Leslie S. Tsukroff, MSW, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 30 years of experience providing psychotherapy to children, adolescents, and adults. Since earning her MSW in Clinical Social Work from New York University in 1993, Leslie has been empowering her clients to effect positive changes in their lives — helping them develop practical, healthy ways of coping with life's stressors, achieve their goals, and make the most of their time in therapy.

 

Leslie's clinical foundation was built through immersive early work with children, youth, and families confronting a broad spectrum of adversity — including parental divorce and absence, conflict, abuse, neglect, and violence, financial insecurity and hardship, chronic medical and mental illnesses, generational trauma, substance abuse, neurodiversity, behavioral challenges, and learning differences — often within environments marked by profound instability across multiple dimensions of their lives. This formative work gave her a deep understanding of how early life shapes the way people listen, learn, live, and love — and how those experiences, left unexamined, can continue to influence a person's sense of self, the lens through which they view and navigate the world, and their capacity for meaningful relationships with others and themselves, for joy, and for genuine connection. Today, Leslie's practice is focused on late teens, young adults, and adults working through many of those same issues, whether carried forward from earlier years or emerging anew.

 

Her work spans a wide range of life challenges — from anxiety, depression, and the lasting impact of early trauma, to relationship and familial difficulties, parenting, failure to launch, and executive functioning struggles, to the deeply personal pursuit of a healthier balance between self, family, and career. She also supports clients through significant life transitions, including college and the post-college years, career changes, job loss, illness, divorce, and retirement — those moments when life shifts in ways that can leave even the most resilient person feeling lost and uncertain of their next step.

 

Central to her philosophy is the social work belief that people do not exist in a vacuum — that every individual is part of a larger system, shaped by their culture, environment, history, education, relationships, and family. She also believes deeply that our past experiences — the things we have lived, witnessed, and carried — directly shape how we think, feel, and act in the present. Rather than focusing narrowly on symptoms or behavior, Leslie takes a holistic view of each person, exploring not just who they are today but how they came to be that way, and what becomes possible when those connections are finally understood.

 

Counseling is not a one-size-fits-all process. Leslie provides a safe, supportive, and non-judgmental space in which she takes the time to understand your unique needs, experiences, and personal style — then works collaboratively with you to develop an individualized treatment plan that is truly your own. Drawing from her extensive training and experience, she integrates a range of traditional, experiential, and creative approaches, including:

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• Supportive Counseling

• Relational and Family Systems Theories

• Insight-Oriented Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

• Cognitive-Behavioral Strategies

• Short-Term, Solution-Focused Treatment Methods

• Creative and Expressive Arts Techniques

 

Leslie has maintained a private practice in the Somerville, New Jersey area since 1999, serving her community for more than 27 years. She sees clients in a warm, welcoming office space housed in a historic converted home, where original moldings, a fireplace, a chandelier, and generous natural light streaming through large windows create an atmosphere that feels more like a refuge than a clinical setting. She also provides remote psychotherapy to clients located in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

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