Mr. Aaron Silverman
LCSW, Therapist
Aaron has extensive experience working with a wide range of both growth
goals and sympyomatic issues including professional development, bipolar
disorder, addiction, trauma, and family-related struggles such as divorce
and relational breakdowns. He works with clients across the lifespan,
including teenagers, adults, and seniors, offering a thoughtful and
personalized approach to each stage of life.
In addition to his clinical work, Aaron served as a professor at Long
Island University in New York for five years, where he trained and mentored
future mental health professionals. He has also held multiple supervisory
roles, supporting clinicians in developing their skills and deepening their
therapeutic effectiveness.
Aaron has developed an original, integrative therapeutic method that blends
styles such as Somatic Experiencing, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT),
and Internal Family Systems (IFS). This approach is centered on helping
clients move through emotional experiences rather than avoid them, allowing
for a return to emotional balance (homeostasis) and the restoration of
genuine freedom of choice.
His method follows three core steps:
1. Identifying the emotion and allowing it to be fully felt in the body
2. Validating the emotional experience without judgment
3. Offering self-compassion to the part of oneself that is in pain
Through this process, clients are supported in releasing stuck emotional
patterns and reconnecting with a more grounded, empowered sense of self.
Outside of his professional life, Aaron is a songwriter and performer who
creates original pop and R&B music. He is married and the father of four
children, and he brings the richness of his personal life and creative
expression into his work with clients.