Toby Faye Mailman

Toby Faye Mailman is a New York State licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who offers experienced, pragmatic therapeutic support to adults seeking answers and resolution to life dilemmas. She completed her degree at New York University and has worked in individual adult practice since 2001, bringing over two decades of experience to each therapeutic relationship. She works in both English and Spanish and has experience supporting people from diverse ethnic, cultural, and sexual orientation backgrounds while attending to the ways cultural norms can shape the therapeutic process.

Her practice is grounded in a collaborative, coaching-oriented stance that helps people identify and build on their existing strengths while developing new skills. Establishing a trusting relationship is central to her work, and she adapts therapeutic methods to fit each person’s needs. Modalities she draws on include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Narrative Therapy, body work, Mindfulness-based approaches, and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, among others. She encourages regularly scheduled weekly or bi-weekly sessions and requests advance notice for appointment changes so ongoing treatment remains consistent and respectful of everyone’s time.

Toby has worked with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, depression, relationship and parenting difficulties, grief and mourning, anger, career challenges, and coping with life changes. Additional focus areas include abandonment, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, co-morbidity, communication and control issues, domestic violence, substance use, first responder challenges, forgiveness, guilt and shame, HIV/AIDS, hoarding, and immigration-related adjustment. She hopes to support people in improving and enriching their lives and acknowledges the courage it takes to seek help.