As a New York state-licensed mental health counselor (LMHC), Audra DeNicola uses a Relational Psychodynamic approach, incorporating empirically-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and Mindfulness techniques to treat a range of clients. Audra is also trained in Maternal Mental Health through the Seleni Institute to serve perinatal and postpartum clients.
Audra is the former Clinical Supervisor of the Renfrew Center of New York, a national eating disorder clinic, where she oversaw clinical operations, supervised teams of therapists, and treated patients with anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorders. As a leading therapist at Renfrew, Audra also worked with patients' families to address underlying concerns, improve communication, and promote healing within the entire family unit.
As a New York state-licensed clinician, Audra also draws from her experience counseling adolescents and adults with complex trauma histories and persistent mental health diagnoses in community health clinic settings in Philadelphia and Brooklyn. Her clinical career began in 2007, treating veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Boston.
Most recently, Audra has contributed to PsychCentral.com with essay, “Accepting the Reality of COVID-19”. Previously, she has lectured at Columbia University and Vassar College and been featured as an expert on CNN's The Daily Share on HLN and in US News and World Report.
Audra obtained her B.A. in Politics from Mount Holyoke College and her M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Boston College.