Dr. Philicia Rubin is a licensed clinical psychologist with experience providing short and long-term therapy to adolescents, adults, and couples. She specializes in working with depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, and issues related to gender, sexuality, and identity. Dr. Rubin spent six of her first ten years of clinical experience in college counseling centers and particularly enjoys working with undergraduate and graduate students as they navigate this unique and challenging time in their lives.

Dr. Rubin believes that a strong, trusting therapeutic relationship is the key to a successful therapy. She approaches therapy with a warm, collaborative, and down-to-earth style and strives to create a space where her clients can feel safe to be their true, authentic, and open selves. She uses genuine curiosity, compassion and sense of humor to foster connection.

Dr. Rubin co-founded Groundwork Therapy following a longstanding position at Fordham University’s Counseling and Psychological Services, where she held roles as Group Therapy Program Coordinator, Outreach Coordinator and Supervising Psychologist. Dr. Rubin earned her PsyD in clinical psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology in San Francisco after receiving her MS in psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She earned her BS in psychology from the University of Florida.

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