Eliza Chamblin, LCSW
Supervisor, Licensed Psychotherapist
“Healing happens through reparative relationships–between therapist and client, with loved ones, and ultimately, with ourselves.”
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who works with adults in New York City and throughout New York State. I specialize in working with adults with a history of trauma in their childhood or who are feeling stuck in a relationship with themselves, a parent, a sibling, a partner, a colleague, or a friend.
My Therapy Style
I bring my authentic self into the therapy space, including humor and limited self-disclosure. I practice an actively relational approach, exploring the therapeutic relationship as a way of deepening the therapeutic alliance and strengthening awareness and practice around relational themes also present in the outside world. I support collaborative orientation and conceptualization together with my clients using psychodynamic, trauma, schema, and strength lenses. I then support co-creation of a more organic therapeutic process that combines organic elements along with more directive reflection and eclectic offerings including Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, schematic, parts, and somatic perspectives.
I have a strength in patiently and hopefully working with clients to peel back the layers of their complex trauma impact to live more empowered, meaningful, connected lives.
“In the safety of our work together, you'll learn to listen inward, speak your truth, and meet yourself with greater compassion. I’m honored to support your healing, your boundaries, and your becoming.”
My Supervision Style
I have acted as an EMDR Consultant-in-Training providing consultation to clinicians looking to get certified in EMDR, to deepen their EMDR practice, or to apply EMDR with complex cases. Prior to that, I had years of supervisory experience with interns and early career clinicians in a foster care clinic setting supporting family systems to stabilize and heal through application of trauma and attachment-oriented interventions. I supervise from a trauma-based, eclectic lens incorporating EMDR, CBT, psychodynamic, relational, schematic, somatic, and IFS perspectives.
I find the parallel process and witnessing/holding experience of supervision to be particularly rewarding and to balance clinical work nicely. It is an honor for me, in particular, to support a clinician to hone their clinical identity, to deepen the complexity of their clinical work, and to sustain themselves in this intense work.
I expect a supervisee to be independent around documentation and case management, to be proactive in communication or seeking support when needed, and to come to supervision with a loose agenda. I value and welcome openness, transparency, curiosity, reflection, and bravery. I also expect a supervisee to be open to directly exploring and supporting their countertransference in supervision, as well as values of cultural humility and intentions to be LGBTQ+-affirming and anti-racist.
I work well with supervisees who are independent, reflective, and genuinely curious about challenging themselves. I especially connect with clinicians who are interested in deepening their clinical work, expanding their range, and honing a strong sense of professional identity. I’m a good fit for those who are open to exploring countertransference, trying new approaches, and engaging in thoughtful, collaborative dialogue. I particularly enjoy supporting clinicians who are drawn to client-centered, trauma-informed, and parts-based frameworks. Above all, I strive to foster a supervisory space that encourages exploration, accountability, and meaningful connection.
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— Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
— Psychodynamic Therapy
— Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
— Internal Family Systems (IFS)
— Schema Therapy
— Somatic Perspectives
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— Complex trauma
— Anxiety
— Relationship issues
— Women’s issues
— Disenfranchised grief
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I work with adults with a history of complex trauma who are noticing associated challenges arise in their current life including impacted relationships and negative sense of self, others, and/or the world. I am a good fit for clients who have some level of base self-awareness and who have some motivation to change.
I often work with folks who have been in therapy before or for much of their lives or who are therapists themselves. Many of my clients stay for long-term work., but I also enjoy short-term, adjunctive EMDR work with folks who have a primary therapist.
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Fordham University, MSW, 2012
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— EMDRIA Certified Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapist
— EMDRIA Consultant-in-Training
— Certified in Alternatives for Families: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (AF-CBT)
— Certified in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
— Trained Yoga Teacher
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— English
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