Nina Jaroslaw

Nina earned an LMSW from the Columbia School of Social Work (CSSW), a BA from Yale College, where she studied literature, art history and theater, and a degree in interior design from Parsons. She is currently a candidate in psychoanalysis at the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center, and has studied DBT and RO-DBT, cognitive restructuring, narrative therapy, mindfulness practices and vagal nerve regulation. She was also a founding member of CSSW’s Psychedelic Caucus, which explores the integration of psychedelic plant medicines with psychotherapy. Nina’s practice is dedicated to the co-creation of a flexible, intuitive, compassionate space, rooted in trust and reciprocity, and committed to the achievement of actual, durable change.

Therapeutic interpretations and insights, though often essential and even revealing, are usually not enough. Nina works with individuals and couples to unearth what lies beyond or beneath what can be thought and known, with her ears open for the small but telling clues which, once discovered and explored, can lead to real relief and release.

Nina has worked with clients through sadness, rumination, avoidance and ambivalence, the ache of trauma, the residue of abuse, and the rage and anguish of a loathed, un-fed body. Through this work, she has been honored to participate in journeys of revelation, healing, and self-discovery.

Beyond her psychotherapeutic training, Nina’s work is informed by her background in the arts, her love of literature, history and music, her dedication to political activism and advocacy in the service of social justice and liberation, and her parenting of four children. Additionally, Nina’s practice fundamentally reflects the ethics and values of social work, in that she believes we humans are indivisible from our current and historical environments, and are invariably impacted by the systemic oppressions and marginalizations which may perpetuate feelings of powerlessness, rage and despair. She believes that no real healing is possible without consideration of how the greater world, in all its whirling, vibrant delights and polarizing, grievous challenges, impacts our daily lived experience.