Shana Maltzman, LCSW-R, LCSW

Shana Maltzman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience. She holds NY LCSW-R and NJ LCSW credentials and practices in New Jersey. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, self-esteem struggles, relationship and family concerns, and life transitions.

Shana uses straightforward conversations and practical tools to identify unhelpful thoughts and habits. She often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice thought patterns and try different responses. She also works from client-centered, narrative, motivational interviewing, and psychodynamic perspectives when those approaches fit a person's needs.

In sessions she focuses on concrete goals such as reducing worry, improving sleep, managing grief, or handling work and caregiving demands. She breaks down problems into manageable steps and practices skills between meetings. She pays attention to attachment issues, body image, intimacy concerns, and problems that come up around illness, aging, or end-of-life care.

Shana helps people address communication problems, commitment and infidelity issues, and the emotional fallout of separation or divorce. She supports people dealing with isolation, abandonment fears, and family of origin wounds. Practical strategies are paired with space to tell one’s story and make sense of recurring patterns.

Sessions aim to build clearer ways of responding to stress and stronger everyday routines. People who want structured, solution-focused work combined with room to reflect on history may find this approach useful. To begin, prospective clients follow the site matching and scheduling process.

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