Specialized therapy, clinical assessments & legal emotional support · NJ & NY
The Coffey Containment Method™
Protecting you from your next mistake — because it could cost you everything.
Specialized therapy, clinical assessments, and legal emotional support for individuals navigating high-conflict situations — and the attorneys who represent them. Dual-licensed in New Jersey and New York. Twenty-six years in practice.
- In practice26 years
- LicensesLCSW · LCADC
- FormatIn-office in Florham Park · Zoom
- CurrentlyAccepting new clients
Meet Elisabeth
A minute with the person you’d be working with.
A short introduction, in her own words — from the office in Florham Park. Tap for sound.
Licensed psychotherapist & forensic clinician · NJ & NY
An hour for the part of you that has been waiting — and a specialist for the situations that won’t wait.
Most adults who arrive at therapy have been carrying something for a long time. The hour here is for the careful, unhurried work of putting it down — and for the slower work of finding out what it had been protecting.
I work with professionals in therapy, with families navigating adolescent transitions and addiction, and with individuals in high-conflict legal situations who need clinical support the law cannot provide. I also provide drug and alcohol assessments, school clearances, fitness-for-duty evaluations, and SAP services for courts, schools, and employers across New Jersey and New York. The vocabulary that matters is always yours.
Specialties & services
A practice built around your most complex needs.
Ten areas of specialization — from individual therapy and substance use counseling to forensic assessments, court-involved family work, and legal emotional containment. If you are unsure where your situation fits, reach out.
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The Coffey Containment Method™
Specialized clinical support for individuals in high-conflict legal situations — and the attorneys who represent them. Protecting you from your next mistake.
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Assessments & Evaluations
Drug and alcohol assessments, school clearances, fitness-for-duty evaluations, and SAP services — one-and-done reports when you need clinical authority fast.
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Depression & Mood
A careful, paced rebuild of the small things that hold a life together — and the slower work of meeting what the depression has been responding to.
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Substance Use
Therapy for individuals at every stage of recovery, and for the families whose lives have been reorganized around someone else’s addiction.
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Life Transitions
Reflective, unhurried therapy for the thresholds of an adult life — the chapters that ask more than ordinary support can hold.
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High-Conflict Legal Support & The Coffey Containment Method™
Specialized clinical support for individuals in high-conflict divorce and legal proceedings — containing the emotional reactions that could cost you everything.
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Reunification Therapy
Structured, court-informed therapy for families where divorce or separation has ruptured the relationship between a parent and child.
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Family Bridge & Failure-to-Launch Work
Bridge work for families navigating school difficulty, failure to launch, the move into college, and the years on either side — for parents who need to step back and the young people who still need a steady adult presence.
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College Transition & Failure to Launch
For young people preparing to leave home, young adults who stalled along the way, and the parents learning when to stop helping.
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Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
Long-form work for adults recovering from a narcissistic relationship — with a parent, a partner, a workplace — and rebuilding agency, language, and time.
The Coffey Containment Method™
Treatment philosophy
“The only feelings that can hurt you are the ones you won’t allow yourself to have.”
— Elisabeth Coffey
Therapy here is not a curriculum. It is a careful, weekly hour with someone whose only job for the next fifty minutes is to understand what is happening for you — and to help you understand it too.
The goal is not the absence of difficulty. The goal is the slow rebuilding of your relationship to it, and the steady return of the hidden strengths that have carried you this far.
Forensic & assessment work
When you need a certified evaluation — fast.
Drug and alcohol assessments, school clearances, fitness-for-duty evaluations, and DOT SAP services — one-and-done reports for courts, schools, and employers across New Jersey and New York. Credentials that are rare in private practice.
Out-of-network benefits
Out-of-network benefits — and why they matter more than you think.
Most clients with a PPO insurance plan are eligible for significant reimbursement for out-of-network therapy. The process that normally stops people is the paperwork. I handle it. After each session, I generate a superbill and submit it directly to your insurance on your behalf. Many clients are surprised to find their actual out-of-pocket cost is far lower than expected.
The conversation begins quietly.
Most people who reach out have been thinking about it for some time. There is no urgency from this end. When the timing is right for you, leave a message — by phone or email — and we will find a moment to talk. The first call is a free 15-minute conversation.