- Years in practice
- 20
- Credentials
- LCSW-R
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Parenting issues
About Justine
Justine Gottlieb is a licensed clinical social worker who brings two decades of experience to conversations about stress, parenting, and relationship concerns. She uses a calm, strengths-focused style to help people sort through anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Her tone is practical and warm, aimed at parents and adults seeking clear ideas they can try between sessions.
She draws on Motivational Interviewing to support motivation and small behavior changes. She also uses psychodynamic ideas to help people understand patterns that repeat across relationships and life stages.
Background and approach
Those approaches guide gentle reflection alongside concrete steps to reduce distress. Many clients come with parenting strain, family conflict, or questions about intimacy and communication. Justine offers straightforward strategies for everyday challenges like managing anger, coping with grief, and improving self esteem.
She also supports people facing changes tied to aging, fatherhood, or young-adult transitions. Sessions are shaped to match each person’s needs. Conversations can include problem-solving, skill-building, and looking back at how past experiences affect present behavior.
The goal is practical improvement you can notice week to week. Justine holds an LCSW-R credential in New York. She practices in English and has spent twenty years working with adults facing common life stresses.
If you want a therapist who balances insight with usable tools, she offers that combination in a steady, approachable way.
What Justine works with
Everything Justine lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Justine helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Coping with life changes
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Communication problems
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Justine lists
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Justine integrates Motivational Interviewing and psychodynamic ideas into online work to help people make meaningful changes. Motivational Interviewing focuses on helping someone find their own reasons for change and build small, achievable goals; it is useful for starting new habits or reducing behaviors that cause stress. Psychodynamic therapy looks at patterns that repeat across relationships and life stages, helping people recognize how past experiences shape current reactions and choices.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist and client will collaborate to identify which methods fit a person's goals, preferences, and current situation. Sessions can shift over time from motivation and skill-building to deeper reflection as needs evolve.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video allows fuller conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and changing routines.
Questions people ask about Justine
What kinds of problems can be addressed?
Common concerns include stress, anxiety, depression, parenting strain, family conflict, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and grief, anger, and coping with life changes.
What is the therapy style like?
Therapy combines Motivational Interviewing to build motivation for change and psychodynamic ideas to understand repeating relationship patterns. Sessions balance reflection with practical steps to try between meetings.
How much experience does this clinician have?
Justine Gottlieb has twenty years of experience working with adults on issues such as parenting concerns, family problems, mood changes, and relationship difficulties.
Where is the therapist licensed and located?
She is a licensed clinical social worker, LCSW-R, practicing in New York.
In which languages are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Work can be done via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on the person's needs and schedule.
How does pricing and payment work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working together?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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