Jack Skelton, LCSW

As your therapist, I work with you to explore deeper questions, break patterns that no longer serve you, establish healthy boundaries and relationships (with yourself and others), and strengthen your rituals and strategies of care.  I believe that you are the expert on your life, and that our work together is to help you uncover your answers that are true to your unique life experience.

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These beliefs come from years of community organizing work--with LGBTQ and anti-racist organizing in different communities and around different issues like welfare rights, homeless youth, and food justice organizing here in NYC. All of that work is inherently intersectional, anti-racist, feminist, and anti-capitalist for me. 
 
I believe healing is part of our movement work because liberation includes our whole selves-- the hurt parts, the healing  parts, and the growing parts.

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My therapeutic approach is client-centered, strengths-based, and anti-oppressive. I use therapeutic models like Mary Poppins pulls from her bag—together we will identify the tools that work best for you. I use a lot of motivational interviewing, CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), mindfulness, art, movement, and music activities. I've done a lot of work with trauma survivors and clients who struggle with embodiment for a range of reasons, so I use a lot of somatic and mindfulness techniques as well. Finally, I'm a direct communicator. Neurodivergent clients have found this helpful in the past.

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I have over 10 years of experience working with individuals and groups to address and move through life challenges, including:
· anxiety and depression
· healthy and unhealthy relationships
· LGBTQ identities and life transitions
· stress from disability/chronic illness and/or caretaking
· self-esteem issues
· enhancing communication and interpersonal skills
· setting boundaries
· conflict resolution

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As a clinician who does work around relationships, I welcome clients who are exploring or engaged in non-monogamy, sex-work, and/or kink. I am fat-positive and body-positive. I am a white clinician, deeply invested in anti-racist work.

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