Timothy Bustle

Timothy began his social work career in defense based social work. Working in a prison reentry program, Getting Out and Staying Out, in East Harlem, he advocated in criminal courts in four boroughs, provided clinical services for his case load and improved programming that connected his clients to helpful resources in NYC. He has experience providing and building community based programming for public schools in Harlem with the Columbia Achievement Initiative. Additionally, he has taken on therapy roles at Housing Works, Cylar House, a community based outpatient mental health setting, at Greenpoint Psychotherapy, a private group practice, and most recently, college therapy at Manhattan University. Timothy has a particular passion for working with vulnerable youth and specifically, in understanding how to improve social work systems to address systemic inequities for the populations he has served.

Timothy believes that advancing social justice is the core of social work, as well as clinical work, and must be integrated into every professional interaction. Timothy acknowledges that it is a continual learning process to decolonize social work and to take ownership of being a lifelong student committed to cultural humility and at its root, the ethics that each social worker is bound by. He holds an LMSW and SIFI credential. Timothy also has a Master of Science in Social Work from Columbia University and a Bachelors in Forensic Psychology from John Jay College in NYC.