Michelle Hurwitz
I’m Michelle Hurwitz, LCSW, a licensed mental health therapist with over 17 years of experience, I help adults manage anxiety, depression, trauma, parenting challenges, life transitions, and women’s issues. My style is warm, collaborative, and focused on building coping skills, fostering balance, and creating meaningful, lasting change.
I’m proud to offer non-pathologizing, trauma-informed, and sex-positive therapy.
I’m proud to offer non-pathologizing, trauma-informed, and sex-positive therapy. I use a whole-person approach that is sensitive to the diverse experiences shaped by culture, race, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
First session
In your first session, we’ll focus on getting to know each other and understanding what’s bringing you to therapy. I’ll ask questions about your concerns, goals, and history, and you’ll have space to share at your own pace. This session is also a chance for you to ask questions, get a feel for my approach, and decide if working together feels like a good fit.
Strengths
My personal experience, combined with my clinical expertise and use of evidence-based practices, allows me to be flexible and supportive to each client’s unique needs.
Ideal clients
I especially value creating a safe, nonjudgmental space for clients to explore issues related to marriage, intimacy, pregnancy, motherhood, parenting, family relationships, and social injustice. I bring both personal experience and professional insight into challenges related to immigration, culture, and identity, which are areas of special interest in my work. I welcome the opportunity to support you on your journey toward improved mental health and overall well-being.
Treatment methods
Attachment-based
In my work from an attachment-based approach, I explore with individuals how early relationships shape the way they connect, cope, and protect themselves. Many of the challenges people bring to therapy like anxiety in relationships, fear of abandonment, emotional shutdown, people-pleasing, or repeating the same painful patterns—make sense when viewed through an attachment lens. In my work with clients, we explore how their past experiences have influenced your sense of safety, self-worth, and expectations of others, while staying focused on what’s happening in their lives right now. I strive to create a therapy relationship that feels consistent, attuned, and emotionally safe, because healing often happens through experiencing a new kind of connection.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help clients understand the connection between their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, and to build practical skills for managing anxiety, depression, and life stressors. Together, we identify unhelpful thought patterns, develop coping strategies, and practice tools that can be used in daily life. My approach is collaborative, flexible, and focused on helping you feel more empowered and confident both in and outside of therapy.
Culturally Sensitive Therapy
In my practice, I approach therapy with curiosity, respect, and openness. I strive to create a space where clients feel safe exploring how cultural influences and systemic experiences may impact their challenges and strengths. I tailor treatment to align with each client’s values and worldview, while working collaboratively to support growth, healing, and empowerment.
Humanistic
I use a humanistic approach to therapy that emphasizes empathy, authenticity, and respect for each client’s unique experience. I aim to create a supportive, nonjudgmental space where clients can better understand themselves, reconnect with their values, and move toward meaningful personal growth.
Location
Virtual sessions
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- New JerseyLicense 44SC05543700