Nathaniel Tolbert

Hi, I’m Nate Tolbert, LCSW—a Bronx-raised therapist trained at Hunter College’s Silberman School of Social Work, where I earned my MSW with a focus in clinical practice and further honed my craft during a three-year clinical externship at the Ackerman Institute for the Family, steeping myself in systemic couples and family therapy. In session I bring a warm, collaborative, and trauma-informed style, weaving DBT skills, narrative work, and the Ackerman Relational Model to help individuals, couples, and families communicate better, heal old wounds, and navigate life transitions. Years of facilitating restorative and anti-racist dialogue have made me especially comfortable sitting with the complex ways race, gender, sexuality, and culture shape our stories and relationships, and I invite those conversations as part of the healing process. Licensed in New York and certified in family and couples therapy, my favorite place to be is in the therapy room—walking alongside clients of all ages as they discover new choices, deepen connection, and move toward the lives they want.

As an Ackerman Institute trained family therapist, I dive deep into relationships and family patterns. As a graduate of Hunter College you can expect social observation, issues of oppression, privilege and position to be a part of my frame work. Through it all, I am committed to the therapy process and open to having hard conversations.

As a therapist I work collaboratively with clients to create a warm environment filled with affirmation, challenging self reflection and humor.