Our Counselor
Marilyn Blacher-Reich has over 45 years of professional experience. Her practice recently had offices is both Somerville and East Brunswick. She served Central Jersey exclusively. With the use of telehealth services during the Pandemic, her service area expanded to anyone residing in the State of New Jersey. Most recently, her practice is completely virtual.
Education
Ms. Blacher-Reich graduated from Lehigh University with a double major in Psychology and Sociology. She was one of the first 100 women to attend the University all four years. She earned her Master of Arts degree from The University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration with a focus on family, individual, and group psychotherapy. She participates in continuing education to maintain her certifications and to keeps abreast of the latest research which she can share with her clients.
This Therapist:
Believes that brief or long- term psychotherapy is a joint process. We work together to find solutions to the issues which brought you into treatment.
Will seek to learn about how your past experiences may have affected your current circumstances. She will ask what has and has not worked to solve your problems in the past. What has once worked to improve a difficult circumstance may no longer be effective. We will find new and productive pathways to cope with your present concerns.
Knows that the client is impacted by events in their personal life, their work/school/family life and that the events in our country and the world also impact our daily life. These events can place a dark cloud over what is already troubling the client.
Professional Experience
Her early professional experience in Pennsylvania included working in the role of a group counselor at a residential treatment center for emotionally disturbed children and treating children and adults in a private outpatient therapy center. She worked as a senior mental health
clinician in an adult inpatient psychiatric unit at the Behavioral Health Center of Rutgers Medical School. While working there, she opened her private practice in Somerville in 1982.
While working in Pennsylvania and later in New Jersey she helped workers and their families cope with their problems with a referral from their Employee Assistance Program. She was one of the first therapists to be certified in 1987 as an employee assistance counselor. Over the years she has worked with dozens of EAP programs throughout the country helping their employees and family members individually. She also serviced companies and their employees during critical incidences in the workplaces such as deaths at work, layoffs, bank robberies, and coping with the aftermath of September 11, 2001.
She continues to work with clients through their EAP benefit, through their medical insurance, or through the more recent WPO (workplace organizations focusing on behavioral health issues).
Meet our skilled and dedicate social worker in person by sending an email or calling to schedule an appointment for clinical services with Marilyn Blacher-Reich, LCSW, CEAP.
