Abby Ridgeway is a Mental Health Counselor with a Master’s in Mental Health Counseling from City University of New York, City College. She appreciates the complexities of the individuals and families she works with. Her clinical practice is comprised of compassion, curiosity, and an understanding of the systems that individuals engage with. Abby prioritizes collaboration with all her clients to create a unique therapeutic space tailored specifically to their needs and comfort levels. She views her clients as multidimensional, with identities that intersect at individual, interpersonal, and community levels. Abby believes that community can be healing and encourages expanding thought into interpersonal and community relationships?always to the comfort of each client. As an integrative clinician, Abby enjoys incorporating relational, systemic, and trauma-informed therapeutic approaches into her practice, such as Family Systems Therapy, Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS), and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT). She often pairs these approaches with mindfulness techniques stemming from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Horticultural Therapy (HT). She has experience working with anxiety, depression, trauma, PTSD, parenting, phobias, intimate partner and family violence, chronic illness, identity exploration, grief and bereavement, and climate/eco-anxiety. Abby’s approach has been described as engaged, holistic, and intuitive, as she assists her clients with self-understanding, making positive life changes, and feeling comfortable sharing their inner worlds. Specialties: Trauma, PTSD, LGBTQIA+ Care, Depression, OCD, Anxiety, Phobias, Parenting, Pregnancy/Prenatal/Postpartum, Chronic Illness, Self-Esteem Issues, BIPOC Mental Health, Identity Issues, Panic Attacks, Grief and Bereavement, Mood Disorders, Life Transitions, Family Issues, Eco/Climate-Anxiety