Dr. Dan Wolfson is a licensed clinical psychologist who works individually with teens and adults, guides couples and families towards strengthening their relationships, and builds communities of support for children and adults who have experienced loss.
In addition to his therapy practice in New York City, Dr. Wolfson is a consulting psychologist with Manhattan’s prestigious Collegiate School, and the co-creator and clinical director of Experience Camps’ Adult Grief Retreat, where he also spent the past ten years as a director of one of their regional programs for children who have experienced a significant death-loss.
Dr. Wolfson completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University's Center for Prolonged Grief, where he developed expertise in the highly effective modality of Prolonged Grief Treatment (PGT), while conducting research and providing bereavement training to mental health professionals. He has also pursued advanced training in the relational, attachment-oriented models of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP).
Over the past decade, he has provided therapeutic services in schools, colleges, and community mental health centers, and led professional workshops around topics including grief, workplace dynamics, and childhood social/emotional functioning.
Dr. Wolfson is a featured author and advisor to the website Modern Loss, served as an advisory board member for the grief resource company Lantern, and his work has been featured in local and national media outlets including ABC, Today, The Huffington Post, Fatherly, Vice, and more.
Jenna Wolfson is a licensed clinical social worker with a focus on helping children, teens, and adults build skills to better cope with ongoing stressors and challenging emotions. She has both outpatient and psychiatric hospital settings, and has been in private practice since 2016.
Jenna incorporates evidence-based strategies such as CBT and DBT as well as relational client-centered frameworks into her practice, where she specializes in working with anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma.
Jenna is a Senior Social Worker at New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell's Adolescent Partial Hospitalization Program. She works with teenagers and their families, struggling with acute mental illness. She focuses on helping families stabilize by taking an individualized approach to each family's needs. She runs Cognitive Behavioral and Dialectical Behavior therapy groups, primarily helping teens cope with their symptoms in a more adaptive way. Previously, she worked at Bellevue Hospital's inpatient unit, supporting teenagers and their families struggling with acute psychiatric conditions.
Jenna is also the Clinical Director of Experience Camps for Grieving Children, a non-profit organization for children who have experienced a significant death-loss in both Pennsylvania and Maine Girls programs. She runs the clinical program and supervises a team of masters level social workers and counselors.
Jenna believes that therapy is a collaborative process between two people; an opportunity to examine your life and relationships.
Brendan Finnegan is a Licensed Social Worker who works with children and adults across the lifespan, supporting those who are adjusting to a loss, adapting to life transitions, and experiencing anxiety. Brendan strives to work collaboratively with each individual by empowering their strengths in an environment that is trauma-informed, safe, and interpersonally connected.
He incorporates skills-based approaches with mindfulness and other somatic approaches, utilizing music and movement in coordination with talk therapy to enable solutions.
Passionate about supporting those affected by the loss of a loved one, Brendan has been involved in providing group therapy to those experiencing grief as a member of the clinical team at Experience Camps for Grieving Children, and as a co-facilitator of grief-support groups in coordination with a funeral home in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. As part of his studies, Brendan completed research on the use of group drumming as an intervention for those experiencing grief, research that he hopes to continue and expand on in the future.
Previously, Brendan spent over a decade providing recreational group drumming programming to a variety of populations including children, individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities, and the aging. These experiences inform his clinical approach which is to create an empowering and safe therapeutic environment, to remain focused on an individual's unique strengths, and to integrate talk therapy with a variety of other methods including: mindfulness and other somatic approaches, and music, drumming, and other artistic mediums.
Jordan Gross is a Licensed Social Worker who works alongside children, adolescents and adults of all different intersecting identities and diagnoses. Through a trauma-informed, humanistic and culturally humble approach, Jordan collaborates with everyone he sees to achieve their goals and arrive where they want to be in life.
Jordan works from an integrative approach incorporating techniques from a variety of therapeutic modalities, including CBT, mindfulness, Psychodynamic, and Relational therapies. Jordan believes in a nonjudgmental approach to therapy with a strong focus on helping clients utilize and build upon the strengths they already possess.
Jordan has most recently serviced patients of all different ages at a mental health clinic in The Bronx where he was known for his warmth and empathy. Additionally, Jordan has extensive experience working with substance use, gender, sexuality, cultural and family challenges.
Curious to explore the therapeutic relationship in various environments, Jordan has been involved in grief camps, as well exploring grief further by writing a book on the subject.
He uses his creativity to provide approachable, digestible reading material for those tired of prescriptive advice and more interested in growth through creative storytelling.
He also has experience speaking, podcasting, and coaching.
Brittany Pinto is a licensed social worker who specializes in helping individuals navigate the complexities of grief and loss. Brittany has dedicated her career to providing support and guidance to individuals and families dealing with hardship.
Brittany empowers her clients to understand their experiences and build healthier connections with themselves and others. She is committed to creating a safe and supportive space for clients to explore their emotions and develop effective coping strategies. She draws upon her own experiences with grief and loss to offer a deeply empathetic and personalized approach.
In addition to her clinical work with adults, Brittany has volunteered at Experience Camps for Grieving Children, where she gained valuable insights into the unique needs of young people who have experienced loss. This experience, combined with her professional training, allows her to provide compassionate and evidence-based care to clients of all ages.
It isn’t always easy to seek out support, but you’ve already taken an important step, and I hope that we can make the process of connecting with a caring clinician who understands you and your needs as smooth as possible from here.
As the founder and director of Wolfson Therapy, I believe that everyone deserves individualized, connected support to help them adapt and grow.
I intimately understand the impacts of grief and loss, and have built on that lived experience with an academic curiosity that has led me to pursue advanced training in a number of frameworks to help my clients reach their goals.
My personal and professional journey has helped me identify the importance of building community to help us navigate life’s hurdles. We can't do it alone.
I am proud to be able to put these values into practice in my work and alongside the wonderful therapists I have brought together at Wolfson Therapy.
Imagine sitting around a campfire, stars in the sky, pine and smoke scent in the air. You're surrounded by a ring of people, united by shared experience.
We want you to feel that we understand you on a deeper level, and can join together with you to help you strive towards reaching your full potential. In order to get there, you need to know that you’re working with someone who cares about you, who can sit with you even in your most vulnerable moments, and who genuinely believes in you.