I am Sophia Green, a licensed social worker, consultant, writer, and former troubled teen industry student.

My work is rooted in a desire to understand what is happening underneath the surface. Beneath the behavior, the diagnosis, and the patterns we repeat even when we desperately want to stop repeating them.

That curiosity is both professional and deeply personal.

As a teenager, I spent nearly three years inside the troubled teen industry, including wilderness programs and therapeutic boarding schools. I know what it is like to be the child everyone is worried about, and to have adults making enormous decisions about your life because they believe they are helping you.

Years later, I became a clinical social worker myself.

I earned my Master of Social Work from Fordham University and trained in Internal Family Systems, somatic approaches, psychedelic preparation and integration, addiction recovery, and ketamine assisted psychotherapy. I have since spent years working with adults as they try to better understand themselves, their histories, and their relationships.

Having occupied both sides of the therapeutic relationship has deeply shaped the way I work.

Today, my practice includes individual therapeutic work as well as consultation with parents and families navigating adolescence, emotional and behavioral struggles, treatment decisions, and questions about higher levels of care.

I am wary of reducing a person to their most concerning behavior. With families, my role is not to automatically advocate for or against a particular intervention, but to help parents understand what may be happening with their teenager and make thoughtful decisions without losing sight of the person at the center of them.

Whether I am working with an individual or a family, my orientation is much the same: curiosity before judgment, understanding before intervention, and respect for the wisdom that can exist underneath even our most confusing ways of surviving.