Rita Gazarik
lcsw

Bio

Specialities:
Couples, Families, Gender Specific, Inter-ethnic, Corporate women, women mid-life.

Location:
153 Waverly Place, 7th fl.
Greenwich Village, NYC

Contact:
Tel: (212) 727-1568
rg@familylifecycle.com

            Rita Gazarik has more than 25 years of administrative, training, and clinical experience in health care. Today, Rita is the organizer and clinical director of Life Cycle Mental Health Associates, which is located in New York City. This organization provides mental health services to individuals and families.

            Formerly, in her work as clinical and administrative supervisor for a New York City Health and Hospital Corporation, Governour Diagnostic Treatment Center, Rita established and coordinated the Family Studies unit, developed the award winning training program for social work interns, created an education series for staff, supervised and hired staff, to provide necessary health and mental services to the Lower East Side Community.

            Rita’s expertise is in evaluating the needs of clients, creatively developing programs to meet these needs, and organizing personnel to carry out the missions of the program. Rita teaches graduate courses in family treatment, casework, and seminars in clinical assessment and diagnosis at Hunter College and formerly at Fordham University. She is also on the faculty at Columbia University as a field advisor for interns.

            She developed a mentorship program for the adolescents at Hetrick-Martin Institute while working as a consultant, which led to involvement with HIV/AIDS, which in turn led to publications and invitations to present her work at national and international conferences on AIDS and the couple and on gay adolescents and their families. Other subjects of her presentations included cross-cultural co-therapy with families and family life cycle issues such as children raised by grandparents.

            Rita is a charter member of the American Family Therapy Academy, chair of the Family Committee of the New York State Clinical Social Workers and several other organizations.

           Recent publications include co-authoring the chapter on Czech & Slovak culture in the book "Ethnicity in Family Therapy".