Christy M. Larkin, LCSW-R, RN

Christy M. Larkin, LCSW-R, RN, is a licensed psychotherapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker–R, and Registered Nurse with nearly three decades of experience in behavioral health, clinical social work, and nursing. Based in Goshen, New York, she operates a thriving private practice where she provides compassionate, evidence-informed psychotherapy to individuals, couples, families, and groups across the lifespan. Larkin began her professional career in 1996 after earning a Master of Social Work in Clinical Social Work from New York University, following bachelor's degrees in social work from Dominican College and nursing from New York University. Her clinical expertise includes trauma-informed care, crisis intervention, cognitive behavioral therapy, grief counseling, palliative care, and medical social work, with a strong focus on helping clients build resilience, deepen self-awareness, and achieve meaningful, lasting change. Larkin's career spans a wide range of clinical settings that have shaped her holistic approach to mental and physical health. She began at Astor Counseling Services, where she worked with sexually abused youth and adolescents in a sex offender treatment program, developing specialized treatment plans and providing individual, family, and group psychotherapy. She later joined Rehabilitation Support Services, delivering multisystemic therapy designed to stabilize families and prevent out-of-home placements for delinquent youth through intensive community-based interventions. Expanding her clinical expertise into healthcare, Larkin served as both a clinical social worker and registered nurse caring for medically complex patients throughout Harlem, Inwood, and Washington Heights while also taking on consulting and supervisory responsibilities. During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, she partnered with colleague Wendy Keller at Montefiore St. Luke's Hospital in Newburgh, New York, providing crisis support, psychological assessments, debriefing sessions, and mental health services for frontline healthcare professionals experiencing anxiety, burnout, and depression. Today, after years in both group and solo practice, she continues to lead her independent practice while further advancing her expertise through a 10-month trauma certification program with the Trauma Research Foundation's Certificate Program in Traumatic Stress Studies.

Committed to lifelong learning, professional leadership, and community service, Larkin is an active member of the National Association of Social Workers and has volunteered with organizations including Girls on the Run and fundraising initiatives supporting the American Diabetes Association, volunteered for years in her daughter's school programing, and has served on multiple nonprofit organizations in her home town of Cornwall, NY. She has also contributed to the profession as a conference presenter, clinical supervisor, mentor, and co-author of Group Work with Adolescent Offenders in a Community Based Setting. Larkin credits much of her professional growth to the guidance of mentors Wendy Keller LCSW-R, Judy Lessinger LCSW-R, and Janet O'Shea LCSW-R, whose influence helped shape her philosophy of compassionate, client-centered care. She firmly believes that effective clinicians must engage in their own personal growth and self-reflection, recognizing that authentic healing begins with a commitment to understanding oneself while serving others with empathy, integrity, and clinical excellence.

Outside of her professional work Christy lives in Cornwall on Hudson, NY with her husband Roland and their two daughters, Madeline and Catherine. It is from her daughters that Christy draws her deepest inspiration, attributing her work values, commitment, and a loving dedication to excellence to her desire to model strength and purpose for them. Backed by her family roles as wife, daughter, sister, her family remains the heart of her professional drive.