Raffaela Bonventre, LMSW

Raffaela will lovingly and mindfully work with you to construct an environment that meets your needs, and offers hope and repair for your wounds. She will help you build skills and tolerance for vulnerabiliy and authenticy that translate outside the therapeutic walls and reverabates throughout your life.

She works with survivors of chronic dysfunction, abuse and domestic violence, suicidal ideation and emotional crises, maladaptive couple and family functioning, substance abuse and eating disorders, anxiety, depression, and grief. Raffaela prioritizes an empathic therapeutic space and relationship as the instrument to guide each person towards a meaningful life with healthy and conscious awareness and fulfilling relationships with self and others to foster love and growth. Raffaela utilizes trauma- informed modalities to make sense of limiting or distorted thought patterns, behavioral challenges and recurring patterns, interpersonal troubles, somatic discomfort, and spiritual crises.  Raffaela utilizes pillars of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy/ Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, psychodynamic theory, somatic experiencing, mindfulness, parts work/ internal family systems, and an intergenerational lens.  Raffaela works to embody safety, to create a space of union for people to align with themselves and their surroundings, to feel seen wholly, as they are and wish to be, through the relationships, cultures, systems and environments that have influenced their shape.  She got her undergraduate degree in Psychology at Marist College and her Social Work degree from Fordham University