Ellen Blaufox

Ellen Blaufox, LCSW-R is Clinical Director of Linden Hill RTF (Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services) the largest psychiatric, residential treatment facility in New York State. She has been working with adolescents, adults and families who live with chronic stress, histories of trauma and mental illness for almost twenty years. Ms. Blaufox is a clinician and a professor (NYU Graduate School, Iona College). Ms. Blaufox is a well-respected authority on such topics as self-abuse, trauma, depression, self-care and creating culture change. In addition, she is a contributor to Mary Pender Greene’s chapter “Family and Children’s’ Services” in the publication Encyclopedia of Social Work with Groups. Ms. Blaufox is in private practice in Westchester County. She is a graduate of Skidmore College, NYU Silver Graduate School of Social Work and Circle in the Square Theater Summer School and NYSSA (Julliard).