Maya Handwerk , LCSW

Maya Handwerk is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in New York with more than 15 years of experience delivering direct advocacy and clinical services across education, legal, and community settings. She focuses on supporting families and children in crisis, including work with emotionally disturbed children, and has collaborated with psychiatrists in the treatment of anxiety disorders. Her practice addresses a broad range of concerns such as stress, anxiety, relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, parenting and grief, anger and career challenges, as well as mood conditions including bipolar disorder and depression.

Maya integrates evidence-based methods into her work, drawing on Cognitive Behavioral techniques, supportive and client-centered approaches, and solution-focused strategies to help clients develop practical coping skills and healthier patterns of relating. She emphasizes cultural competence, particularly in working with African American clients and people from the Caribbean Islands, and brings experience with adoption and foster care matters, attachment and blended family issues, divorce and separation, and other life transitions. As a clinician who values collaboration, Maya aims to help clients move toward greater emotional wellbeing and functional resilience through tailored, strengths-based interventions.