Amie Roe, LCSW

My name is Amie, and I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) psychotherapist with an online private practice for people in New York, California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Florida.

I have a strong interest in helping those who struggle with the intense emotions and chaotic relationships characteristic of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). I believe in this work because too often, people with BPD struggle for years before receiving a diagnosis and mental health care that truly helps. Not enough people (including some in the mental health field) know that BPD has a good prognosis and can effectively be treated. More than anything, I want to bring more awareness and hope to those with BPD and their loved ones.

I received my bachelors from Haverford College in 2006 and my Masters in Social Work (MSW) from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010 and have been working as a psychotherapist continuously since then. I’ve been dedicated to furthering my clinical education through supervision and formal study throughout my career. In 2015, I received a postgraduate certificate in intersectional feminist relational psychotherapy from WTCI, an organization renowned for its pioneering work in the treatment of disordered eating through a feminist lens. In 2021, I began studying and receiving supervision in Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT), an evidence based treatment for personality disorders including BPD, through McLean Hospital and The Anna Freud Centre in the UK.

I opened my private psychotherapy practice in 2014 in New York City and in March of 2020, as the Coronavirus pandemic reached the city, I transitioned from working in my midtown Manhattan office to a solely Telehealth practice. I’ve come to love doing therapy online, and am now able to provide services to individuals located anywhere in the five states that I’m licensed in (California, Florida, New Jersey, New York, or Pennsylvania).

Prior to opening my own practice, I studied and received supervision in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and spent three years providing this treatment to children and families affected by trauma, including sexual abuse, physical abuse, and exposure to violence in the community. After I opened my private practice, I continued to hone my clinical skills and began supervising other therapists’ clinical work through employment at community mental health clinics and private group psychotherapy practices. For four years, I taught clinical counseling as an adjunct professor at Pacific College of Health and Science. And in 2017, I began teaching continuing education workshops for mental health professionals.

I’m a white, cisgender woman raised in an upwardly mobile middle class family. I strive to stay aware of how my identity affects the way I move through the world — especially in my role as a therapist. I want to hear all about the ways my clients’ identities help and hinder them as they move through the world, too, as I believe this provides an important context for all of the clinical problems that my clients experience.

In addition to being a therapist, I’m also a mother who moonlights as an improviser. I’ve been performing, teaching, and directing improv since I graduated college in 2006, and I offer workshops to mental health professionals integrating improv skills with clinical social work and mental health practice. I also love knitting, iced tea, Tori Amos, and the Sandman graphic novels.