stimulation to help your brain to heal stuck traumatic memories. 
• Releasing Trapped Survival Energy: Using Somatic Experiencing, we shift our attention to the physical sensations in your body. This mind-body approach gently releases the fight, flight, or freeze energy that has been locked in your nervous system, resolving chronic physical tension and nervous anxiety.
• Healing the Wounded Core: Through IFS Parts Work, we look at your symptoms as protective "parts" of your personality. Instead of fighting an anxious or defensive part of yourself, we approach it with curiosity and compassion. This uncovers the wounded core beneath the defense, leading to profound inner harmony.
• Processing Emotions in Real-Time: Using AEDP therapy, we don't just talk about your history in a detached way. We actively track and process difficult emotional experiences in the safety of our here-and-now therapeutic relationship, allowing for rapid, deep emotional healing.

Healing For a More Fulfilling Life

By resolving the underlying trauma, your current symptoms will eventually lose their power over you. You can step out of old survival patterns and finally experience the deep, meaningful transformation you deserve.

👤 Josephine Ferraro, LCSW - NYC Psychotherapist and Trauma Specialist
I am a licensed New York City psychotherapist and trauma therapist with over 25 years of clinical experience. 

I see individual adults and people in relationships in my psychotherapy private practice located at 412 Avenue of the Americas (6th Avenue), Greenwich Village, Manhattan New York, NY 10011. 

I offer a complimentary 15 minute phone call before setting up an initial appointment. 

My approach is experiential and I have advanced skills in:

• EMDR Therapy: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing helps the brain reprocess traumatic, stuck memories using bilateral stimulation, reducing the emotional distress and bodily anxiety associated with past events.

• Somatic Experiencing Therapy: A mind-body oriented therapeutic approach that helps release the stress and trauma locked in the nervous system, allowing you to move past chronic states of fight, flight, or freeze.

• IFS Parts Work Therapy: Internal Family Systems helps you explore and heal different internal "parts" of your personality—such as defensive, anxious, or wounded parts—to cultivate self-compassion and inner harmony.

• AEDP Therapy: Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy focuses on processing difficult emotional experiences in real-time alongside a supportive therapist, fostering rapid healing through deep emotional connection.

• Clinical Hypnosis (Hypnotherapy): A therapeutic technique that uses guided relaxation and focused attention to access the subconscious mind, helping to uncover deep-seated patterns and reinforce positive behavioral changes.

In addition, I am an Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist (EFT) and Certified Sex Therapist.

Contact Me
To explore more or to make an appointment, contact me:

🌐 Visit My Website: Josephine Ferraro, LCSW - NYC Psychotherapist

✉️ Email: josephineferraro@iCloud.com

📞 Call: (917) 742-2624 (during standard business hours)

Understanding Transactional Relationships

In my psychotherapy private practice in Greenwich Village, I frequently work with individuals and people in relationships who feel disconnected, exhausted, or deeply hurt by conditional dynamics in their personal and professional lives. In an earlier article, I discussed the foundational elements of these dynamics (see my article: What Are Transactional Relationships?).

Learn to develop healthy relationships through psychotherapy with Josephine Ferraro, LCSW, Greenwich Village, NYC  (10011).

To deepen this understanding, it is helpful to look at how these behaviors manifest in everyday interactions.

Vignettes About Transactional Behavior

The following vignettes are composites of many different cases from my clinical experience. They illustrate how an underlying transactional motivation erodes trust and fuels an unsettling undercurrent of discomfort for the person on the receiving end.

Ron: A Transactional Coworker

Ron, a senior salesperson, tends to perform seemingly kind and helpful favors for new female employees. Initially, these colleagues see him as a "nice guy" who goes out of his way to help them acclimate to the office.

However, within a relatively short period, these women realize his kindness is merely performative. His real motivation is to ingratiate himself with them to eventually pressure them into sexual relationships. His usual pattern is to offer assistance, build a baseline of trust, and then attempt a seduction over drinks. Eventually, after several women reported this behavior to the human resources department, Ron was terminated.

Ann: A Transactional Friend

Ann felt little need for close, authentic friendships. Instead, she viewed potential friends strictly through a financial lens, calculating how she could benefit monetarily from the connection. When she met Alice, who owned a successful consulting firm, Ann saw an immediate opportunity. She hoped that by becoming Alice's friend, she could promote her own accounting business.

Initially, Ann was exceedingly attentive. She ingratiated herself by inviting Alice to dinner and buying her small gifts. Alice assumed the warmth was genuine. However, once Ann explicitly asked Alice to hire her accounting firm, the dynamic shifted. Alice explained that she already had a trusted, long-term accounting company for her business. Ann immediately dropped the friendship and cut off all communication. When Alice realized the friendship was entirely conditional, she was left with a painful cycle of resentment.

Ed: A Transactional Date

During the first few weeks of dating Lena, Ed took her out to expensive Manhattan restaurants and bought what appeared to be highly thoughtful gifts. When he drove Lena home from their third date, Ed stated that he thought it was time they spent the night together. Lena replied that she was not yet ready to be intimate and wanted to get to know him better first.

At that point, Ed lost his temper. He blurted out that he had calculated spending more than $700 on her and felt he deserved sex in return. Lena was shocked; she had never seen this angry, calculating side of his personality and immediately recoiled. Trying to recover his composure and protect his "nice guy" image, Ed claimed he was under intense stress and had simply misspoke. But the damage was done. Lena recognized the behavior as highly calculated and cut off all contact.

What is Transactional Behavior?

When I explore these dynamics with clients in my Manhattan office, we break transactional behavior down into several distinct clinical characteristics:

• A Means to an End: Seemingly kind behavior is utilized as a tactical maneuver to achieve a specific goal, whether that goal is a business sale, social status or sexual access.
• Conditional Kindness: The warmth is entirely dependent on an anticipated return. If the other person does not respond precisely as expected, the transactional individual quickly moves on to a new target, leaving a wake of resentment behind them.
• Unexpressed Scorekeeping: Unlike authentic, altruistic interactions, transactional behavior relies heavily on a mental ledger. The individual keeps strict score of what they have given versus what they expect to receive.
• A Shifting Focus: The focus remains entirely on what is being extracted from the interaction rather than what is being shared. The giving is merely an investment withthe hope of a larger personal payout.

Healthy vs. Unhealthy Transactionalism

• Healthy Transactionalism: In a professional setting where boundaries and expectations are clear, transactionalism is normal and healthy. For example, employees understand they need to perform well and remain respectful to a supervisor who provides their salary and performance reviews. There is no manipulation or hidden agenda in this context.
• Unhealthy Transactionalism: When conditional exchanges infiltrate personal partnerships, it becomes an unhealthy stress response. The transactional partner has little to no genuine emotional investment. Because their motivation is entirely self-serving, it leaves the other partner feeling used, invisible, and isolated.

How to Distinguish Genuine Reciprocity From Transactionalism

Genuine reciprocity is the lifeblood of psychological safety and relational health. While healthy relationships naturally involve a fluid give-and-take, unhealthy transactional relationships trap partners in rigid, conditional scorekeeping.

Healthy relationships are built upon:

• Genuine connection that values the person for who they are, not what they provide.
• Open communication where needs are expressed directly rather than manipulated.
• Mutual generosity that flows freely without strings attached.
• Genuine trust developed through consistent, honest behavior over time.
• Clear boundaries that protect both individuals from exploitation.
• An investment of time and energy focused entirely on connection, with no hidden agenda.

Transactional Relationships and Healing through Couples Psychotherapy

Many individuals are raised in environments where love and attention were strictly transactional, leading them to repeat these patterns in adulthood. With professional help and sincere motivation, these habits can be unlearned.

If you and your partner find yourselves stuck in a rigid cycle of scorekeeping, you can benefit deeply from couples psychotherapy. 

In my Greenwich Village practice, I work with couples to identify and change these defensive barriers. 

A skilled couples therapist helps both partners develop the emotional safety, inner awareness, and communication skills required to cultivate true intimacy. 

Rather than struggling alone, reaching out for professional support can help you develop a deeply fulfilling, reciprocal relationship.

👤 Josephine Ferraro, LCSW - NYC Psychotherapist and Trauma Specialist
I am a licensed New York City psychotherapist and trauma therapist with over 25 years of clinical experience. 

I see individual adults and people in relationships in my psychotherapy private practice located at 412 Avenue of the Americas (6th Avenue), Greenwich Village, Manhattan New York, NY 10011.

 I offer a complimentary 15 minute phone call before setting up an initial appointment. 

My approach is experiential with advanced skills in:

• EMDR Therapy: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing helps the brain reprocess traumatic, stuck memories using bilateral stimulation, reducing the emotional distress and bodily anxiety associated with past events.

• Somatic Experiencing Therapy: A mind-body oriented therapeutic approach that helps release the stress and trauma locked in the nervous system, allowing you to move past chronic states of fight, flight, or freeze.

• IFS Parts Work Therapy: Internal Family Systems helps you explore and heal different internal "parts" of your personality—such as defensive, anxious, or wounded parts—to cultivate self-compassion and inner harmony.

• AEDP Therapy: Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy focuses on processing difficult emotional experiences in real-time alongside a supportive therapist, fostering rapid healing through deep emotional connection.

• Clinical Hypnosis (Hypnotherapy): A therapeutic technique that uses guided relaxation and focused attention to access the unconscious mind, helping to uncover deep-seated patterns and reinforce positive behavioral changes.

In addition, I am an Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist (EFT) and Certified Sex Therapist.

Contact Me
To explore more or to make an appointment, contact me: 

🌐 Visit My Website: Josephine Ferraro, LCSW - NYC Psychotherapist

✉️ Email: josephineferraro@iCloud.com

📞 Call: (917) 742-2624 (during standard business hours)

Developing Skills for Emotional Regulation: Somatic Tools to Manage Intense Feelings

If you grew up in an environment where it was unsafe or difficult to express yourself, you may have never learned how to effectively navigate your inner landscape. Fortunately, the nervous system is highly adaptable. 

An abstract water illustration reflecting the physiological waves of emotional regulation—a somatic process supported with advanced experiential therapy by Josephine Ferraro, LCSW Greenwich Village, NYC (10011) Trauma Specialist

With patience, practice, and the right somatic tools, you can cultivate sustainable emotional regulation skills to replace old, automated survival patterns (see my article: Fear of Abandonment and Insecure Attachment Styles: How Trauma Impacts Relationships).

Managing your feelings is not about minimizing or pushing them away (see my article: How to Manage Your Emotions Without Suppressing Them). Instead, true self-regulation involves expanding your nervous system's capacity to tolerate physical and emotional states without becoming overwhelmed or shutting down.

Five Somatic Skills to Cultivate Emotional Regulation

The following somatic and behavioral skills can help you safely navigate intense feelings, moving you from automated reactivity to conscious, grounded choice:

1. Practice Pausing and Conscious Breathing

Emotions can flood the nervous system in a fraction of a second. While you cannot choose or prevent the initial wave of an emotion, you can absolutely choose how you respond to it. When an emotional trigger occurs, practice pausing and taking a deep, intentional breath before saying a word or taking action. This brief pause creates a critical psychological buffer, shifting your brain out of an immediate threat response and giving you the space to consider a deliberate response (see my article: Learning to Relax: Square Breathing).

2. Notice Somatic Sensations in the Body

Emotions are fundamentally physiological events that occur within the body before they ever reach our conscious thoughts. When an intense feeling arises, shift your attention away from the cognitive thought loop and track what is happening physically:

• Is your jaw tight, or are your hands clenched into fists? This somatic bracing often signals underlying anger.
• Do you feel a heavy constriction, tightness, or a welling up in your throat? This physical pressure frequently points to unexpressed sadness or grief.

3. Mindfully Stay with the Physical Sensations

If you have a history of tuning out your body to stay safe, identifying what you feel can take time. If you slow down, practice patience, and simply sit with the raw physical sensations without judging them, the underlying emotion will eventually become clear. This somatic tracking is a foundational step in reconnecting with yourself (see my article:  Experiential Therapy and the Mind-Body Connection: The Body Offers a Pathway Into the Unconscious Mind).

4. Acknowledge Your Emotional State

Whatever emotion you are experiencing in the moment, acknowledge its presence. Acknowledging a feeling does not mean you like it, condone it, or want to feel that way forever. It simply means you are practicing radical self-acceptance by recognizing, "This is what my nervous system is experiencing right now" (see my article: Learning to Feel Your Emotions).

5. Make a Conscious Choice to Respond

Reacting is an automated, defensive reflex driven by a hijacked nervous system. In contrast, responding is an empowered, conscious choice. When your feelings are incredibly intense, making a calm choice right away may not be possible. You may need to pause and practice several rounds of conscious breathing until your nervous system down-regulates to a safer, more grounded baseline before you address the external situation (see my article: Responding Instead of Reacting).

Moving Deeper: The Role of Experiential Therapy

Building these day-to-day skills is an incredible foundation for emotional well-being. However, if you find yourself continually overwhelmed by intense emotional floods or stuck in chronic numbness, there may be deeper, unresolved trauma driving your nervous system's reactivity. In my next article, I will share how specialized, body-centered Experiential Therapy can help you process these core wounds to build lasting emotional freedom.

About Josephine Ferraro, LCSW

I am a licensed New York psychotherapist and advanced trauma specialist based in New York City.

Over the years, I have helped many individual adults and people in relationships safely navigate, process, and heal from psychological trauma.

My practice integrates cutting-edge, evidence-based somatic and experiential modalities, including:

• Somatic Experiencing (SE): A body-oriented approach designed to safely release unresolved survival stress and regulate a dysregulated nervous system.
• EMDR Therapy: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing utilizes bilateral stimulation to help the brain reprocess and neutralize distressing traumatic memories.
• Internal Family Systems (IFS) Parts Work Therapy: A gentle, compassionate modality that helps individuals identify, understand, and harmonize different internal "parts" of their personality to heal core emotional wounds.
• AEDP: Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy focuses on processing difficult emotional experiences within a deeply supportive, real-time therapeutic relationship to foster rapid healing.
• Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for Couples: A structured, attachment-based framework that helps partners identify negative cycles, rebuild secure emotional bonds, and deepen intimacy.
• Hypnotherapy: A clinical modality that utilizes focused relaxation and heightened awareness to access the unconscious mind and reframe deep-seated psychological patterns.
• Sex Therapy for Individuals and People in Relationships: A specialized, nonjudgmental, sex-positive approach addressing the psychological, somatic, and relational factors affecting sexual health, intimacy, and expression across diverse relationship structures.

Contact Information

• I see individual adults and couples in person in my Greenwich Village office, New York, NY 10011.
• I also offer online therapy for clients throughout New York State.
• I offer a free 15-minute introductory phone call before scheduling your initial appointment.
• 🌐 Website: Josephine Ferraro, LCSW - NYC Psychotherapist
• ✉️ Email: josephineferraro@iCloud.com
• 📞 Phone: (917) 742-2624 during standard business hours.

Experiential Therapy vs. Traditional Talk Therapy: Why Experiential Psychotherapy is More Effective for Trauma Recovery

Introduction: Shifting the Paradigm in Trauma Therapy

For individuals seeking trauma recovery, choosing the right therapeutic modality is critical. In the past, psychodynamic talk therapy and cognitive approaches were the gold standards of care. However, modern clinical neuroscience reveals that resolving deep-seated psychological trauma and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) requires moving beyond intellectual insight (see my article: What is the Difference Between PTSD and Trauma?).

A contemplative double-exposure portrait reflecting the layered nature of posttraumatic healing. Josephine Ferraro, LCSW — Greenwich Village, Manhattan, NYC (10011).

While traditional talk therapy relies primarily on cognitive insight, experiential psychotherapy engages the mind-body connection to achieve lasting emotional breakthroughs. By combining contemporary relational concepts with experiential modalities, we can target trauma where it lives: in the nervous system and the unconscious mind.

My Background as a Trauma Therapist in NYC

As I have shared in prior articles and in my biographical information for this blog, my original training from 30 years ago was rooted deeply in psychoanalysis. After completing graduate school, I was a psychoanalytic candidate in training, utilizing psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis to treat a diverse range of clients at the institute's clinical center, including individuals carrying severe psychological trauma.

While I valued my intensive training and continue to apply contemporary Relational Psychoanalytic concepts—especially Winnicottian frameworks—my years of clinical practice revealed a vital truth: traditional talk therapy by itself is usually not effective in helping traumatized clients fully overcome their symptoms when compared to experiential psychotherapy. 

In those early years of my psychoanalytic training, it was frustrating to see clients develop immense intellectual insight into their problems—which is an important first step—without experiencing any real relief from their posttraumatic symptoms. 

Many clients reported "feeling better" due to the strong therapeutic alliance, especially since clients met multiple times per week back then. Yet, I remained unsatisfied because most trauma survivors were not experiencing a deep, structural, somatic shift in their day-to-day lives.

As the mental health field rapidly evolved, I sought out more effective, evidence-based treatments for PTSD and trauma resolution. That search led me to Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).

Since my initial EMDR training in 2005, I have utilized this modality regularly and I have watched clients overcome debilitating traumatic symptoms significantly faster than those utilizing talk therapy alone, achieving results that stood the test of time. However, EMDR therapy isn't for everyone and usually works best for single-incident trauma.

Fascinated by these outcomes, I pursued advanced training in other powerful experiential modalities, including clinical hypnosis, Somatic Experiencing (SE), IFS Parts Work Therapy and AEDP (see descriptions for all of these modalities towards the end of this article). 

These therapy modalities have been invaluable in helping traumatized individuals process unresolved trauma.

Today, I practice as an integrationist, blending these experiential therapies dynamically to meet the unique psychological needs of each client.

8 Reasons Experiential Psychotherapy Outperforms Traditional Talk Therapy

When evaluating why experiential psychotherapy is more effective than traditional talk therapy for trauma recovery, several clinical and neurobiological factors stand out:

• Direct Access to the Unconscious Mind and Limbic System: Talk therapy operates primarily from the prefrontal cortex, helping clients develop cognitive insight. In contrast, experiential therapy engages the mind-body connection. This bottom-up experiential approach to processing allows clients to experience their emotions physically and emotionally, providing a direct gateway to subcortical brain structures and the unconscious mind (see my article: How Experiential Therapy Offers a Pathway Into the Unconscious Mind).
• Bypassing Cognitive Intellectualization: Many trauma survivors become experts at staying "in their heads." Clients who have undergone extensive talk therapy often know the psychological lingo and can explain their history, yet remain completely disconnected from their somatic and emotional reality. Experiential therapy focuses heavily on the client’s embodied experience, enabling a true integration of intellectual awareness, emotional and physical processing.
• Slowing Down to Track the Somatic "Felt Sense": In standard talk therapy, it is easy for clients to gloss over painful emotions by rapidly speaking or intellectualizing their pain. Experiential psychotherapy intentionally slows the clinical pacing. This allows clients to track the physical "felt sense" of their emotions, unlocking deep psychological connections and memory reconsolidation that talking alone cannot touch (see my article: What is the Felt Sense in Experiential Therapy?).
• A Compassionate, Nonjudgmental, and Strengths-Based Framework: Certain traditional paradigms can inadvertently pathologize a client's defense mechanisms.  Experiential psychotherapy is inherently nonjudgmental, viewing symptoms as adaptive survival strategies. Operating from a strengths-based perspective, it helps clients safely explore internal experiences in a fully integrated, mind-body oriented way.
• A Focus on Root-Cause Nervous System Healing: Talk therapy often plateaus at intellectual self-awareness. Experiential psychotherapy focuses fundamentally on profound nervous system regulation and emotional resolution, moving clients past the point of simply understanding their trauma toward releasing it.
• Equipping Clients with Autonomous Self-Regulation Tools: Experiential modalities provide clients with somatic and emotional regulation skills they can use during sessions as well as independently outside the session. It shifts the therapeutic dynamic away from a passive reliance on the therapist's insights and toward autonomous personal empowerment.
• Moving Beyond the Rehearsed Trauma Narrative: Clients who have been in therapy for years frequently develop a fixed "story" or narrative about their trauma. They often repeat the same narrative to every new professional they encounter, which can keep them stuck in the past. Experiential psychotherapy expands the client's experience so they can drop into the present moment and experience their shifting, transforming sense of self on a profound, visceral level.
• Lasting Emotional Breakthroughs: Because experiential techniques like IFS, EMDR, AEDP and Somatic Experiencing target the subcortical structures where traumatic memories are stored, they facilitate deep transformational breakthroughs in a more timely and permanent manner than traditional talk therapy. However, experiential therapy is not a "quick fix", especially if there has been significant trauma.

Seeking Trauma Therapy in New York

If you have been struggling with the lingering, painful aftermath of psychological trauma, you could benefit from working with a licensed mental health professional who has specialized skills in experiential therapy.

The initial step toward recovery is scheduling a first session. During this meeting, you can interview the therapist regarding their specific clinical background, advanced training and skills as well as their particular approach to treating your unique issues.

Experiential psychotherapy safely unburdens you from the weight of your past, empowering you to live a more grounded, meaningful, and deeply fulfilling life.

About Josephine Ferraro, LCSW

I am a licensed New York psychotherapist and advanced trauma specialist based in New York City. 

Over the years, I have helped many individual adults and people in relationships safely navigate, process, and heal from psychological trauma. 

My practice integrates cutting-edge, evidence-based somatic and experiential modalities, including:

• Somatic Experiencing (SE): A body-oriented approach designed to safely release unresolved survival stress and regulate a dysregulated nervous system.
• EMDR Therapy: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing utilizes bilateral stimulation to help the brain reprocess and neutralize distressing traumatic memories.
• Internal Family Systems (IFS) Parts Work Therapy: A gentle, compassionate modality that helps individuals identify, understand, and harmonize different internal "parts" of their personality to heal core emotional wounds.
• AEDP: Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy focuses on processing difficult emotional experiences within a deeply supportive, real-time therapeutic relationship to foster rapid healing.
• Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for Couples: A structured, attachment-based framework that helps partners identify negative cycles, rebuild secure emotional bonds, and deepen intimacy.
• Hypnotherapy: A clinical modality that utilizes focused relaxation and heightened awareness to access the unconscious mind and reframe deep-seated psychological patterns.
• Sex Therapy for Individuals and People in Relationships: A specialized, nonjudgmental, sex-positive approach addressing the psychological, somatic, and relational factors affecting sexual health, intimacy, and expression across diverse relationship structures.

Contact Information

I see individual adults and couples in person in my Greenwich Village office, New York, NY 10011.

I also offer online therapy for clients throughout New York State.

I offer a free 15-minute introductory phone call before scheduling your initial appointment.

• Website: Josephine Ferraro, LCSW - NYC Psychotherapist
• Email: josephineferraro@iCloud.com
• Phone: (917) 742-2624 during standard business hours.