About
A practice built on attention.
Elisabeth Coffey is a dual-licensed clinical social worker and addiction specialist in Florham Park, New Jersey — licensed in both New Jersey and New York. She has spent twenty-six years sitting with people through the parts of their lives that are hardest to sit with alone. She also holds certification as a DOT Substance Abuse Professional (SAP), SASSI Administrator, and Fitness-for-Duty Evaluator, and specializes in coercive control dynamics, high-conflict legal situations, and forensic clinical assessments.
Biography
Twenty-six years sitting with people through the hardest parts of their lives.
Elisabeth trained at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Social Service, earning her MSW in 2002, and has been in continuous clinical practice ever since. Her work is insight-oriented and pragmatic — she rarely talks about modalities in session. The vocabulary that matters is yours.
Her clients include working professionals in individual therapy, adolescents and families navigating transitions and addiction, individuals in high-conflict divorce and legal proceedings who need specialized clinical containment, and schools, attorneys, and employers who need certified assessments and forensic evaluations. Her LCADC and SAP credentials are rare in private practice — most clinicians can say they work with addiction; Elisabeth is specifically licensed to specialize in it.
She believes in unhurried diagnosis, in homework that fits inside a real life, and in a therapeutic relationship that can hold both warmth and challenge without choosing between them. The goal is not the absence of difficulty. The goal is the slow rebuilding of your relationship to it.
How I work
Insight-oriented. Pragmatic. Unhurried.
“I will strive to understand you and to help you understand yourself. We will work on understanding your unique challenges and developing your hidden strengths.”
— Elisabeth Coffey
Some sessions look practical — sleep, structure, the small daily decisions that compound. Others are reflective — the slow work of finding language for what has been wordless. Most are some of both. Across all of it, the throughline is the same: we move at a pace your system can metabolize, we measure progress in months not weeks, and we treat you as the expert on your own life. The hour is structured to be safe enough that real things can be said in it.
Licenses & training
Credentials.
The credentials are what make this work safe. The pace and the warmth are what make it work at all.
- Graduate degree
- MSW, Fordham University · 2002
- NJ clinical license
- LCSW · NJ #44SC05378100
- NY clinical license
- LCSW · NY #087039-01 (control #1327859)
- NJ addictions license
- LCADC · NJ #37LC00169100
- NY addictions credential
- CASAC-2 · NY #11861 — Credentialed Alcoholism & Substance Abuse Counselor, Level 2
- Federal certification
- SAP — NAADAC-Certified Substance Abuse Professional #175036 · DOT-authorized across all six federal agencies
- Screening credential
- Certified SASSI Administrator · #62618
- Forensic credential
- Fitness-for-Duty Evaluator · CONCEPT / Palo Alto University
- Student assistance
- Student Assistance Coordinator (SAC) · NJ #3461
- School social work
- School Social Worker · NJ #3200 · NY #090709580 (control #520009041)
- School administration
- NYS School District Administrator (SDA) · NY #1674781 (control #8816061)
- Teaching & supervision
- Supervisor of Field Instruction (SIFI) · Fordham University
- Additional certification
- Certified Life Cycle Celebrant
- Years in practice
- 26
- Clinical focus
- Adults · individuals · families · couples by arrangement · forensic & assessment work
- Languages
- English
- Licensed in
- New Jersey · New York
Currently accepting new clients