A growing group practice for women in New York & New Jersey.

Andrea Dogostiano is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and the founder of Eden Root Therapy, a growing online group practice serving women throughout New York and New Jersey. Her work sits at the intersection of clinical rigor and deep human warmth. She built this practice for the women she kept meeting — the ones holding everything together at work, at home, and inside their own bodies, quietly wondering if there was another way to live that didn't require running on empty.

Andrea earned her undergraduate degree from Brown University, where she studied Psychology and Sociology and became fascinated by the way individual mental health is shaped by systems, families, culture, and gender. She went on to earn her Master of Social Work from Columbia University's School of Social Work, one of the country's leading clinical training programs, with a concentration in Health, Mental Health, and Disabilities. Her clinical training took her into hospitals, community mental health centers, and permanent supportive housing — settings where she worked alongside people navigating trauma, chronic illness, severe mental illness, homelessness, and complex loss. Those years taught her something she still brings into every session: therapy has to meet the whole person, not just the symptom on paper.

Andrea is licensed as an LCSW in both New York and New Jersey, which means she can see clients living anywhere in those states — from Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx to Westchester County, the Hudson Valley, Long Island, Jersey City, Hoboken, Montclair, Princeton, and everywhere in between. Because Eden Root Therapy is a fully virtual practice, geography no longer has to determine whether you get to work with a therapist who truly understands your life. You can meet from a quiet corner of your apartment during a lunch break, from your bedroom after the baby is finally asleep, or from a parked car between meetings. Telehealth removes the commute — not the depth of the work.

Specialties and clinical focus

Andrea's clinical work centers on the emotional lives of high-functioning women — the women who look fine from the outside and feel exhausted, anxious, or unrecognizable to themselves on the inside. Her core specialties include anxiety therapy, burnout and stress management, postpartum and maternal mental health, therapy for women, identity and life transitions, and relationship and boundary work. Within those areas, she frequently supports clients through generalized and health anxiety, panic, perfectionism, people-pleasing, career burnout, matrescence, postpartum anxiety and rage, intrusive thoughts, grief, and the quieter identity shifts that come with new roles, new cities, and new decades of life.

Trauma-informed, evidence-based, and human first

Everything Andrea does is trauma-informed. That is not a buzzword in her office — it is a way of practicing. It means she pays close attention to your nervous system, moves at a pace your body can tolerate, prioritizes choice and consent, and treats symptoms as intelligent responses to something you lived through rather than as flaws to fix. She integrates cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills, mindfulness, attachment theory, somatic awareness, and parts-informed work into a framework that stays flexible enough to fit your real life. You will not be handed a worksheet and asked to complete it while your world is on fire. You will be met, listened to, and given tools you can actually use in the middle of a real Tuesday.

Maternal mental health and matrescence

Maternal mental health is one of Andrea's deepest specialties. She works with women through fertility struggles, pregnancy, birth recovery, and every stage of postpartum — including the years no one warned them about. She holds space for postpartum anxiety, postpartum rage, intrusive thoughts, birth trauma, feeding grief, and the identity earthquake known as matrescence: the psychological, hormonal, and relational reorganization that happens when a woman becomes a mother. Motherhood in New York and New Jersey often comes with a specific texture — demanding careers, expensive childcare, long commutes, small apartments, family far away, and the pressure to appear grateful for a life that also feels crushing. Andrea does not ask mothers to perform gratitude. She helps them tell the truth, and then helps them build a life that feels honest and livable inside of that truth.

Burnout, anxiety, and the high-achieving woman

Many of Andrea's clients are the kind of women other people rely on. They are attorneys, physicians, executives, founders, teachers, therapists, and creatives. They have built careers and families that look, from the outside, like a win. Inside, they are white-knuckling through the week, sleeping poorly, snapping at people they love, and quietly wondering when they last felt like themselves. This is where burnout and chronic anxiety live — in the gap between how you're performing and how you actually feel. Andrea helps her clients close that gap without asking them to blow up their lives. Together, you'll examine the beliefs and patterns that fuel over-functioning, learn to regulate your nervous system in real time, set boundaries that hold without guilt, and rebuild an internal sense of safety that isn't dependent on being everything to everyone.

Identity transitions and the seasons of a woman's life

A great deal of Andrea's work happens at the thresholds: leaving a career, entering motherhood, ending a relationship, moving cities, watching children grow up, losing a parent, or waking up one day and realizing the life you built no longer fits. These identity transitions can be quietly disorienting even when nothing is technically wrong. Andrea helps women grieve the versions of themselves they are outgrowing, listen for what actually matters now, and take steady, values-aligned steps into who they are becoming — without needing to have it all figured out first.

A holistic approach — mind, body, and lifestyle

Andrea is also a Certified Holistic Health Coach through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and that training shapes how she thinks about mental health. She understands that sleep, movement, nutrition, hormones, relationships, and screen time all live in the same body as your anxiety and burnout — and pretending otherwise makes therapy less effective. She won't prescribe a supplement or a diet, but she will gently ask about the whole picture, because a nervous system that hasn't slept in three years cannot be talked out of feeling unsafe. Her holistic approach honors the biology of what you're carrying while helping you make emotional and psychological sense of it.

Telehealth across New York and New Jersey

Eden Root Therapy is a fully virtual practice. Andrea offers online therapy to women living anywhere in New York State and New Jersey through a secure, HIPAA-compliant telehealth platform. That includes New York City (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island), Westchester County, Rockland, Long Island, the Hudson Valley, and upstate — as well as Hudson County (Jersey City, Hoboken), Essex, Bergen, Morris, Union, Middlesex, Monmouth, and beyond. Virtual therapy means you can protect your energy for the work itself instead of spending it on transit. It also means you can be seen by a therapist who genuinely specializes in what you're navigating, even if she doesn't have an office on your block.

What it feels like to work with Andrea

Andrea's style is warm, direct, and quietly steady. She is not the therapist who nods silently for fifty minutes, and she is not the therapist who hands you a script. She listens closely, reflects what she hears, gently names the patterns she notices, and offers tools when they'll actually help. She believes deeply that you are the expert on your own life — her job is to help you remember it. Clients often describe sessions as feeling like an unusually honest conversation with someone who is genuinely on their side, and who is also unafraid to name the hard things out loud.

If any of this sounds like the kind of therapy you've been looking for, reach out for a free 15-minute consultation or explore our full list of services. If Andrea's caseload is full when you write in, you are warmly invited to join our waitlist — additional clinicians are being welcomed to Eden Root Therapy in the months ahead, each hand-selected for their training in women's mental health.