• Grief and Trauma

• Anxiety

• Life transitions

• Family Conflict

• Child and Adolescent Developmental Challenges

Brendan Finnegan has worked across the life span supporting children, adolescents, adults, and families who have experienced trauma, the loss of a loved one, and/or found it difficult adjusting to stressors and life transitions. Brendan has most recently assisted children impacted by the incarceration of a loved one by providing therapy and working collaboratively with families to improve communication and leverage existing resources to improve family functioning. Additionally, Brendan has extensive experience working with individuals of varying abilities by aiding self-advocacy, and the implementation of activities of daily living. 

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.