Denise Ahlgrim*
LCSW
Ms. Ahlgrim is an experienced Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who will begin providing teletherapy services to Therapy Center of New York’s clients in Winter 2025.
Denise Ahlgrim is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who provides teletherapy services for adults and children at Therapy Center of New York. Her extensive career has involved both clinical and educational settings. Denise has experience working with anxiety, depression, loss, grief, parenting, trauma, women’s issues, family dynamics, developmental delays, child development and major life transitions. She has also worked with families in the Early Intervention System, CPSE and CSE system.
Denise prioritizes creating a safe, supportive and comfortable space and rapport with her clients. She utilizes a strengths-based perspective, a whole person perspective, and a trauma-informed framework. When working with clients, Denise uses a combination of reflective, affirming, educational, skills building, solution focused and mindfulness approaches based in CBT and systems theory. She looks at the impact of relationships with both people and the environments we live and work within.
Overall, Denise works to help clients express themselves, share their stories, make connections, identify strengths and needs, and to achieve deeper understandings of their thoughts, emotions, actions and experiences. She offers compassion and empowerment to inspire healing and self reflection, support to begin new and healthy behavior changes, and compassion to validate her clients' courageous steps toward stronger emotional health and well being.
*Health insurance enrollments & credentialing currently in process.
EDUCATION
- Master of Eduction in Community Counseling, Eastern Illinois University
- Masters in Social Work, Stony Brook University