Deborah Schnitzer , LCSW

Deborah Schnitzer is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in New York with 21 years of practice. She works with adults on concerns including relationships, family issues, trauma and abuse, parenting stress, coping with life changes, anxiety, grief, intimacy issues, anger, and mood conditions such as depression and bipolar disorder.

She keeps sessions straightforward and practical. Deborah offers tools and skills rather than quick fixes. She teaches strategies clients can use outside the session to manage strong feelings, improve communication, and handle stressful situations at home and work.

Her approach blends several well-known methods. Deborah uses attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns and emotionally-focused techniques to address closeness and connection. She also draws on cognitive behavioral tools to shift unhelpful thoughts and dialectical behavior methods for emotion regulation and distress tolerance.

Deborah emphasizes respect, honesty, and a nonjudgmental tone in her work. She asks clients to be the experts of their own lives and collaborates with them on practical steps. Sessions often focus on learning specific skills, trying them between meetings, and reviewing what worked.

Her background includes teaching at graduate and undergraduate levels, and more than two decades of direct clinical work. That experience informs a steady, skill-focused style aimed at helping people reduce reactivity, repair relationships, and build clearer patterns of behavior over time.

How Deborah’s approaches work for online sessions