Karen Landmann

Karen Landmann is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in private practice in Manhattan. Educated at Columbia University, she has been in the field for 26 years. Her clientele consists primarily of persons dealing with depression, trauma, and chronic illness from a great variety of ethnic and cultural origins. Ms. Landmann has been working with persons with Severe Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and suicidality throughout her career. She is informed by up-to-date research and her professional experience in developing her interventions. In addition to depression and suicidality, Ms. Landmann focuses on the aspect of Abusive Traumatic Bonding (a term that she herself coined) in intimate partner relationships. An article on this subject was featured in Good Therapy on August 23,2021. Karen has presented on Abusive Traumatic Bonding at NYU Silver School of Social Work Office of Global and Lifelong Learning and National Association of Social Workers New York City (NASW-NYC). Her workshop on Trauma and Spirituality was featured by NASW-New York State in November 2021, as well as a keynote conference presentation at Convenings of Crisis Intervention Personnel. Karen's numerous peer-reviewed publications include Psychoanalytic Social Work and a book chapter in "Poverty and Street Children in East Africa" (Edward Mellen Press).