Ivy specializes in relationship counseling and
has over 20 years of experience leading women on a
path toward deep personal growth. From dating to engagement to
marriage to older adulthood, Ivy helps women with every
step of their relationship journey. She helps women work
through a wide variety of concerns, such as relationship
ambivalence, patterns of choosing the wrong partners,
relationship stress and distress, relationship conflict, intimacy
issues, and dating issues. Ivy coaches women
to date smart and find their most compatible
partners. She supports women in challenging relationships with
hope and tools to breathe new life into the
relationships. Ivy is especially skillful at helping
women develop a strong sense of autonomy and personal
empowerment. She also has specialized knowledge of working with
clients with a religious background, in which their faith plays an
important role in their relationships. Other areas of work include
sexual trauma, attachment trauma, infertility, pregnancy
loss, parenting issues, grief and bereavement, anxiety, depression,
and stress.
Ivy holds a
certificate in Advanced Trauma Treatment from the
prestigious Ferentz
Institute . She completed an extensive
certificate course in
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) . She
is a sought-after public speaker on issues of women's
empowerment and building and maintaining healthy
relationships.
She received her Master's Degree in Social Work from Yeshiva University , in New York. She received her Bachelor's Degree at University at Albany-State University of New York .
She lives in Silver Spring with her husband and their four children.
- Licensed to practice in Maryland under Laura Greer, LCSW-C