Meet Casey Movsovitz-Nichols, LICSW, MSW
Owner, Licensed Therapist
Casey Movsovitz-Nichols is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) in Rhode Island. She received her bachelor's of social work from Providence College and her master's of social work from Rhode Island College. Casey has experience working with clients across the lifespan, from adolescence to older adulthood. She started her clinical journey working with children with significant trauma backgrounds and behavioral needs, foster families, and foster children in foster care and aging out of foster care. Casey has also had experience co-facilitating groups focused on parenting and substance use relapse prevention. Casey has also designed several groups, including a men's group focused on building interpersonal relationships and exploring vulnerability and emotional expression for men, and a group focused on moving towards body neutrality and acceptance of one's body as it is.
Casey utilizes various evidence-based approaches, including acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and problem-solving techniques in her work with her clients.
Casey uses a person-in-environment perspective and strengths-based approach with the goal of helping clients better understand who they are and what shapes them. She hopes to empower clients to consider their values and take values-guided actions to influence their own lives and circumstances in meaningful ways. Casey maintains the belief that the client is the true expert in their own life, and she uses this belief to guide her practice.
Services
Casey offers several services to Rhode Island communities. Please find some information on the services she offers below:
Individual Counseling for Adults and Teens
Casey enjoys working with teenagers 16 years old and up, and adults. The first session is considered the intake session. It consists of discussing practice policies and confidentiality, gathering important information about the client's experience and who they are as a person, and identifying what the client wants to work on in therapy. The intake session is typically about 60 minutes. Each individual follow-up client session is about 60 minutes long. Casey is currently credentialed, or "in-network" with the following companies: BlueCross and BlueShield UnitedHealthcare, including UnitedHealthcare Student Resources Neighborhood Health Plan of RI RI Medicaid Plans Harvard Pilgrim Aetna Cigna Tufts Oscar Health Oxford Health Please verify your benefits and your cost of treatment with your insurance provider. Plan benefits vary greatly and you must confirm with your plan what the cost of treatment will be and if your plan covers Casey's services. Casey is considered "out-of-network" with all other insurance plans. She does accept private-pay clients and offers "super-billing" to clients who would like to utilize their out-of-network benefits. Casey's fees are $200 per 60-minute session and $250 for the initial intake session.
Couples Counseling and Family Therapy
Individual clients often discuss a multitude of things in therapy sessions, including conflict between spouses, partners, and family members. It is often helpful for the individual client to have support around these conflicts through couples counseling or family therapy sessions. Casey offers limited couples counseling and family therapy to best support her individual clients' needs. She also has a wide variety of referral resources for individual clients should they need to continue couples counseling or family therapy sessions longer term.
Group Therapy
Group therapy can be a powerful support for many clients. Casey has designed several groups throughout her clinical career. She is highly interested in running groups on body image, disabled identity, men's issues, and adult women of emotionally immature mothers. Groups are held based on client interest. If you are interested in attending a group described above, or have an interest in a different kind of support group, please speak with Casey in session or email her at casey@caseycounselingservices.com
Why Choose CASEY Counseling Services?
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Anxiety Disorders
Including generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety, specific phobias, panic disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and unspecified anxiety.
Major Life Stressors and Changes
Major changes, including loss of a job, divorce, loss of a loved one, and other kinds of grief and loss, and major life transitions, including moving, starting college, starting a new job, having a child, and anything else in between.
Depressive Disorders
Major depressive disorder, dysthymic disorder, and unspecified depressive disorders. Casey is also comfortable working with clients with a history of suicidality and previous attempts to die by suicide.
Body Image, Eating, and Movement
Exploration of body image, including how we define body image without focusing on weight, body dysmorphic thoughts, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) related to the body and eating, disordered eating, and making balanced changes to eating and movement habits.
Complicated Trauma Histories
Including related to childhood abuse and neglect, sexual assault, and other sexual violence, domestic violence and intimate partner violence, medical trauma, and substance abuse.
Chronic Pain, Chronic Illness, and Disabilities
Casey also has a special interest in working with clients navigating physical, medical, and/or psychiatric disabilities who may also experience chronic illness and/or chronic pain. She has experience working with clients with complex medical diagnoses and traumatic brain injuries.
Casey's Areas of Expertise
"This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays"
Ralph Waldo Emerson