Arielle’s work is grounded in evidence, curiosity, and respect for complexity.
About
Arielle Bailkin is a licensed clinical social worker providing therapy to adolescents, adults, and parents in New York and Florida.
Arielle’s style is active, collaborative, and direct. She listens carefully, takes clients seriously, and works to create the kind of therapy where people do not have to over-explain themselves to be understood. Her work balances compassion with movement. Therapy is not just about insight; it is about building the skills, clarity, and support needed to do something different.
Before opening her practice, Arielle worked across a range of clinical settings, including schools, community mental health, outpatient eating disorder settings, IOP-level care, and private practice. Her background has shaped a flexible, systems-aware approach to therapy: one that considers the client, their environment, their relationships, and the supports around them. She earned her MSW from NYU Silver School of Social Work and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Literature from Franklin & Marshall College.
On her days off, Arielle can usually be found walking her dog, spending time with her family, or rearranging something in her apartment that probably did not need to be rearranged.
“Emotions are information. The big, sensitive, inconvenient ones especially. My job is to help you understand yours, build real skills around them, and create a life that doesn't require you to constantly mask, override, or apologize for who you are. Therapy with me is collaborative and structured, and the work is always built around you — not the other way around.”
Clinical Training
Arielle’s clinical training is primarily grounded in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). She completed Foundational Training through Behavioral Tech and has worked in DBT-focused practice settings providing individual therapy, DBT skills groups, parent coaching, family work, and consultation-team-based care.
Her DBT and trauma-focused training includes DBT-Prolonged Exposure (DBT-PE) with Melanie Harned and Annie McCall, DBT-PTSD with Martin Bohus, Using DBT-PE with Autistic Individuals with Dr. Lorie Ritschel, and EMDRIA EMDR training. She has also pursued advanced training in adapting DBT for neurodivergent clients, including autistic, ADHD, and AuDHD adolescents and adults.
Arielle’s eating disorder training includes CBT-E through CREDO, CEBT Eating Disorder training for DBT Clinicians (MED-DBT), DBT for Binge Eating and Bulimia Nervosa, and clinical experience providing outpatient and IOP-level care for clients with anorexia nervosa, binge eating disorder, ARFID, and other eating disorder presentations.
Her broader training and clinical background also include CBT, motivational interviewing, family-based therapy (FBT), parent work, crisis intervention, polyvagal theory with Deb Dana, and systems-informed care across school, community mental health, private practice, and higher-acuity outpatient settings.
Across trainings, Arielle’s focus is consistent: evidence-based therapy that is structured, active, and responsive to the complexity of each client’s nervous system, history, relationships, environment, and lived experience.