Practice Owner, Psychotherapist and Nutritional Therapist
Dr. Rappaport brings her own unique combination of professional training, personal skills, and life experience to doing therapy. She grew up in Latvia but spent the last 20 years in US. She received her BS in Psychology and Social Work from University of Latvia, followed up with a MSW in Social Work from Rutgers University, and recently earned a PhD in General Psychology from Capella University.
Her therapeutic “style” combines a real-world mindset, along with strong theoretical and practical background, compassion, imagination and a sense of humor. She uses traditional methods of psychotherapy along with non-traditional therapies of holistic and integrative healing modalities to create a fuller integration between the mind, body and spirit, and to accomplish the deepest level of change, healing and transformation possible.
After a personal health crisis, Dr. Rappaport was led to her own unique integration of two healing worlds: the Eastern (functional) and the Western (traditional) approaches to health. Not only did she respond well to the herbal supplementation and essential oils physically, she was surprised to experience a new clarity and emotional healing, as well. She found holistic methods to be the perfect pairing to the therapies she uses in psychotherapy. It supports the counseling process because it restores balance to the body level manifestation of the Mental/Emotional issues at hand by looking at the psychosomatic aspect of the disease.
These are a few of the practices that she embraces, and ones which she incorporates into her current practice alongside with classical therapeutic approaches such as CBT, DBT, Psychoanalysis, Interpersonal Therapy, NLP, and many more.
Credentials:
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker, New Jersey
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker, New York
• M.A. Special Education and Social Work, University of Latvia
• MSW, Masters in Social Work, Rutgers University
• Doctorate in General Psychology, Capella University
• Registered member of the American Herbalist Guild “RH (AHG)”.
• Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Certification
• Reiki Certification
• Mother of three boys and a step-mother to two beautiful bonus kids!
