Benia Thomas

Benia Thomas is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in New York who brings twelve years of professional experience to her work. She earned a Master of Social Work from Fordham University in New York with an emphasis on children, youth, and families, and completed her bachelor’s degree in social work at Lehman College in the Bronx.

She began her career supporting children and families within the New York City foster care system and later provided counseling and psychoeducation to incarcerated women living with severe mental illness, facilitating personal empowerment groups as well as individual therapy. In addition to direct clinical work, she served as a clinical supervisor, offering supervision to Master-level social workers.

Her clinical interests include stress, anxiety, depression, grief and loss, family and relationship issues, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, parenting challenges, anger management, self-esteem, career difficulties, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue. She especially enjoys working with adolescents and young adults. As a lesbian who has worked with the LGBTQ+ community professionally for over ten years, she brings informed perspective to issues that commonly affect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer clients.

Benia approaches healing as a collaborative process rooted in honest, nonjudgmental care and clear goal-setting. Rather than relying on a single method, she blends techniques from multiple approaches to tailor treatment to each person’s needs. Colleagues and clients can expect a warm, open, encouraging, and direct clinician who combines clinical experience, creativity, education, and a sense of humor with a practical, down-to-earth style. She focuses on understanding a person’s unique story so that the changes they make are meaningful and enduring.