Beth Donath-Tish, LCSW

Beth Donath-Tish is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York with 23 years of clinical experience. She earned a master’s degree from Fordham University in 1990 and has built a career providing psychotherapy to both teenagers and adults across a range of settings.

Her background includes work in an outpatient psychiatry clinic in New York City, private practice with adult clients, and counseling for adolescents living in an agency group home. Most recently she served on the School Based Support Team for the New York City Department of Education, conducting assessments for students being evaluated for Special Education Services and providing at-risk counseling, mandated counseling, and participation in 504 meetings related to suspensions for students with an Individualized Education Plan (IEP).

She brings a supportive, empathetic, client-centered approach to therapy and emphasizes respect and collaboration. She favors a team-based planning style in which therapist and client identify goals and select therapeutic strategies together. Her clinical methods include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness-Based Therapy, and psychodynamic approaches, applied to concerns such as self-esteem, compassion fatigue, stress, anxiety, relationship and family issues, grief, intimacy matters, eating and body-image issues, anger, depression, coping with life changes, and ADHD. Additional areas of focus include adoption and foster care, chronic illness and disability, commitment and intimacy issues, obsessive-compulsive concerns, panic and seasonal mood shifts, self-harm and self-love work, social anxiety, women’s issues, and workplace challenges.

Beth values an initial live meeting or phone call to begin the therapeutic relationship and to ensure clients feel comfortable with the plan moving forward. She holds her LCSW credential as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, which denotes specialized graduate-level training and clinical licensure in social work.