Christina DelBene
Christina DelBene
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Christina DelBene

Christina DelBene

She/Her/Hers

Licensed Master Social Worker, LMSW Practice: Resilience Lab Specialties • Insurance & Fees • Locations
New York Accepting Online
Flatiron District Not Accepting In-person
Updated June 28, 2023

Specialties & Expertise

  • Cultural adjustment
  • Domestic violence
  • Life transitions
  • Self-esteem
  • Trauma
  • Women's issues

Professional statement

Christina’s work is grounded in promoting individual and community care, self-love, and healing. Her style is centered in psychodynamic approaches and social justice, which integrate the value of individual history, emotional processes, and social identities.

Many of Christina’s clients are navigating stress, anxiety, difficult life transitions, trauma, abuse, or lack of self-acceptance. She guides them into a deeper understanding of the root causes of these feelings and experiences, exploring their impact on how they see and care for themselves, move through the world, and engage in relationships.

Previously, Christina worked in social justice and advocacy with survivors of intimate partner violence, asylum-seekers, and refugees displaced by violence and oppression. She draws on this experience and approaches her work through a human rights and trauma-informed lens—validating the impacts of past experiences on the present, and the harm societal systems can cause.

Message to clients

Making the choice to begin therapy is a radical act of self-love. My mission is to provide a supportive, affirming space where clients can explore and better understand their challenges, cultivate a more trusting relationship with themselves, and experience greater joy.

Taking part in deep therapeutic work and individual and community healing practices can transform societies. Whether you’re navigating change, experiencing stress and anxiety, coping with trauma, struggling with self-acceptance, or simply seeking to expand your self-awareness, you deserve a space for healing and care.

Specialties

Cultural adjustment - Acclimating to a new environment; managing stress and coping with feelings of loss and separation from familiar people and places

Domestic violence - Caring support along the pathway to safety, wellbeing, and healing for those surviving a partner’s abusive attempts to control one’s thoughts, beliefs, and actions

Life transitions - Coping with difficult or impactful life changes, such as moving to a new area, relationship transitions, child rearing, or career changes; learning self-care to better manage resulting stress

Self-esteem - Cultivating self-compassion, assertiveness, and confidence; developing ways to reduce suffering, anxiety, social withdrawal, and self-neglect

Trauma - Coping and healing after threatening or scary events, such as witnessing accidents or experiencing sexual, verbal, emotional, or physical abuse

Women's issues - Therapy tailored to common concerns among women; providing a safe and understanding space to address life challenges, stressors, and questions around identity as a woman

General expertise

Treatment approaches

Clientele

  • Adults (24+)
  • Young adults (18-24)

Insurance

  • Aetna
  • Aetna International
  • Aetna Student Health Insurance
  • All Savers Insurance Company
  • Allied Benefit Systems
  • Cigna
  • Golden Rule Insurance Company
  • Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
  • MVP Healthcare
  • Meritain Health
  • New School Student Insurance (United Healthcare Student Resources)
  • Nippon Life Benefits
  • Optum
  • Oxford Health Plans
  • Surest (formerly Bind)
  • Trustmark
  • UMR
  • United Healthcare
  • United Healthcare Shared Services
  • University of California Berkeley Student Health Insurance (Wellfleet Student)
  • Wellfleet

Out-of-pocket fees

  • Individual sessions: $150 (45min)
  • Sliding scale: $100 - $150

Location(s)

Online Sessions (New York)
Accepting new clients online
Currently Available Times
  • Morning (Before 10am)
  • Daytime (10am - 1pm)
  • Afternoon (1pm - 5pm)
  • Evening (After 5pm)
  • Weekends
Regular Hours
  • Mon 10am-7pm
  • Tue 10am-7pm
  • Wed Closed
  • Thu 11am-7pm
  • Fri 10am-7pm
  • Sat Please inquire about hours
  • Sun Closed
Flatiron District practice
Not accepting new clients in-person
Currently Available Times
  • Morning (Before 10am)
  • Daytime (10am - 1pm)
  • Afternoon (1pm - 5pm)
  • Evening (After 5pm)
  • Weekends
Regular Hours
  • Mon Please inquire about hours
  • Tue Please inquire about hours
  • Wed Please inquire about hours
  • Thu Please inquire about hours
  • Fri Please inquire about hours
  • Sat Please inquire about hours
  • Sun Please inquire about hours

Work and Education

We Are Not Afraid Community Center, Food Programs & Case Management Intern, 2020 - 2021
Helpmate Domestic Violence Agency, Shelter & Court Advocate, 2016 - 2018

CUNY - Silberman School of Social Work, MSW, 2021
Western Carolina University, BSW, 2017

Licensure

New York: 116023-01

Languages

English