Emma Galvin (she/her) is a trained social worker and psychotherapist as well as a committed activist, artist, and changemaker. She believes that therapy can be supportive, collaborative, and transformative.

About

Emma uses an integrated style that pulls from anti-racist and feminist frameworks and incorporates psychodynamic, narrative, and relational lenses as well as DBT and mindfulness practices. She holds the identities of being a queer, Jewish woman and an artist as part of her positionality and approaches the work with a nonjudgmental stance. She brings a spontaneity, curiosity, and creative spirit that lends itself to the sticky and complicated parts of what it is to be human. She believes deeply in the revelatory process of therapy - a disentanglement and an unmasking.

A native New Yorker, Emma worked as an actor and voice-over artist for a decade before entering the field of social work. She holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and an MSW from Smith College School of Social Work. Her clinical experience includes youth education and mentoring, sex education, suicide prevention, and crisis intervention. She has completed clinical placements at the AIM 1 Charter High School in New York and at the Vassar College Counseling Center. Emma was also a Post-Graduate Fellow at the Amherst College Center for Mental Health, where she provided direct clinical services and clinical intervention to undergraduate students in addition to co-facilitating workshops on anxiety, homesickness, and belonging.

Emma specializes in working with college students and emerging adults, artists and those working in creative fields, and members of the LGBTQ+ community. Her work in private practice is supervised by Charlotte Curtis, LCSW.

In-person and remote options

My office is in the Financial District, steps away from Fulton Center (A, C, J, Z, 2, 3, 4, and 5 trains).