Raymond Rodriguez, Rev., MSW, LCSW
Raymond Rodriguez, LCSW-R, Rev., is an Afro-Latino Clinical Social Worker with over twenty years of experience in working with community-based programs. He received his Social Work degree from Columbia University School of Social Work. He is a family therapist with clinical interests in the areas of immigration, diversity, LGBTQ empowerment, spirituality, and working with marginalized communities. In the last decade he has become a trauma specialist assisting clients with complex psychological trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. He is certified in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). He has extensive training and practice in family systems therapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems, and Emotionally Focused Therapy.
Raymond has served as a counselor faculty at Hostos Community College of the City University of New York; is faculty and a member of the Executive Committee of the Trauma Studies Center of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy; and is faculty at the Integrative Trauma Studies Program of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. He has served as faculty with the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute and as an Adjunct Lecturer at Columbia University School of Social Work and Smith College School of Social Work. He formerly served on the Boards of the National Association of Puertorrican and Hispanic Social Workers and the No More Fear Foundation. He lives in Westchester, NY (on unceded Lakota lands) with his partner, son, and dogs.