Bernie Michael Glintz, LCSW, BCD, FAPA

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Get to know Social Work and Psychotherapy Expert Dr. Bernie Michael Glintz, who serves the population of New York.

Bernie completed his undergraduate degree at Brooklyn College. Wanting to further his education he then completed his Masters in Social Worker from New York University in 1974 and was a recipient of a Masters Scholarship to Fordham University serving underprivileged youth giving him over four decades of experience in his field. He is a senior clinician who is recognized by such prestigious organizations as the National Academies of Practice, where he is a Distinguished Practitioner and Fellow in addition to being a Fellow of the American Psychotherapy Association and the New York State Society for Clinical Social Work. He treats a wide population of clients for a multitude of diagnostic categories that includes anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, stress, divorce, obsessive-compulsive disorders as well as all spheres of adoption psychology. He utilizes a variety of modalities such as individual, couples, group, and family therapy formats.

Bernie is a Corporate Consultant for many Employee Assistance Programs as well as a panelist for the Nassau County Department of Probation, Panel of Forensic Experts, Nassau County N.Y. He is also a clinical consultant to many attorneys in custody, mediation, immigration, criminal and adoption cases for the past 25 years. Additionally, he is an organizational and management consultant who has worked in the corporate sector with many Fortune 500 companies and has conducted over 1000 seminars and management training at hundreds of companies throughout the United States. Bernie has spoken at many adoption conferences and has appeared on national television discussing controversial adoption issues. 

Social Work is an academic discipline and profession that concerns itself with individuals, families, groups, and communities in an effort to enhance social functioning and overall well-being. Social functioning refers to the way in which people perform their social roles and the structural institutions that are provided to sustain them. Social work applies social sciences, such as sociology, psychology, political science, public health, community development, law, and economics, to engage with client systems, conduct assessments, and develop interventions to solve social and personal problems; and create social change. Social work practice is often divided into micro-work, which involves working directly with individuals or small groups; and macro-work, which involves working communities, and within social policy, to create change on a larger scale.

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