The Women's Therapy Service of Montclair, LLC


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Ms. Barbara Reese, MSW, LCSW, MPS, BC-DTR, is the Owner and Director of The Women's Therapy Service. Ms. Reese is a State Licensed Clinical Social Worker and approved Clinical Supervisor. She has been practicing in Montclair since 1995. She utilizes a psychodynamic approach to individuals, both men and women, child/family treatment, and women's mental health.

Ms. Reese is an experienced Eating Disorder Professional and treats the full-range of eating disorders - Anorexia, Bulimia, Compulsive/Binge Eating Disorders - in men and women, boys and girls. She developed The INNER IMAGE Program for Eating and Body Image Concerns which offers short-term and long-term treatment groups for adolescents and adults, held at the Women's Therapy Service. Ms. Reese has lectured widely on the prevention and treatment of eating disorders and on the psychology of body image - in schools, national/international conferences, and for athletic forums.

She has a non-profit affiliation with A.N.A.D., a national non-profit organization for the advocacy for eating disorders. Ms. Reese is the Coordinator of ANAD of Northern New Jersey, which is a monthly support group held at The Saint Barnabas Ambulatory Care Center in Livingston. She coordinates teams of Professional and Recovered Leaders who facilitate these multi-family support groups, that are free and open to the public. This support group site was recognized in the Forum for the Academy of Eating Disorders Journal, in 2009.
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She is an experienced Child/Family Therapist and treats children from toddlers to teens, with play therapy, expressive arts therapy, and talk therapy. She has worked in Child/Adolescent Psychiatry at leading teaching hospitals in New York City, such as Mount Sinai Medical Center and Beth Israel Medical Center. She sees children starting at age 2 for a variety of developmental issues - such as eating, depression, and anxiety. The treatment always includes Parent Guidance. Her expertise with adolescents includes eating disorders, self-harm, anxiety, and depression.

Ms. Reese has extensive experience with Grief/Loss Counseling. She works with children and families who are also supported by grief organizations such as Rainbows, Good Grief, and C.O.P.S – Concerns of Police Survivors, for families affected by a parent/spouse killed in the line of duty. She is in the process of becoming a Collaborative Law Professional and utilizes this constructive approach in counseling children and parents in their journey through Separation and Divorce process.

Throughout her professional career, Ms. Reese has utilized the Arts in Psychotherapy. Her graduate degrees are in Expressive Arts Therapy from Pratt Institute (MPS, 1987) and Clinical Social Work from New York University (MSW, 1993). She is an experienced Dance/Movement Therapist, Board Certified at the Supervisory level (DTR- BC). This mind-body blend is a core foundation in the treatment orientation for all of her clinical work.

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Ms. Tara Dublanica, MSW, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Staff Clinician for the Women's Therapy Service of Montclair, treating both children and adults. She has been a practicing social worker for almost a decade in a variety of mental health settings including hospitals, day treatment programs, and schools. She has developed her own successful blend of Psychodynamic and Cognitive Behavioral Treatment approaches, that allows one to move forward and heal.

At the Women's Therapy Service, Ms. Dublanica sees children and adolescents struggling with depression, anxiety, divorce, grief, and trauma. Outside of this practice, she holds a position at an established day school for emotionally fragile children. There also, she conducts weekly insight-oriented individual, group, and family treatment.

She was also brought on staff here for her skills in treating the full range of eating disorders - Anorexia, Bulimia, and Binge Eating Disorder, in both men and women, teens and adults. She holds a position of Professional Group Facilitator for the Eating Disorder Support Groups of A.N.A.D. of Northern NJ. Her original training was at Somerset Medical Centers Eating Disorder Unit when she working collaboratively with psychiatrists, nurses, and dietitians.

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Ms. Suzanne Farkas, MFA, MSW, LSW, is a Licensed Social Worker and Staff Clinician specializing in older teens, adults, and families. Ms. Farkas comes to the Women's Therapy Service with a firm history of commitment to women's mental and medical health care concerns, in both her work as a community Actor/Director and as a Social Worker. As a clinician she combines flexibility and compassion with clinical skill, for those challenged by loss and grief; anxiety and depression; divorce and separation, adoption, and medical illness. At the Women's Therapy Service, Ms. Farkas is continuing to develop a specialization in eating disorders and maternal mental health. She has an eclectic approach that combines psychodynamic, interpersonal, and family therapy. She creatively designs an clinical approach that emphasizes her clients' strengths and highest capacity for coping.

Ms. Farkas is a Professional Co-Facilitator for the monthly Eating Disorder Support Groups held at the Saint Barnabas Ambulatory Care Center in Livingston, sponsored by A.N.A.D. of Northern NJ. Here she works with individuals, families in an intergenerational context, facing the challenges of helping a loved one recover from an eating disorder. She is currently in the Adoption Certificate Program at Rutgers receiving training in adoption related issues that affect individuals across a lifetime. She holds masters degrees in both Theatre Arts, specializing in directing (Roosevelt University, 1997), and Clinical Social Work (Rutgers, 2011).

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