Welcome to my practice
Twenty-three years. Two countries. One standard of care.
Giorgio
My clinical career spans inpatient and outpatient settings, community mental health, and private practice. Beyond direct clinical work, I spent 15 years in organizational leadership — supervising clinicians, shaping institutional culture, and understanding how systems either support or undermine the people inside them. That perspective travels with me into the consulting and therapeutic work I do today.
I trained at the NYU Silver School of Social Work and hold the LCSW-R, New York State's highest clinical designation. I am licensed in both New York and Washington State.
GIORGIO CHÂTELAIN, LCSW-R
My Commitment to This Work
The people I work with often carry a great deal — professionally, personally, publicly. They need a space that is genuinely private, genuinely rigorous, and free from the dynamics that complicate so many of their other relationships. That is what I offer.
I work with a limited caseload by design, because the quality of attention this work requires cannot be divided without limit. My commitment is to your self-discovery, to reducing what is interfering with your life, and to helping you access the emotional, mental, and spiritual strengths you already possess. What you receive here is not a service. It is a relationship — held with full discretion, and taken seriously from the first conversation.
As a Haitian-Canadian clinician living and practicing in New York City for 20 years, I bring a personal depth to this understanding that goes beyond clinical training. I know what it means to navigate complex identities, to carry the weight of expectation, to excel in spaces that were not always designed to hold you. I make it my priority to understand how identity, culture, and lived experience shape the way each person moves through the world. That is not a specialty for some clients, it is my standard for all of them. I am also a husband and a father — and that lived experience of marriage, partnership, and parenthood informs the depth and specificity with which I work with couples and families navigating those same territories.
My theoretical orientation is eclectic, because the people I work with are too complex for a single framework to hold. I have developed fluency across psychodynamic psychotherapy, structural family therapy, cognitive-behavioral approaches, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused techniques — and the clinical experience to know which to draw on, and when. Our work together involves your self-healing and the cultivation of awareness through my support, education, guidance, and — when the moment calls for it — an unflinching reflection.
There is room here to be exactly who you are. And from that place, we go further than you could go alone. What happens between us — the friction, the clarity, the moments of recognition — that is not incidental to the process. That is the process.
My Approach
GIORGIO CHÂTELAIN, LCSW-R