Geoffrey Golia, LCSW

Geoffrey M. Golia is a psychotherapist and Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who brings warmth, flexibility, and compassion to his therapeutic work. He credits his own experience as a therapy patient with inspiring a career shift into clinical practice, and he approaches each relationship with respect for the transformative potential of a strong therapeutic alliance.

He earned a Master of Social Work from NYU's Silver School of Social Work in 2012 and has focused his career on engaging a diverse range of people, families, and groups in meaningful therapeutic conversation grounded in shared fate and social justice. His clinical work has included justice-involved and formerly incarcerated young men, college students, adolescents and adults from late adolescence through middle adulthood, children affected by the foster care system, and people facing substance use disorders alongside co-occurring mental health challenges.

His practice is eclectic and skills-based, informed by trainings in Dialectical Behavior Therapy including DBT for Substance Use Disorders, psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches, trauma-informed methods, and Motivational Interviewing. Across approaches he emphasizes the idea that individuals carry the capacity for their own healing and liberation, and he aims to provide a reflective space where that capacity can be accessed and developed. He looks forward to working with clients seeking change and healing.