Michelle Lepak, LCSW

As Project SARAH’s consulting trauma specialist, I love the opportunity to meet regularly with the team and offer guidance around their work with survivors of domestic and sexual abuse. A certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapist, I developed the Presence Psychotherapy trauma treatment model, as well as the ORBITS for Everyone process. I’ve published some of my work in the Journal of Integrative Psychotherapy and the Journal of Hospital and Community Psychiatry. I have been clinical associate faculty at the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Psychiatry, and taught trauma treatment at Rutgers University, as well as at postgraduate training centers such as The National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP) and The Training Institute for Mental Health. A psychotherapist and meditator for 30 years, I maintain a private practice in Montclair, NJ where I provide online consultation and training for psychotherapists.