Lydia Thompson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who lives and practices in NYC. After attending Kenyon College, Lydia graduated from the Columbia University School of Social Work in 2012. Prior to entering private practice, Lydia worked in a variety of NYC community mental health settings providing clinical services in addition to doing administrative work.
Lydia began her career supporting domestic violence survivors at a non-profit organization called STEPS to End Family Violence. She then moved on to work as a mental health clinician at Rikers Island where she worked with multiple populations including teenage boys charged with felonies and adult men and women who had been found unfit to stand trial due to severe and persistent mental illness. From there she worked in outpatient psychiatry at Bronx Lebanon Hospital providing psychotherapy to a population of individuals in the community. She then returned to the correctional health space in an administrative capacity to oversee a program which operated out of Manhattan and Brooklyn Central Bookings and provided services to individuals shortly after their arrest.
Lydia has an entirely virtual practice and is licensed in NY, NJ, FL, and CA. Lydia's treatment approach focuses primarily on creating a partnership. Her intake process consists of getting a sense of a client's prior treatment history with an emphasis on whatever the client views as the most pressing need. Within the context of a relational and person-centered approach, Lydia will employ more targeted CBT and DBT-based interventions as needed. Lydia also enjoys integrating mindfulness tools into treatment whenever possible. Lydia will make a point of learning about your additional self care tools outside of therapy so that a holistic treatment plan can be created that addresses your needs both in and out of session.
