Carol Silbergeld, LCSW, BCD
Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work with over thirty years of experience in psychotherapy. Carol provides consultation, evaluation, and treatment to individuals, couples, parents, and adolescents. She brings an eclectic, pragmatic approach — drawing on psychodynamic, family systems, and cognitive therapies — tailored to each person's unique needs.
How Carol Can Help
Thirty years of experience across a broad range of clinical and consultative work.
Individuals, Couples & Adolescents
Consultation, evaluation, and treatment for individuals, couples, parents, and adolescents across a wide range of emotional, relational, and developmental concerns.
Co-Parenting & Mediation
Mediation between separated parents to develop cooperative parenting skills, constructive communication, and practical, developmentally appropriate shared parenting plans.
Clinical Supervision
Supervision and consultation for mental health professionals, drawing on decades of experience directing clinical staff and teaching postgraduate Fellows.
Therapeutic Methods
An integrative, evidence-informed practice shaped by decades of clinical training.
Psychodynamic
Exploring the unconscious patterns and early experiences that shape present-day feelings, relationships, and behavior.
Family Systems
Understanding individuals within the context of their family dynamics, communication patterns, and relational roles.
Cognitive
Identifying and reshaping unhelpful thought patterns to bring about lasting, practical change in everyday life.
Experience & Credentials
A distinguished career spanning clinical practice, institutional leadership, teaching, and publication.
Bryn Mawr College
MSS, School of Social Work
Reiss-Davis Child Study Center
25 years — founded the Children of Divorce Clinic and chaired the Social Work Department
New Center for Psychoanalysis
Faculty, Child & Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy program
Hahnemann Hospital & JFCS
Clinical staff in Philadelphia and New York
Publications & Presentations
Author of "Meeting Children on their Own Grounds" and frequent conference speaker for mental health and family law professionals
Who's Who in America
Member of NASW, Society for Clinical Social Work, AFCC, American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work, and the New Center for Psychoanalysis