Aaron Silverman

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Aaron Silverman's style

Why Aaron Silverman chose to be in the helping profession

For much of my life, I've felt a desire to know. During my one year of Jewish Hebrew school when I was 12, I found little interest in what I thought Judaism was. I clicked with the spirituality I hadn't much recognized in the Hebrew school, and I felt a pull towards deeper things. At 17, I attended Albright College - Liberal Arts, which had a noted philosophy department.

Right before I left for Albright, I met the Chassidic community in my town, Morristown, NJ.

I visited the yeshiva over the next two months and found chassidic teaching to be more enjoyable than my previous understanding of self. After one year at college, I enrolled in a yeshiva and learned full time. I then got more skills in communicating ways for other people to get to know themselves and I found I was good at it.

I got married in 2005 and my wife and I went together to graduate school at Touro College for our social work degrees. I started officially counseling in the CDTP of Pesach Tikvah as a group counselor a short time after marriage, but I went to Touro College only in 2009 and graduated with a Masters in
Social Work in 2013. Since licensure, i have had experience in teaching, consulting, supervision, and private practice.

Aaron Silverman's approach

All people have wisdom, they just have to have the right space to access it. I help clients identify themselves via relationships and introspection, and their unique responses to life. My skills lye in helping others focus and emote, to heal with the help of insights and corrective emotional experiences.

I am an eclectic therapist, with a specialty combined from the vocabulary of Motivational Interviewing, CBT, DBT, IFS, EFT, Tapping, Rogerian Therapy, Somatic Intervention, among others, but all primarily infused with the awareness of Torah and chassidus.

What you can expect from sessions with Aaron Silverman

My clients can expect to connect with me and enjoy therapy. A bit of humor, healthy modeling and being accessible, I think clients find the sessions are like speaking to something inside themselves when we touch a natural wisdom that recognizes when things sound true.

I love learning and am a student of life. Music, psychology, and secular fields (health, finance, etc), along with Torah ideals help me connect to clients. I reference holy concepts according to client comfort and preference.

I welcome you to discuss your specific financial situation.

Aaron Silverman's experience working with the Jewish community

I assist people in making better decisions through more self awareness. I've worked with Jewish clients since 2001 and have a unique sense and intent when helping Jews.

Starting as a yeshiva student in 1996, I cared for co-students, mentored teens and adults, did direct care work for Human Care Services in a group home, and ran group therapy Jewish adults for Pesach Tikvah in their day program, before social work licensure in 2014.

I continued group work until around graduation and then did 7 years of case management for Jewish adults with mental illness for Pesach Tikvah and Ohel. I also taught Jewish graduate students of social work at LIU for
four years (where every class was a like a group therapy session!), supervised mentors for Shvili, a growing program in Wiliamsburg that empowers OTD teens in NYC and did intakes for Pesach Tikvah for Jewish youth, enrolling them in the CFTSS program.

Aaron Silverman's Book Recommendation Zone

• Toward a Psychology of Being
• No Bad Parts
• Facing Codependency

Approaches

• Attachment-based
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
• Existential
• Inner child work
• Internal Family Systems (IFS)
• Mindfulness and Meditation
• Motivational Interviewing
• Person-Centered Therapy
• Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)

Concerns

• Addiction
• Anxiety
• Dating
• Depression
• Divorce/Separation
• Drug/Substance Abuse
• Emotion regulation
• Mood Disorders
• Parenting
• Personality issues & disorders
• Relationships
• Religious Identity Issues
• Self-Harm/Suicidality
• Transitions & Change
• Trauma

13 years in practice

Licences

• LMSW by NY State 2014. License number 088791

Degrees

• LMSW by Touro College 2012

Awards

• Honors Graduate by Touro College 2012

Certificates

• SIFI by LIU 2023

Trainings

• Energy Psychology by ACEP 2023

Affiliations

• Professor of Social Work by Long Island University 2018

Average costs per session

$95 - $175

Payment Methods

• Sliding Scale
• Free consultation
• Cash
• Zelle Quick Pay
• Venmo
• PayPal