Trauma Group Summer 2026
Phone (973) 544-8617
Email meredithstrausssocialworker@gmail.com

Our Therapeutic Services

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Individual Therapy

Individual Therapy

Light Street Psychotherapy offers
Family Therapy

Family Therapy

Working from a strength...
Couples Therapy: Healing the Partnership

Couples Therapy: Healing the Partnership

  • Emotion Focused Therapy
  • Intimacy from the Inside Out
  • DBT for Couples
  • Gottman
 EMDR

EMDR

Eye Movement Desensitization...
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Internal Family Systems (IFS)

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

The Internal Family Systems Model...
Treatment for Chronic Pain

Treatment for Chronic Pain

About 50 million adults in the U.S are living with chronic pain.
Yoga Psychology

Yoga Psychology

Yoga Psychology (YP) is a holistic approach designed to balance the mind, body, and spirit. It views the human experience as a series of fluctuations...
Play Therapy

Play Therapy

  •  Play-based and expressive (Art, Music, Sand Tray)
  • Psychodynamic
  • Mindfulness and skills-based
  • Family systems

Meet Our Team

Meredith Strauss, LCSW

Meredith Strauss, LCSW

Founder of Light Street Psychotherapy

At Light Street Psychotherapy, we work with adults, adolescents, and their families who suffer from Trauma, anxiety, depression, Dissociative Identity Disorder, divorce, relationship issues, and anger management. Meredith’s therapeutic approach helps clients learn the skills to stay centered in a stressful and fast paced world. She finds appropriate solutions to…
Gina Totino, LCSW

Gina Totino, LCSW

Partner at Light Street Psychotherapy

Gina Totino, LCSW, is passionate about guiding her clients toward balance, clarity, and a deeper sense of peace. With a foundation in mindfulness and emotional intelligence, she takes an integrative, evidence-based approach tailored to everyone’s unique experiences and inner world. Gina believes that behavior is our first language; she works…
Randi Gelfand, LCSW

Randi Gelfand, LCSW

Team

Randi Gelfand is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the state of New Jersey and earned her Masters degree in Social Work at Rutgers University. She has experience helping adults with a wide range of mental and emotional health issues including relationship issues, parenting concerns, life transitions, mood and anxiety…
Kathleen Murphy, LPC

Kathleen Murphy, LPC

Team

Kathy Murphy is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of New Jersey and earned her Master’s degree in Counseling from Northwestern University. She works with individuals in a warm, empathic, nonjudgmental manner to help those who are coping with difficult life circumstances, are burdened by negative thinking and low…
Donna Scro Samori, LCSW

Donna Scro Samori, LCSW

Team

Donna Scro Samori is a New Jersey Licensed Social Worker who graduated with honors from Rutgers University with a Masters in Social Work and with a Certificate of Violence Against Women and Children. She brings a broad range of life experience to her work and is passionate about meeting her…
Abigail Cooper Marshall, LCSW

Abigail Cooper Marshall, LCSW

Team

Abigail Marshall, LCSW, is an Internal Family Systems Level 3 trained psychotherapist, with advanced training in the neurobiology of traumatic stress and polyvagal nervous system regulation. Drawing on dynamic clinical experience, she offers a unique blend of relational play therapy, attachment-based approaches, and process art. She has a special ability…
Hunter Tarvin, LCSW

Hunter Tarvin, LCSW

Team

Hunter Tarvin, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in New Jersey and earned her MSW at N.Y.U. She is deeply passionate about supporting individuals on their paths toward healing, growth, and greater self-understanding. Grounded in presence, empathy, and genuine curiosity, Hunter believes every behavior is rooted in emotion and…
Tammie Maitlin, LSW

Tammie Maitlin, LSW

Team

Tammie Maitlin obtained her masters degree in Social Work from NYU Silver School. She has nearly a decade of clinical experience working with a wide range of clinical populations. She spent years working in nursing homes and hospices, bringing immense compassion and thoughtful care to elderly patients and their families.…
Alyssa Dordoni, LAC

Alyssa Dordoni, LAC

Team

Alyssa Dordoni is a Licensed Associate Counselor (LAC) in the state of New Jersey. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a minor in Sociology from Rutgers University and her Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Liberty University. Alyssa offers both in-person sessions office and…

🛡️️Insurance

Light Street Psychotherapy does not contract with any insurance companies.
Services are provided on a private pay basis, and therefore, we are considered “out of network.”
Most health insurance plans provide some form of coverage for outpatient psychotherapy.

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What Our Clients Say

-SF Union County, NJ Adult

"EMDR has not even fully begun yet and I am already feeling a sense of empowerment which motivates me to better care for my well being. Because therapy in the past has been an unsuccessful and a waste of money. I have learned more in a few months with Meredith than I have in almost 10 years of on/off psychotherapy. I love the waiting room, with the tranquil music, and warm inviting vibe. Keep up what you are doing!!!"

Legal Guardian of Adolescent

"As a family member and a patient, therapy has helped us see problems and issues more clearly in a better light. Therapy is beneficial we get more insight and have learned how to approach issues and problems in different ways. Resolutions can come!!! We are all works in progress. Meredith always sees us in a timely manner and is easy to talk to. Roselle Park, NJ"

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