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Barbara Reese, MSW, LCSW, MPS, ADTR is the Clinical Director of the Women’s Therapy Service. She is a NJ State Licensed Clinical Social Worker She has been in private practice in Montclair since 1995 and has utilized a psychodynamic approach to individual, child/family, and women’s mental health care for over 15 years.
She is an experienced child/adolescent therapist and has worked in Child/Adolescent Psychiatry at leading teaching hospitals in NYC, such as Mount Sinai and Beth Israel Medical Centers. She sees children at the Women’s Therapy Service for the age of 2 and older, for a variety of developmental issues such as biting, eating, anxiety, depression, and grief reactions and offers parent guidance to parents. Her expertise with adolescents includes anxiety, depression, grief, and eating disorders.
She has extensive clinical experience using the arts in therapy. Her graduate degrees are in Expressive Arts Therapies from Pratt Institute (MPS, 1987) and Clinical Social Work (MSW,1993) from New York University. She is an experienced dance/movement Therapist and clinical supervisor, registered at the supervisory level (ADTR) This mind-body blend is a core foundation in the treatment orientation of all of her clinical work.
Ms. Reese is an experienced eating disorder practitioner and treats the full range of eating disorders – anorexia, bulimia, binge and compulsive eating disorders. She conducts short-term and long-term therapy groups at the Women’s Therapy Service – The INNER IMAGE Program for Eating and Body Image Concerns. She has had several private groups that have remained together for 5-10 years.
Ms. Reese has lectured on the psychology of body image and the treatment and prevention of eating disorders at are schools and national and international conferences. Her presentations and professional seminars on eating disorders and body image problems have included:
- The National Professional Skaters Association – for judges and coaches
- National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence
- 9th Annual International Eating Disorders Symposium
- Montclair State University, Caldwell College
- NAAFA annual conference
Currently, she is the Coordinator of the Eating Disorder Support Groups - sponsored by A.N.A.D. of Northern NJ. Ms. Reese coordinates teams of professional and recovered leaders who facilitate these multi-family support groups. The monthly meetings are held at The Saint Barnabas Ambulatory Care Center in Livingston, New Jersey. This support group recently got a recognition in The Forum of the Academy of Eating Disorders -
http://aedweb.org/newsletter/index.cfm?fuseaction-Newsletter.ShowThisissue& Issue_ID=7
Ms. Reese is a professional member of:
- The National Association of Social Workers, New Jersey Chapter
- The National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Related Disorders
- The American Dance Therapy Association
- NJ Association of Women Therapists
Vanessa Matos, M.A., L.A.C. is an associate of the Women’s Therapy Service of Montclair. She is NJ State Licensed Associate Counselor, currently completing her final requirements for independent licensure, the LPC. She provides counseling and therapeutic services in a multi-cultural context, and conducts treatment in Portuguese and English. She obtained her masters degree in counseling from Montclair State University in 2006. Ms. Matos has been affiliated with the Women’s Therapy Service, first as a graduate intern, and now as a professional counselor.
At the Women’s Therapy Service, she provides both adult and child/adolescent counseling, parent guidance, child play therapy, and is beginning adoption groups for young teens. She has a structuring and engaging style with children and adolescents. Her clinical experience with the disorders of childhood have been with depression, anxiety, adjustment to medical illness, and pervasive developmental disorders.
Ms. Matos has completed the Adoption Certification Program at Rutgers University, which provided her with training in working with the adoption triad – adoptee, birth family, and adoptive parents. She brings this special orientation to the Women’s Therapy Service. She has also been trained and certified in the Post Traumatic Stress Management Model by The Trauma Coalition of New Jersey.
At the Women’s Therapy Service, Ms. Matos has been developing an expertise in eating disorders. Her areas of clinical focus with adults and adolescents, have been with the full range of eating disorders – anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorders. She volunteers her professional time as a co-facilitator for the Eating Disorder Support Groups of ANAD of Northern NJ, which are held at The Saint Barnabas Ambulatory Care Center. She provides inservices to schools and the community agencies, on the prevention and detection of eating disorders.
In addition to her affiliation with the Women’s Therapy Service of Montclair, she maintains a position as Clinical Supervisor at the Partnership for Children of Essex County, which provides intensive case management services to families of this county.
Ms. Matos is a professional member of The American Counseling Association