Tracy M. Norris

Tracy M. Norris, DSW, LCSW-R  

Dr. Norris has worked in social work for over eighteen years. She has worked as a caseworker,  clinical supervisor, manager, director, psychodynamic psychotherapist, and adjunct instructor.  Dr. Norris has worked in several settings, including hospitals, social service agencies, schools,  

and jails, where she provided indirect and direct social work services. She has labored to set  up, organize, maintain, and improve mental health programs and provided face-to-face contact  to enrich clients’ lives. 

Dr. Norris provides culturally aware, psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, and person-centered  psychotherapy in her practice. She draws from several treatment modalities, including  psychodynamic, relational, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy  (DBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), and psychoanalytic. She is skilled in crisis intervention,  suicide prevention, dual diagnosis, group therapy, supervision, management, and working as  part of an interdisciplinary team. Her specialties include anxiety, depression, existential crisis &  challenges LGBTQIA, gender, & sexuality, relationships, race & cultural identity, trauma/ complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD), childhood trauma, emotional regulation,  phase of life problems, substance use, vocational stress, complicated grief/unresolved loss,  personality disorders, anger, control problems, and family conflict.  

Dr. Norris earned her Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Sociology from The City College of New York and  her Master of Social Work (MSW )from Columbia University. She obtained her Doctor of Social  Work (DSW) at Rutgers University. She focused on addressing Racial Bias Empathically in the  Context of the Psychotherapeutic Dyad. Dr. Norris completed her Psychoanalysis &  Comprehensive Psychotherapy training at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies.