Lin Sternlicht, LMHC, M.A., Ed.M, is an experienced and results-driven concierge therapist, coach, and family advisor. At Family Addiction Specialist, her focus is on successfully and efficiently creating desired changes in her clients’ lives. Lin offers both short-term crisis management and consultation as well as longer-term therapy and executive coaching for individuals, couples, and families in Brooklyn and Manhattan in New York City.
Her approach is uniquely tailored for each client and expertly integrates the most effective psychotherapeutic approaches with research-based wellness practices to help her clients attain their personal and professional goals. Lin is passionate about her work and dedicated to creating lasting change in her clients' lives.
With an extensive track record of success, Lin specializes in addressing the distinctive needs of prominent high-net-worth individuals and their families. Lin has worked with public figures, top executives, and professionals along with their loved ones in the New York City area as well as domestically and internationally in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. She intimately understands the specific personal and professional issues high-performing individuals and those in the public spotlight experience, including the stress associated with high work expectations and demands and the disappointment and struggles associated with a less-than-satisfactory personal life despite having achieved exceptional financial and professional success.
Lin understands the exceptional pressure and self-doubt successful people can experience during the highs and lows of their careers and how work can impact one’s personal life. With all the demands today on people’s time, self-care and one’s mental health are commonly overlooked, and Lin makes sure her clients’ sessions and new habits fit into their demanding schedules.
Lin completed her graduate work in clinical psychology and mental health counseling at Columbia University and is certified in Neurolinguistic Programming and Ericksonian Hypnosis. She is also trained in cognitive behavioral therapy, family systems theory, and mindfulness techniques. Her extensive experience working with individuals suffering from substance use disorders, as well as digital dependencies and the family conflicts that arise as a result, provides her with deep understanding, compassion, and sensitivity in treating the complications associated with addiction, including crisis intervention, conflict resolution with family members, discernment counseling, divorce, and co-parenting issues.
Lin’s comprehensive and holistic approach to managing today’s most pressing issues, including burnout, anxiety, depression, ADHD, personal/family conflict, and addiction, produces significant personal growth and meaningful long-term change. Lin specializes in treating digital addictions such as cryptocurrency addiction, day trading addiction, and video game addiction, among others, and has been featured as an expert on A&E’s groundbreaking docuseries “Digital Addiction,” as well as in various other media for her profound knowledge and experience with digital dependencies. Her personal and professional experiences, along with her use of evidence-based strategies as well as spiritual, mindfulness, and nutrition-related practices, allow Lin to address seemingly permanent and hopeless issues successfully and not only improve her clients’ quality of life but help them experience more meaningful and satisfying relationships and careers.