Valeria Grishko

I currently have availability in my practice.  

My hours are fairly flexible, and I offer sessions online at the moment.  

I also offer a 30 mins free Zoom consultation to allow me and you to see if we would work well together. 

I am fully licensed as a LCSW in NY state, which makes me eligible for out-of-network insurance reimbursements.

My expertise gained through 24 years of practice coupled with life and professional experiences in Ukraine, United States, United Kingdom, France and Israel, offers a unique outlook at life’s challenges, especially when you are living not in the country of your birth. My fluency in French, English, Ukrainian and Russian and deeper understanding of cultural adaptation and growth that can happen in moving abroad offer a different dimension of understanding and insight to your therapy with me.

My areas of specialty are:

• Grief, loss and bereavement (trained by David Kessler, in addition of my years of experience in this area)

• Trauma and trauma-informed therapy with adults and children, including sexual abuse and domestic violence

• Adjustment to immigration and identity formation for children, adolescents and adults

• Child psychotherapy/parenting and family work.

• Relational difficulties

• Mood disorders

When dealing with life changing or traumatic experience or any situations where you lived through strong emotions, sometimes talking is not enough. An integrated approach that helps the body to process what happened on the somatic level is often needed. I am a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP), which means that I have additional training in the most current approaches to working with trauma, such as Somatic Experiencing, EMDR and IFS. I am also trained in IST (Immediate Stabilization Technique) that helps people to process traumatic events.

Usually I spend the first session learning about you, the reasons that brought you to seek help at this time and how I would be able to help you.  Your level of comfort is important to me, so if this format of the first session feels overwhelming, I would be open to take our time with this process.  

Depending on your concerns I could offer you to complete some scales that might help us see the extent of the discomfor that your concerns are causing you.  It is always your choice to complete it or not.