Joshua Acosta-Duque, LCSW.
Latino Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Columbia-educated. Five years in practice. Trained in EMDR, CBT, DBT, and mindfulness-based work — grounded in a career built alongside families, veterans, folks in recovery, and people whose lives don't fit the tidy version therapy sometimes wants.
Not the therapist who has all the answers.
"I didn't become a therapist because I have all the answers. I became one because I believe people deserve someone who's willing to sit with them, ask the hard questions, and not look away when life gets messy."
A career built outside the neat version.
Master of Social Work from Columbia University. Before private practice, Joshua worked in child welfare, with justice-involved populations, and in substance abuse and recovery — settings where surface-level answers don't hold and depth work matters most.
His clinical focus grew out of that work: complex trauma, codependency, intimacy, life transitions, and identity across LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC communities. The practice is rooted in justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion — not as a footer, as a way of working.