About
Marsha Blank,MA,LCSW, began her career as a Schema Therapist working at the Cognitive Therapy Center of New York/The Schema Therapy Institute, directed by Dr. Jeffrey Young. She has expertise in working with Personality Disorders, Attachment Issues, Anxiety Disorders, Developmental and Intergenerational Trauma. Marsha has worked extensively with pregnant and postpartum women, mother/infant dyads and families. In the 1980's, Marsha created Parent Support Services, a center providing individual and group therapy for new parents, therapy for the parents of children and adolescents, movement/exercise classes for pregnant and postpartum women and in-home therapy for clinically depressed new parents. In the early 2000's, after attending a lecture by Dr.Young, Marsha began training in Schema Therapy.
Marsha was trained in child/adolescent schema therapy by Dr. Christof Loose and Ida Shaw and subsequently, she offered the first child/adolescent ST training in the United States. She is an Advanced Certified Schema Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer in Adult Individual Schema Therapy and Child/Adolescent Schema Therapy, as well as a Certified Developmental Somatic Psychotherapist.
Marsha incorporates movement and somatic techniques in her practice of Schema Therapy.