Antioch Counseling & Consulting
Trauma-informed psychotherapy for children, families and adults, plus neuroscience-informed training and consultation for the professionals who care for them. Abby Maitland, MSW, LCSW, LISW-S — NMT Phase III clinician and mentor, licensed in New York, New Jersey and Ohio.
Healing and growth, grounded in the science of the brain.
Abby Maitland, MSW, LCSW, LISW-S
Trauma-informed psychotherapy for children, families, and adults, plus neuroscience-informed training and consultation for the professionals who care for them.
Psychotherapy services. A small private practice offering virtual therapy for children, adolescents, families, and adults, with deep expertise in complex and developmental trauma, including youth resistant to therapy or court-involved. Home-based services available on a limited basis.
Training, consultation & supervision. Keynotes, staff trainings, case consultation, NMT assessment, and clinical supervision, delivered internationally to schools, agencies, universities, and treatment programs.
The Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT). NMT brings key principles of neurodevelopment into clinical problem-solving. With over 15 years working alongside Dr. Bruce Perry as a mentor and trainer, Abby is the only Phase III Clinician and Mentor in the greater NYC area certified by the Neurosequential Network. The NMT Metric Assessment, often colloquially called “brain maps”, offers a structured picture of a child's developmental experiences and current brain organization, guiding truly developmentally-appropriate care.
- Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics — NMT Phase III Mentor, Clinician & Trainer. Certified by the Neurosequential Network, mentored by Dr. Bruce Perry.
- Core Curriculum on Childhood Trauma — Advanced Facilitator & Author, National Child Traumatic Stress Network.
- MSW Professor — Professor in the MSW programs at CUNY/Hunter College NYC and Ramapo College, Mahwah NJ.
- EMDR Trained — EMDR-trained clinician (EMDR HAP)
- Nurtured Heart Approach — Advanced Trainer in the strength-based Nurtured Heart Approach.
- Trauma Consultant — Consulting for The Map Forward Project, Albany, Ohio, and Rutgers University.
- C.B., Client — Abby combines genuine warmth with remarkable insight, creating a space where growth and healing feel possible. Through her work with Dr. Bruce Perry’s Neurosequential Model, she helped me understand not only what I was experiencing but why, giving me the tools to recognize old patterns and create lasting change. I recommend Abby wholeheartedly to anyone looking for a therapist who is both deeply compassionate and exceptionally skilled.
- Deborah Dorfman, Educational Consultant — I have had the privilege of knowing Abby for more than 30 years and am honored to work alongside her on the Map Forward project. Abby is an authentic, compassionate professional whose vision and integrity in social work are reflected in her unwavering commitment to supporting students, educators, and the communities they serve.
- Michael Apke-Starkey, M.Ed — Abby has been an extraordinary mentor, teaching me not only how to better understand and support children who have experienced trauma, but also how to care for the educators carrying the weight of secondary trauma and burnout. Every time I have the opportunity to hear her speak, I know it is time to stop talking and start listening because I am guaranteed to walk away with new insights and a deeper understanding of trauma-informed work. Her knowledge, generosity, and unwavering willingness to help have had a lasting impact on both my professional growth and the work I do every day.
Abby Maitland, LCSW, LISW-S
Abby is a trauma therapist, trainer, and educator with over three decades in social services. She is a Certified NMT Trainer and Phase III Clinician with the Neurosequential Network, a Nurtured Heart Approach trainer, an author and facilitator with the National Child Traumatic Stress Network's Core Curriculum on Childhood Trauma, and an EMDR-trained clinician.
She teaches in the MSW programs at Hunter College and Ramapo College, and has trained clinicians internationally, from the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa to the International NMT Symposium in Alberta, Canada.
LCSW: New York & New Jersey (Supervision Designation, SIFI) · LISW-S: Ohio, (Supervision designation) · MSW, Ohio State University · BA, Antioch College
Community service: Board Member, Bergen County Next Step & Sheltering Program (Christ Church CDC, Hackensack NJ) · Crisis Responder, Trauma Loss Coalition, TLC Central Region.
- Certified Trainer / Phase 3 Clinician, Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (2012–current)
- Certified Trainer, Nurtured Heart Approach (2020)
- Certified Facilitator, Core Curriculum on Childhood Trauma / NCTSN (2019)
- Certified Trainer, ARC (Attachment, Regulation & Competency) Framework (2021)
- EMDR Trained Clinician, EMDR HAP (2019)
- Certified Trainer, Parent Project (2017)
- 2022 – current — Professor, Hunter College School of Social Work, NYC — Instructor of Core Curriculum on Childhood Trauma, Human Development and Social Policy, Diagnostic and Assessment for the Silberman School of Social Work, MSW program.
- 2021 – current — Adjunct Professor, Ramapo College School of Social Work, Mahwah NJ — Instructor of Adolescent and Childhood Development for the MSW program.
- 2021 — Member, Evaluation Advisory Group, National Child Trauma Workforce Institute (NCTWI) — Developing evaluation tools to measure the long-term impact of the Core Curriculum on Childhood Trauma on clinical and organizational practice.
- 2021 – current — NMT Assessor / Consultant, Albany Counseling Services/The Map Forward Project OH — Functional Brain Map assessment for youth involved in Child Protective Services care, foster care, post adoption, etc., identifying developmentally appropriate interventions.
- 2012 – current — Certified NMT Trainer / Clinician, Neurosequential Network — Selected to provide intensive training and monthly mentorship for Phase 2 and 3 clinicians and trainers internationally.
- 2019 – 2022 — Lead Trauma Trainer / Senior Director, Care Plus NJ, Bergen County — Created and implemented trauma-informed trainings across Northern NJ; oversaw a grant department with 20+ active programs; grew the STOP school-violence prevention program by over 400% in six months.
- 2017 – 2018 — Clinical Therapist, Division of Family Guidance, Bergen County NJ — Intensive specialized therapy for adjudicated youth and trauma-informed outpatient services for adolescents and families.
- 2007 – 2017 — Clinical roles across Ohio — Residential and outpatient trauma therapy, juvenile justice and mental health court work, crisis intervention, and program management (The Village Network, Abraxas, Marion County Family Court, BHP).
Therapy & fees
I maintain a small private practice in addition to my work as a trauma trainer and educator. Often, I have a wait list, so please reach out for more information about availability.
My services are available virtually, when appropriate, in person at my home office in Teaneck NJ or home-based on a limited basis.
I bring professional expertise in a warm, personal manner, with a wide variety of approaches tailored to suit your need, not the other way around. I provide individual, couples, family and group counseling and consultation services. If you're considering services for your child, be assured I have extensive experience with children of all ages, including youth resistant to therapy or court involved.
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Insurance & making therapy affordable. Through the online platform Headway, I am in network with numerous insurances as well as providing an excellent system for private pay clients who will be seeking insurance reimbursement. Please reach out for more information.
Sliding fee scale: Available on a limited basis depending on need and circumstances.
Crisis services: Rapid scheduling for youth, adults or families, as availability allows.
Pro bono: In cases of extreme need, such as a local emergency, trauma, or disaster.
NMT Metric Assessment Services. The NMT Metric Assessment is a semi-structured assessment of important developmental experiences and a current picture of brain organization and functioning. It yields estimates of risk, resilience, and brain-mediated strengths and weaknesses to guide ongoing care.
In network with numerous insurances. Sessions are billed through Headway. Full coverage details, and booking, are on my Headway and Psychology Today profiles. Credentialing changes from time to time, and coverage depends on your specific plan — please confirm with Headway or your insurer before your first session.
- United Healthcare Medicare Advantage — NJ · NY · OH
- Providence Health Plan — NJ · NY · OH
- Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey — NJ · NY · OH
- Oscar (Optum) — NJ · NY · OH
- Oxford (Optum) — NJ · NY · OH
- United Healthcare (Optum) — NJ · NY · OH
- Cigna — NJ · NY · OH
- Aetna — NJ · NY · OH
- Anthem EAP – Standard — NY · OH
- Anthem EAP – Expanded — NY · OH
- Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Ohio — OH only
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts — NJ only
- Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield New York (formerly Empire) — NY only
- NMT Metric (full assessment) — 3–5 hours of virtual assessment with youth, family and stakeholders; 3 hours of document review and metric preparation; 1-hour presentation of the completed Metric with extensive personalized recommendations.
- NMT Follow-Up Metric — Recommended at 6 months and 1 year to assess progress. ~3 hours of interviews and updated record review, with presentation of the new Metric and recommendations.
- NMT ER Metric — Rapid snapshot for youth with a recent change in circumstances, placement or functioning. Covers current functioning only, with abridged personalized recommendations.
- Caregiver Challenge Estimator (CCE) — Estimates the 'caregiving burden' and the internal/external resources of a caregiving environment. Excellent for foster, adoptive, kinship and respite placements.
- Mobius Care Tile & Grout Scheduling Tool — A therapeutic-planning tool completed with the family team (~1 hour) to reveal regulatory rhythms and opportunities for developmental scaffolding across a typical week.
- NMT Consultation — Follow-up consultation for families, schools, CPS and service providers after an NMT Metric, to assist with implementation and education.
- The Neuro-GrabBag — Exclusive to Antioch: a collection of fun, developmentally appropriate interventions tailored to a youth’s Brain Map: rhythmic, relational, and somatosensory activities with written guides and video links.
Training, consultation & supervision
Trainings can be provided on a wide variety of topics and personalized to fit the need, such as the level of experience of the audience, lecture style vs. interactive, and length. A small selection is listed below.
Most trainings are individualized for the population being addressed, whether that is educators, clinicians, child welfare staff or another audience. Select a training to read more.
Case consultation. For professionals, youth, and families seeking additional guidance or input regarding a client's needs, without necessarily intending to continue in ongoing services.
Trainings. Educational trainings and presentations on a wide variety of trauma-informed topics, personalized to fit your audience's experience level and preferred format, virtual or in person.
Clinical supervision. For LCSW, LSW, LAC, LPC and interns, individually or in groups of three or more. Minimum 2 sessions per month with a 3-month commitment; virtual or in person.
NMT-based assessment and consultation services. The Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT) is an approach to clinical work that incorporates key principles of neurodevelopment into the clinical problem-solving process. The NMT Metric is the primary tool. It provides a semi-structured assessment of important developmental experiences, good and bad, and a current picture of brain organization and functioning. From it, estimates of relative risk, resilience and brain-mediated strengths and weaknesses can be derived, which aid the clinician in the ongoing therapeutic process.
A track record that travels. Keynotes, conference workshops, and multi-day intensives delivered across the US and internationally. A selection:
- Looking Beyond the Checklist of Adverse Childhood Experiences (Trauma foundations, 2-hour presentation) — How chronic activation of the stress response shapes long-term health, and how to tell a lack of skill from a lack of will.
- Waking the Owl: Helping Brains Learn and Regulate (Trauma foundations, 2-hour presentation) — The Lizard, Dog and Owl metaphor for how stress, trauma and relationships shape learning and behavior.
- Connections Matter (Trauma foundations, 4-hour training) — A community initiative on how caring connections buffer the effects of adverse childhood experiences and trauma.
- The Core Curriculum on Childhood Trauma: Enhancing Trauma-Informed Knowledge Through Interactive Case Conceptualization (Trauma foundations, 1 to 6-hour training) — The NCTSN's case-based curriculum, applying the 12 Core Concepts as lenses on a real case study.
- Understanding and Addressing the Impact of Grief and Loss (Trauma foundations, 1-hour minimum) — Recognizing grief reactions in youth and adults, and what families and schools can do to help.
- The Nurtured Heart Approach (Methodologies & certifications, 6-hour certification) — Howard Glasser's strength-based, relationship-focused methodology for building Inner Wealth and channeling intensity into success.
- Parent Project Group Parent Training (Methodologies & certifications, Senior and Junior programs) — Two award-winning parent-training programs: Senior for destructive adolescent behavior, Junior for children aged 5 to 10.
- Secondary Traumatic Stress (Provider & organizational wellness, 2-hour presentation) — The impact of vicarious and secondary trauma on providers and caregivers, and what organizational wellness planning involves.
- Understanding Vicarious and Secondary Trauma (Provider & organizational wellness, 1-hour minimum) — The nature, dynamics and risks of complex and vicarious trauma, and how to recognize the early signs.
- Strengthening Staff and Promoting Resiliency in Our Organizations (Provider & organizational wellness, 1-hour minimum) — Promoting self and organizational care for school staff, and the role co-regulation plays in a trauma-informed environment.
- Recognizing and Working With Traumatized and Neurodiverse Youth in the School Setting (Schools & student safety, 1-hour minimum) — Spotting possible trauma histories in students, and responding in a trauma-informed way.
- Mitigating the Psychological Effect of Lockdown Drills (Schools & student safety) — Part of school violence prevention and risk assessment development: steadying students through emergency preparedness drills.
- Handling Our Students With Care: Assessment Care Team Development (Schools & student safety, 2-hour minimum) — Creating or fortifying an Assessment Care Team, using evidence-based risk assessment across an integrated, multisystem team.
- Youth Mental Health 101 (Schools & student safety, 1-hour presentation) — The signs and symptoms of the most common mental health concerns in children and adolescents, and how to respond in school.
- Suicide Prevention and Assessment (Schools & student safety, 2-hour presentation) — Recognizing suicidal youth, and how to intervene and respond within the school environment.
- Mental Health in Schools: Engaging Students & Preventing Issues of Concern (Schools & student safety, 1-hour minimum) — Common red flags, early intervention, and Behavior Threat Management planning across schools, clinicians, law enforcement and the courts.
- Say Something: A Sandy Hook Promise Presentation for Students (Schools & student safety, 45 minutes to 1 hour) — For students in grades 6 to 12: recognizing warning signs and reporting concerns to a trusted adult.
- Bullying (Schools & student safety, 1-hour presentation) — For parents: what bullying, harassment and intimidation look like in school, and how to intervene and coordinate with staff.
- Planning and Intervening in Non-Suicidal Self-Harming in the School Environment (Schools & student safety, 1-hour presentation) — Recognizing non-suicidal self-injury and responding within the constraints of regulation, licensure and confidentiality.
- NMT Metric — The most extensive assessment. Includes 3-5 hours of virtual assessment with youth, family and stakeholders, 3 hours of document review and metric preparation, and 1 hour of virtual presentation of the completed Metric with extensive personalized recommendations.
- NMT Follow-Up Metric — Recommended at the 6-month and 1-year mark to assess progress and update recommendations. Includes approximately 3 hours of interviews and updated record review, then presentation of the new Metric and personalized recommendations.
- NMT ER Metric — Recommended for new or previously assessed youth who have recently had a change in circumstances, placement or functioning, where a rapid assessment of immediate needs is required. A snapshot in time of current functioning only, with no developmental risk or historical record review. Presentation of the Metric and personalized abridged recommendations included.
- The Caregiver Challenge Estimator (CCE) — Provides an estimate of the 'caregiving burden' facing a primary caregiver at a given moment in time. It sets out potential resources categorized as “Internal Resources” and “External Resources”, which help estimate the strengths or vulnerabilities of the caregiving environment of a home. The challenge posed by the children is weighed against the resources of the caregiving setting to determine a caregiving “Reserve” score. An excellent tool for assessing foster, adoptive, kinship and respite placements. The estimator can be bundled with an NMT Metric for a child, or done independently as an assessment of a caregiver.
- Mobius Care Tile & Grout Therapeutic Scheduling Tool — The goal of the Tile & Grout approach is not to adhere to a rigid therapeutic schedule, but to promote a comprehensive process of therapeutic planning; thoughtful selection of providers, approaches, therapies and therapists; and a vision of therapy as continuous and contextual. Tracking the typical events of a week reveals the regulatory and developmental baseline for the child, and allows analysis to identify rhythms, opportunities for supporting caregiver and child interactions, and times when various therapeutic modalities or developmental scaffolding can be provided.
Best completed in consultation with the family team, approximately one hour, in order to identify locally available options and services for the youth and family. Recommended at the time of the initial Metric, with quarterly follow-up as needed.
- NMT Consultation — Follow-up consultation services for families, schools, child protective services and other providers after an NMT Metric, to assist with implementation and education.
- Trauma-Informed Supervision — The Neurosequential Model in Reflection and Supervision (NMRS) is an outgrowth of the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics. Supervision is available for social workers, students and mental health professionals.
- Keynote, Passaic County Education/Behavioral Health Partnership Conference (2021)
- Panelist & Trainer, OWLAG (Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls), South Africa
- Trainer/Mentor, NMT Boot Camp, International NMT Symposium, Banff, Canada
- Conference Workshop, Duke University, NC Child Treatment Program (2022)
- Keynotes, CarePlus NJ Speaker Series (2019–2020)
- Conference Speaker, Neuroscience for Hopeful Futures, Ohio (2023)
- Workshop, Ohio Supreme Court Inter-court Conference (2015)
Forms, documents & family resources
Practice forms & documents
Helping children cope with loss. Holidays and meaningful dates can be especially hard for families navigating grief. Children and teens may react to loss in different ways. These NCTSN resources help children, youth, and families cope with challenges related to grief and loss.
- Business Registration — State of NJ Business Registration Certificate.
- Professional Disclosure — Professional Disclosure Form.
- Release Form — Release of information form.
- Supporting Children and Teens During the Holiday Season — Strategies for talking with children about their feelings, keeping the season special, and staying connected to loved ones.
- Helping Children with Traumatic Separation or Grief Related to COVID-19 — How to talk with children about traumatic separation or traumatic grief.
- Holidays, Celebrations and Traumatically Bereaved Children — How meaningful dates can serve as trauma and grief reminders, and why culture matters.
- Childhood Traumatic Grief: Information for Military Parents or Caregivers — How children grieve, signs of Childhood Traumatic Grief, and what caregivers can do.
- Childhood Traumatic Grief: Youth Information Sheet — Helps youth understand grief vs. traumatic grief and what to do to feel better. Also in Russian, Ukrainian, and German.
- The Power of Parenting: After a Parent or Caregiver Dies — Guidance co-developed by parents and professionals on helping children cope after the death of a loved one.
- Pause-Reset-Nourish (PRN) to Promote Wellbeing — A self-care strategy for stressed professionals to replenish wellbeing and resilience. Also in Spanish.
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