Cindy Maric, LCSW, C-DBT

Therapy for anxiety, depression and trauma in Westchester, NY

Are you feeling stuck in your life and are struggling with making decisions because you don’t have the energy for change or feel scared you’re going to make the wrong decision?

Are you having a lot of what-if thoughts? Do you feel like fear is holding you back?

Are you struggling with relationships in your life, finding it hard to communicate or difficult to start new ones and sever ties with current destructive relationships?

Hi, I’m Cindy, LCSW, C-DBT.

Sometimes we can use help understanding the causes of our behaviors and learning new ways to make necessary changes in life.
I will work on making you feel safe, comfortable and understood while we explore some of these struggles and the potential worries, concerns or feelings about starting and being in therapy.
I will ask for feedback during our therapeutic relationship to ensure you feel heard, and that your goals are being addressed. I am also open to making the changes you may feel will help you get the most of therapy.
It is through trial and error of trying new things that we often figure out what works for us and facilitates the change needed to accomplish our goals in life. Therapy will help if you are invested in the process, meaning you attend sessions as scheduled, participate in sessions and are open to trying new skills outside of session.
By doing things that are difficult in and outside of therapy, you will build mastery or a sense of competency, which will lead to self-growth and self-love and chop away at the stuck feeling.
You will feel a sense of freedom, confidence and control in more aspects of your life.
By teaching and encouraging you to try different skills in between our sessions and following up with how those skills worked for you in subsequent sessions, you are held accountable, which is a major factor in successful outcomes.

Together, we can help you to:

Shift from cognitive distortions that have kept you feeling stuck, guilty, shameful or fearful in your life like magnifying events or making them feel “bigger” than they are, thinking we can read someone else’s mind or see into the future;
Make sense of the causes of your behavior by exploring how certain current or past stressful life experiences and/or trauma have and continue to impact our perception of yourself, others and the world
To break away from those misperceptions through the building of awareness (ie- how our brain makes certain connections between negative experiences in our past and our current-day struggles) meanings and uncovering our untapped or hidden strengths and resources.

Testimonials

“As an ER nurse, I work with many different healthcare providers. I cannot say there are many providers that are as honest, hardworking, dedicated, and compassionate as Cindy. She cares tremendously for her clients, is always willing to go the extra mile, and definitely has a way of changing your life for the better. Cindy is extra special, and a rare find.”
Testimonials

“I have been seeing Cindy for the last 6 months and she has helped me tremendously.... she truly cares about her patients and provides you with all the tools and resources you need to get better. She is open and honest I highly recommend her to anyone who is new to therapy or searching for a new therapist.”

CINDY MARIC, LICENSED CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER

About Me

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in New York State. I teach DBT and CBT skills, incorporating Prolonged Exposure for patients with trauma, to help identify their life vision successfully attain it. By building awareness of where certain beliefs and thoughts came from and building a toolbox of healthy skills to help mitigate fear and other emotions, you will develop a greater ability to control and influence which emotions you experience, when you have them, and how you experience and express them. You won’t feel trapped in your emotions but rather be able to freely breathe and control them. Subsequently, you will feel more in control and satisfied in your life.

Outside of the therapy room, I can be seen spending time with my husband and 2 children , hiking, exercising, trying a new recipe, reading, watching the newest crime series or movie on Netflix.

I have known from a young age that I wanted to work in a field that helped people. I just wasn’t sure what that embodied. As a teenager, I faced the challenges that come with parents divorcing, the difficulties of middle and high school, and learning to become resilient and capable.
I learned that you don’t have to stay in any place, or with anyone, that isn’t healthy. There are usually options. I learned the importance of standing up for myself and surrounding myself with quality friends. I learned the importance of checking the facts and not believing rumors. I learned to become comfortable being by myself and that a situation that may feel like forever, never is. I learned that while we may want to rush the timing of things that we may want so badly in life, there is a reason why we are supposed to wait for them.
I learned at college that we can minimize our suffering by changing our environment and rediscovering our strengths. I learned that sometimes knowing you can do something is more gratifying than actually pursuing it. Throughout all of these trials and tribulations, whatever didn’t break me really did make me stronger and more capable of not succumbing to hard times. I learned how to grow from these experiences in a way that made me feel masterful and more motivated to help others grow from the tumultuous chapters in their lives rather than yield to them.
In the words of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross:
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in New York State. I graduated from Hofstra University with my Bachelor’s in Sociology and a minor in Political Science. I graduated from Fordham University with a Master’s degree in Clinical Social Work.
Over the past 20 years, I have earned at least 12 Continuing Education credits per year, predominantly focused on trainings in Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy and trauma.
I have obtained certification in Child and Adolescent Yoga and Mindfulness; CCTP- Certified Clinical Trauma Professional and in 2022 earned my Certification as a Dialectical Behavior Therapist.
I can be hard on myself, I struggle at times with being present or in the moment, though I have made much improvement; I lose my patience with my kids when I see them using their electronics too much. I am a work in progress, but with every day, month or year that goes by, despite the mistakes and failings that I make, the values I want to live by, and the confidence in the path I am taking becomes more clear and self-assured.