Our mission is to support youth and families in maximizing their potential and enhancing their wellness in the environments of school, family, and community through advocacy, mental health services, and education. Our agency provides mental health services to vulnerable youth who have personal, family, social emotional, academic, and/or environmental struggles often complicated by by extensive trauma history. Our purpose is to help youth address issues that interfere with functioning and success. Services are provided in natural and familiar environments, including the school, family home and community. Embedding services into natural environments provides better access to services, destigmatizes mental health treatment, and increases the integration and collaboration of trauma treatment more fully with support systems involved in the every day lives of youth.

Christina Grosso is the creator of Mind+Body=ONE, an integrative mental health practice in Westchester, NY. Ms. Grosso has worked as a clinician, supervisor, trainer, and leader specializing in the treatment of complex trauma in children and adolescents with mental illness and intellectual & developmental disorders. She has extensive experience in the practice, implementation, and training of Trauma Informed Care and evidence-based practices. Ms. Grosso served at the Jewish Board for over 20 years where she led the agency’s trauma training and organizational development initiatives focusing on the integration of clinical and milieu services. Ms. Grosso’s work has focused on system change and has consulted with child psychiatric centers and residential treatment facilities nationwide to disseminate Trauma Informed Care. She has authored papers in the field of trauma, self-care, art therapy, and TF-CBT including “Children with Developmental Disabilities” in Cohen, Mannarino and Deblinger’s book, Trauma Focused CBT for Children and Adolescents. She is the co-creator of the curriculum and NCTSN product, My Identity My SELF: Addressing the Needs of LGBTQ in Treatment (MIMS). Ms. Grosso is a certified clinician and supervisor in Trauma Focused CBT (TF-CBT) and a certified trainer in Psychological First Aid and serves on the NCTSN Terrorism & Disaster, Trauma and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, and Peer Support workgroups. Ms. Grosso is on faculty at New York University in the Steinhardt School Graduate Art Therapy Department. She is a practicing artist and her work focuses on abstract expressionism and process-based response art. Ms. Grosso is a doctoral candidate at Saybrook University in Mind-Body Medicine with a focus on integrative mental health and mindful leadership in healthcare.

Our model includes licensed therapist—family support services teams trained to deliver high quality, compassionate trauma-informed care by providing evidence-based treatment, such as Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy® (TF-CBT); Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI); Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) serving children ages two to seven; and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Families are paired with a family support worker to provide aftercare for up to 12 months after discharge.