Hillary Freidman, LAPC (she/her) 

Hillary is a Licensed Associate Professional Counselor (LAPC) with a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from Chatham University. She started her counseling/psychotherapy career helping adolescents and college students cope with and manage mood disorders, depression, anxiety, and suicidality in OP and IOP settings. 

Hillary focuses on empowering all elements of the family system and providing collaborative and coordinated care for parents and families when working with children ages 8 and up. With adolescents and young adults, Hillary favors a strength-based, relational- and solution-focused approach that is neuro-affirming. She provides person-centered treatment that attends to the domains of human (life-cycle) development and emotional, relational, social, educational, and identity-based problems. She utilizes Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT),  Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), and Mindfulness skills. 

Hillary specializes in working with children and adolescents presenting with struggles related to mood disorders, emotion regulation, depression and suicidality, anxiety, self-harm, peer relationships and social skill deficits, parent-child conflict, and difficulties with executive functioning. 

Developing emotion regulation, distress tolerance, relationship building, and communication skills are actionable pathways to improving one’s life and restoring one’s potential for happiness and overall well-being. Hillary believes that therapy can be a place to deepen one’s understanding of self and identity, develop healthier coping strategies, and discover new feelings of success and achievement, both in the long term and the short term.