Julie Sahlein, LCSW-R is a clinical social worker with more than two decades of experience helping adults, teens, and children through individual, family, couples, and group psychotherapy. She has provided LGBTQ+ affirmative and culturally-attuned treatment and clinical supervision in a variety of settings, including community mental health centers, outpatient hospital clinics and, currently, in her private practice.

Ms. Sahlein incorporates a range of approaches into a fundamentally psychoanalytic framework. Among the strategies she draws on are those from mindfulness practices, CBT, DBT, and motivational interviewing. Ms. Sahlein’s areas of expertise include severe depression, anxiety, identity concerns, family conflict, neurodivergence, and the impact of immigration on individuals and families.

Ms. Sahlein has extensive experience providing group psychotherapy in a variety of settings. Among the groups she has led over two decades of group practice are Anger Management and Chronic Health Conditions groups and, currently, in her private practice, two interpersonal processing groups for adults and one for teens. At Uptown Downtown, Ms. Sahlein runs the Group Therapy supervision group.

Ms. Sahlein has been studying modern analytic group process with senior Center for Group Studies and American Group Psychotherapy Association faculty for over a decade. She has participated in weekend institutes, conferences, and trainings with AGPA, CGS, and EGPS (the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society), of which she is currently a member. Additionally, Ms. Sahlein has served as a guest lecturer on group psychotherapy with masters level students at Hunter College School for Social Work. Her articles have appeared in the Clinical Social Work Journal and Contemporary Psychoanalysis.