Our Therapists
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Marcy Pollitt
LCSWR, SEP, EMDR, PP
Owner of Joyfully Becoming Therapy
(845) 247-4357
Marcy has adventured through her life with the goal of discovering ways to live with resilience. Marcy has sought healing modalities that encourage creativity, curiosity. and self compassion. Through this journey Marcy has created her own alchemy of intuitive insight and wisdom. This alchemy enables the deepest healing of hearts and minds by untangling the knots of pain and trauma and enlivening the reimagined possibility of living with resilience, hope and joy.
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Pam Perkins
MFA, LCSWR, SEP, IFS I
(845) 875-4346
Pam@joyfullybecomingtherapy.com
In 2016, Pam established a Child and Family Psychotherapy Practice in Saugerties, N.Y. She found that working primarily with parents created the most positive change in the family, the most quickly. An LCSW and certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, she now specializes in “Somatic Attachment Parent Therapy” and “Somatic Attachment Based Classroom” Trainings for Teachers. These provide parents and teachers powerful attachment strategies as well as methods to regulate their nervous systems while helping children regulate theirs.
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Joy Lofstrand
LMSW, SEP, LMT, RCST®
(914)466-4606
Joy, an LMSW and licensed bodyworker (LMT), merges psychological and body centered emphasis with extensive training in mind-body integration. As a Social Worker, she started her work at Beth Israel Hospital working with individuals suffering from addiction. Seeking to bring together more body/mind connection, Joy sought out various integrative trainings.
She has background training from the Somatic Experience Trauma Institute (SETI), Hakomi Institute a body-based psychotherapy, DARe training in working with our unique attachment styles, and Barbara Brennan School of Healing, where she taught for 12 years. Passionate about empowering clients through trauma recovery and embodiment, she joined JoyfullyBecoming Group in 2021.
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Isabella Christodoulou
LCSW
(504) 799-9896
Isabella has had the privilege of being a social worker for over 30 years. Those with whom she has worked have taught her much about courage and grace. She has been employed primarily in the nonprofit world, with people who suffer from the disease of addiction. She has worked with homeless youth and students in public school settings. Her career has taken her to the East Village of NYC, to south London, and to Berlin, Germany where she designed and taught seminars in patient communication to medical students preparing to join Doctors Without Borders. She has loved her work. But of all the opportunities she has had, the one for which she is most grateful is her initial training and internship at Charity Hospital in New Orleans.
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Marcy Pollitt
LCSWR, SEP, EMDR, PP
Owner of Joyfully Becoming Therapy
(845) 247-4357
Marcy has adventured through her life with the goal of discovering ways to live with resilience. Marcy has sought healing modalities that encourage creativity, curiosity. and self compassion. Through this journey Marcy has created her own alchemy of intuitive insight and wisdom. This alchemy enables the deepest healing of hearts and minds by untangling the knots of pain and trauma and enlivening the reimagined possibility of living with resilience, hope and joy.
Having been challenged with her own traumas, being on all sides of cancer, as witness, family loss, and personal experience, Marcy has found her resilience song. "What doesn’t undo us makes us stronger”. By sharing her courage, curiosity and compassion with her clients she co creates hope in the therapeutic process. She teaches the tools that neuroscience offers to provided concrete skills that enable moving through traumas into growth and renewed confidence in the power of resilience and change.
With 30 plus years of studying the creative modality of Psychodrama, she enables her clients to put their life story into action, embodying the moments of wounds and healing. Marcy facilitates her clients to move through the re-creation of their life narratives with this immensely adaptive and resourceful treatment modality. Psychodrama offers limitless ways to support clients in their self exploration and discovery of new possibilities. Marcy is a graduate of the Hudson Valley Psychodrama Institute.
In search of healing her own traumas, Marcy discovered deep healing through Somatic Experiencing (SE). Marcy has spent 15+ years studying with and assisting Dr. Peter Levine the creator of SE, in addition to assisting many of the best SE trainers, including Raja Selvam, Ariel Giarretto, Berns Galloway, etc. She is certified to assist and provide sessions at all levels of SE Training, as well as part of the SE Sacred Restoration Retreat team providing SE informed Psychodrama for participants. She has studied Raja’s Developmental Trauma model, Ariel's Full Embodiment, Healing Sexual Trauma, and Diane Pool-Heller's Dynamic Attachment Re-Patterning Experience trainings, as well as completing Dr Levine's Eye of the Needle Training which works with near death experiences.
Through her commitment to learning, Marcy has alchemized healing practices that heal the traumas as well as providing skills for enabling the embodiment of new ways of being the deepest truth of each persons potential. This alchemy enables the deepest healing of hearts and minds by untangling the knots of trauma and enlivening the embodiment of resilience, hope and joy. Joyfully Becoming is her life motto, which she shares with generosity and compassion.
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Pam Perkins
MFA, LCSWR, SEP, IFS I
845-875-4346
Pam@joyfullybecomingtherapy.com
Previously a psychotherapist for children and families in community mental health clinics and schools, in 2016, Pam established a Child and Family Psychotherapy Practice. She found that working primarily with PARENTS created the most positive change in the family, the most quickly. An LCSW and certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, she now specializes in “Somatic Attachment Parent Therapy” and “Somatic Attachment Based Classroom” Trainings for Teachers. These provide parents and teachers powerful attachment strategies as well as methods to regulate their nervous systems while helping children regulate theirs. Specific somatic techniques are used to bring the parent/teacher and the child out of a fight, flight or freeze state, and back to regaining their composure, experiencing attachment and re-connecting. This physiological framework helps parents/teachers understand and work with what's happening underneath both their own and the childs’ behavior rather than seeing either as “good or bad”.
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Joy Lofstrand
LMSW, SEP, LMT, RCST®
(914)466-4606
Joy, an LMSW and licensed bodyworker (LMT), merges psychological and body centered emphasis with extensive training in mind-body integration. As a Social Worker, she started her work at Beth Israel Hospital working with individuals suffering from addiction. Seeking to bring together more body/mind connection, Joy sought out various integrative trainings.
She has background training from the Somatic Experience Trauma Institute (SETI), Hakomi Institute a body-based psychotherapy, DARe training in working with our unique attachment styles, and Barbara Brennan School of Healing, where she taught for 12 years. Passionate about empowering clients through trauma recovery and embodiment, she joined JoyfullyBecoming Group in 2021.
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Isabella Christodoulou
LCSW
(504) 799-9896
Isabella has had the privilege of being a social worker for over 30 years. Those with whom she has worked have taught her much about courage and grace. She has been employed primarily in the nonprofit world, with people who suffer from the disease of addiction. She has worked with homeless youth and students in public school settings. Her career has taken her to the East Village of NYC, to south London, and to Berlin, Germany where she designed and taught seminars in patient communication to medical students preparing to join Doctors Without Borders. She has loved her work. But of all the opportunities she has had, the one for which she is most grateful is her initial training and internship at Charity Hospital in New Orleans.
Isabella is a graduate of the Hudson Valley Psychodrama Institute. Her training there is what has prevented burnout, for that is where she discovered the deep healing of the action methods developed by JL Moreno and his wife Zerka Moreno. She especially loves the concept that there is no such thing as resistance. Instead, the Morenos framed it this way: The protagonist or client, is just not warmed up and it is the job of the director or therapist, to provide safety and respect the wisdom of the individual and the group.
Some years ago, Isabella left New Orleans to be closer to her family. It was the grief she felt about leaving that city and the young people she loved that became the motivation for the novel she is currently revising. She has since returned to her beloved New Orleans and has launched Life as Art Studio where she specializes in working with creatives who are struggling with a particular project or perhaps even experiencing conflict with their identity as an artist.
She offers MUSE workshops where she works with writers, dancers, choreographers, sculptors, painters and actors. In collaboration with the New Orleans Musicians Clinic, Isabella is seeing several musicians who have been devastated by the effects of the pandemic. New Orleans without live music was heartbreaking.
But the beat went on…. And the beat goes on!
