KRISTINA SCAGLIONE, LCSW-R
Psychotherapy & Social Work

Kristina received her undergraduate education at both Misericordia University and Northeastern University. She studied Psychology, Philosophy, and Criminology receiving her bachelor of science in Criminal Justice. In Boston, MA, Kristina participated in designing youth gang interventions, LGBTQIA+ mentoring programs, and a LGBTQIA+ suicide hotline for students. Kristina also volunteered for the Human Rights Campaign and participated in social activism for transgender students and their rights on campus. After spending years studying human behavior she spent five years in the private investigation field investigating insurance fraud. While doing this, Kristina kept her personal interests in the human service field and continued mentoring youth in the community. Kristina has traveled around the world and attended several Global Youth Leadership Conferences that streamlined participants’ attention to social and political issues and met with global leaders in hopes to exact change to help citizens afflicted by these issues.

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When Kristina moved to New York, she began volunteering at Hands Across Long Island which at the time was a Personalized Recovery Oriented Services (PROS) program. PROS is a comprehensive recovery-oriented program for individuals with severe and persistent mental illness. While there, Kristina worked as an employment specialist and ran groups to assist people who suffered from mental illness to find work or go back to school and become contributing members of society again.

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Kristina got her masters in Social Welfare at Stony Brook University where she learned about psycho-pharmacology, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Crisis Intervention and worked for Clinical Care Associates for three years working with mandated clients referred to her by Suffolk County Central Islip Courts. She specialized in Anger Management, Power & Control, Sexual Offending Rehabilitation, Sexual Trauma and Recovery, Sexual Paraphilia assessment & intervention, Domestic Violence Intervention, and Couples Counseling. Kristina worked alongside Probation/Parole, New York courts, judges, and neighboring agencies like Long Island Domestic Violence Agency in providing therapy to our mandated clientele and educating the public and courts on successful treatment approaches. At Clinical Care Associates Kristina designed a LGBTQIA+ Domestic Violence intervention/educational program that combined the education she received from Domestic Violence Intervention and applied it to LGBTQIA+ couples and families.

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Kristina treats individuals, adults, older adolescents/young adults, *LGBTQIA+ couples only/ families, and LGBTQIA+ adolescents & adult clients. Kristina was also an Administrator in a residential facility for adults in Babylon, N.Y. where she managed both the house staff and 75 individual geriatric psych adults cases and enforced/upheld procedures dictated by the Department of Health. She has received several continuing education credits in addressing issues that arise in the aging population, hoarding disorders, living with addictions and communicable diseases, aging LGBTQIA+ population, transitional housing for severe/persistently mentally ill population, and managing compulsive behaviors. Kristina is certified in DBT, EFT, Compassion Fatigue, and Advanced Holistic Counseling (a progressive counseling model that combines the absolute best tools from psychotherapy, life coaching, energy healing, science, and spirituality, developed by Beth Miller LCSW, CEC).  Kristina has also received training in Mindfulness-Based Techniques, CBT, Treating Pure O of OCD, Imago Technique treating PTSD/CPTSD, Grief Counseling, and more. Kristina’s approach guides you to take an active role in the process to make good choices that meet your therapeutic goals. She is an LGBTQIA+ affirming therapist and believes in providing a safe space for clients to explore their beliefs without judgment.