Salony Setya is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) (NJ # 37PC00449000), with a Master’s degree in Psychology and a concentration in Clinical Counseling. For nearly 15 years, she has been working with children, adolescents and adults in a variety of settings including intensive in home, residential, outpatient, intensive outpatient and private practice. She has also served as a supervisor for several years at a crisis unit, over-seeing crisis intervention specialists and clinicians. Her primary experience has been working with Trauma, Anxiety and Depression in adults and adolescents. 

Salony is an integrative therapist and life coach. Her professional and life experiences in psychotherapy, transformative coaching and spirituality bring a unique perspective of viewing mental health and self-development as an evolution of the different layers of the mind, body and spirit.

Salony will meet you where you are in life. She strongly believes in creating a genuine, safe and non-judgmental space in which clients can build resources within themselves to face and uncover hidden truths that will set them free. Salony works with clients with trauma, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, anger, grief, transitions and relationship issues. She also uses Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to work with couples and families.

Salony utilizes the latest tools and technology in healing and transformation. She is trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS), Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), psycho-spirituality mindfulness, psychoanalysis, yoga/meditation and Laser Life Coaching and uses these techniques to support clients in their growth and healing. The goal is a more balanced and fulfilling life.

In her training, Salony felt a need to go beyond the traditional forms of therapy and found her way to mindfulness, meditation and yoga. She studied Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction. Inspired by the impact of Mindfulness on the brain, Salony created a “get paid to meditate” initiative at Catholic Charities where employees were given time and space to practice mindfulness in the workplace. She has taken several educational life coaching courses and completed a Laser Life Coach Certification from the Life Coaching Group. Salony attained a Yoga, Meditation and Pranayama (breathing techniques) teacher certification at Vimokshya Yoga, India and has also received training in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) by Dr. William Zangwill, a highly regarded EMDR trainer. She has also completed a yearlong course in post-modern psycho-analysis at the Academy of Psychoanalysis. More recently, she has trained with Richard Schwartz, the founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy.

With her training and her integrative approach to treatment, Salony offers a rich array of mind-body healing that goes beyond symptom reduction and strives toward life balance and mental wellbeing.

Typical symptoms and issues that Salony treats include:

• Trauma including PTSD
• Stress and panic
• Depression
• Codependency
• Parenting children with special needs
• ADHD
• Interpersonal and social skills building
• LGBTQ related issues
• Identity questions
• Making healthy lifestyle changes

Therapeutic Modalities include: