Abigail Burd, LCSW

Abby was my clinical supervisor at City College Mental Health Counseling Center, and she is awesome! She gets what is tripping up your therapeutic process and she knows how to help you get it. I would take little tid bits she gave me back into session and discover that that woman is crazy accurate with her advise. Sessions would open right up when I followed her suggestions. I never did figure out how she could hit the mark so precisely after hearing me discuss a client for 5 minutes. But she did! Over and over again. Very efficient! We would churn through a lot of cases in our hour, and I got everything I needed to go back and provide all kinds of awesome support to my clients. Learned a lot about myself too! Abby is great at holding up a mirror to help you understand your own emotional investment in working with your clients and that goes a long way in setting aside counter transference and improving the quality of your rapport with clients!

I attended a postpartum support group with Abby after the birth of my daughter. Over the course of the few months I attended Abby was a wonderful presence who helped keep me centered and calm. She provided a great place for us new moms to vent, share, and remember what was positive about our new role as «momma.» She also did a wonderful job of connecting members and encouraging us to meet up outside of group. I ended up with a great cohort of other mama friends who are my continuing support now that I no longer attend the postpartum group. Thank you, Abby for being awesome! I would highly recommend her services to any new mother in need.

I can’t say enough wonderful things about Abby. She led a new mom support group that I attended weekly for several months, where she helped ease my transition into parenthood (along with all of its joys and stresses). She facilitated great group discussions in a format that made it very easy to share and be heard. By encouraging us to meet up outside the meeting, she helped me find an awesome support network of ‘mom friends’ (that I still chat with every day!)
Abby is genuine, caring, and professional. I am so grateful to have her as a resource, and would recommend her to anyone who is experiencing stress, anxiety, or needs help with a life transition – especially new parents!

I subscribe to Abigail’s blog even though I have not been a client for an individual session. I’m currently pregnant for the first time. Abigail gives great advice on keeping healthy (pregnant or not) by reducing stress, keeping balanced, and ways to self-​care like GRAPES (look it up!) I appreciate that she is also a mom herself so she can relate as well as having the academic background. She also has had a really good giveaway but I didn’t win… maybe next time!