Debby Rubenfeld, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
My practice offers psychotherapy with warmth. Whether you come as an individual or as a couple or family member, this work can improve your mental clarity and help to move you out of reactive states.
I like to describe my style as active and caring. Ongoing training in EMDR, and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy combines well with my years of more traditional experience as an emotionally focused, Psychodynamic Psychotherapist. Education and clinical experience prepare me well to address a wide variety of personal and relational problems. The field of psychotherapy is expanding vastly. Psychotherapists are less theoretically divided now, thanks to an abundance of more recent research on the brain and the biology of emotion. Consistent with this research, psychotherapists can now borrow more freely from various methodologies to create effective techniques for helping our clients. I like to stay current and up to date in my field. Please call or write with questions.
Education:
- New York University, New York City, B.S. in Psychology 1979
- Catholic University of America, Washington DC, M.S.W. 1988
- Washington School of Psychiatry, Washington DC, Short Term Intensive Dynamic Psychotherapy Graduate Certificate, 2007
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Level I Training, 2014.
- EMDR Psychotherapy, Levels I and II Trainings, 2014.
Numerous Workshops and Lectures Attended:
- Psychopharmacology
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Attachment Theory
- Self-Psychology
- Ego Psychology
- Group Psychotherapy
- Family Therapy Systems
- Crisis Intervention
- Mindfulness and The Body in Psychotherapy
Professional Experience:
- Established OngoingPrivate Practice in 1982
- Contracted Group and Family Psychotherapist for Dominion Hospital in Falls Church, VA, 1997-1999
- Contracted 2001 Crisis Interventionist at Deloitte & Touche, 2001
- Contracted Employee Assistance Provider since 2011
Professional Affiliations:
- Greater Washington Society for Clinical Social Work
- National Association of Social Workers
- Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute
- EMDR National Association
Areas of Specialty:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Relationships,
- Parent Counseling
- Trauma/Abuse
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorders
- Family Conflict
- Loss and Grief