Margaret Brando LSW, RYT200
Margaret has a degree in Human Development and Family Studies from Pennsylvania State University and completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s in Social Work from Fordham University. She is a Licensed Social Worker (LSW) in the state of New Jersey. Margaret completed her RYT200 in Trauma-Informed Yoga Instruction for Mental Health Professionals through the Sakala School of Integrated Teaching. She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW). Margaret’s integrated approach is based on healing through empathy, relationship, and connection. She believes in providing a safe, supportive, and compassionate environment for engaging the mind and body in the therapeutic process. Therapy sessions create a space for each unfolding story and set of life experiences and to collaboratively set goals towards developing tools and building coping skills, while also deepening the connection to the body and inner resources. Margaret incorporates a variety of approaches and practices that draw from psychodynamic theory, trauma-informed yoga, mind-body modalities, CBT/DBT, nature therapy, and expression through the creative arts.
Get to Know Margaret
Prior to working as an outpatient clinician, Margaret has worked with individuals and families of all ages in New York City and New Jersey. Her roles in aging services included supporting aging in place initiatives and intergenerational programs.Her own life journey has led her to an understanding of the interconnectedness of mind and body in the healing process. She supports the belief that post-traumatic growth is an experience in which the individual is able to access held trauma, bringing awareness with the body and talk therapy as a tool to process and re-integrate past experiences to build a stronger self and inner resilience. This new foundation of healing is accessed through reframing vulnerability as a strength. Outside of work Margaret loves spending quality time with her family and friends, giving her dog belly rubs, and spending time in nature. Her favorite things in life are wildflowers, traveling, hiking, arts and crafts, live music, and comedy.
Margaret Specializes In:
- Mind-Body Modalities
- Mindfulness
- Nature-based therapy
- Trauma-informed/Restorative Yoga
- ADHD
- Aging
- Life Transitions
- Separation/Divorce/Co-parenting
- Blended Families
- Couples/Relationships
- Chronic Illnesses
- Grief/Bereavement
