Gabrielle Ferrara is a Licensed Social Worker (LSW) in New Jersey and is currently working in private practice, seeing clients on a weekly basis for outpatient mental health counseling. Prior to being in private practice, she worked as a Counselor at The Counseling Center at Middlesex (NJ), a treatment facility providing PHP/IOP treatment to clients in recovery from substance use disorders. She provided group and individual counseling while at this position. On the writing side of things, she has been writing about various mental health topics for 3+ years now. She has had pieces published on The Mighty and Psychology Today. Some specific mental health topics she has covered in her writing so far include, but are not limited to: addiction recovery, eating disorder recovery, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). She is incredibly passionate about mental health and recovery, as well as writing about these topics.