Christina DelBene
She/Her/Hers
Licensed Master Social Worker, LMSW Practice: Resilience Lab Specialties • Insurance & Fees • LocationsShe/Her/Hers
Licensed Master Social Worker, LMSW Practice: Resilience Lab Specialties • Insurance & Fees • LocationsChristina’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.
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
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
New York: 116023-01
English