Ilona Schwartzberg, LCSW

Ilona Schwartzberg is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), a professional credential that indicates she is licensed to provide clinical social work services. With 31 years of experience, she has extensive experience in hospital settings and as a dialysis social worker, supporting people through chronic illness, medical uncertainty, and the daily realities of life on treatment. Earlier in her career she worked on hospital units doing discharge planning and connecting people to community resources, often serving as an advocate, mediator, and change agent while providing talk therapy alongside practical supports.

She specializes in working with adults through the elderly, focusing on generalized anxiety, social anxiety, relationship concerns, life transitions and losses common in later life, grief and bereavement, and strengthening self-esteem. Her practice centers on partnering with people who want to make real, sustainable changes and build practical coping skills.

Her therapeutic toolbox includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, client-centered humanistic approaches, mindfulness, and traditional talk therapy. She treats the whole person by attending to mental health symptoms as well as lifestyle factors such as movement, breathing, and social connection. In sessions she explores evidence-based strategies and encourages healthy routines like walking, swimming or water aerobics, yoga and stretching, breathing and mindfulness practices, soothing music such as ocean or rain sounds, attention to nutrition, and socialization - all of which support emotional healing and progress toward goals.

Her style is warm, collaborative, and strength-based. She combines coaching and therapeutic support to help people build skills, meet challenges, and recognize each step forward.