Create a Life Worth Living

Co-Directors
Liza Papazian M.S., LCSW-R
Vandana Syali Ph.D.
Annmarie Hardgrove LCSW-R, CYT
Ms. Hardgrove is co-director of LI DBT Group and chair of the Trauma Survivors Program. She provides individual and family therapy to older adolescents and adults, is an experianced skills trainer, and has developed and facilitates a stage 2 trauma processing group, which incorporates DBT skills and yoga. In addition to DBT, Ms. Hardgrove specializes in treating PTSD and complex trauma related to childhood abuse and neglect, sexual trauma, domestic violence and unresolved loss. Ms. Hardgrove obtained her Master of Social Work degree through the Molloy-Fordham program. She is intensively trained by Behavioral Tech, LLC in DBT and the DBT-prolonged exposure (PE) Protocol and is also trained in mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR). She is also trained in eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). Ms. Hardgrove is a reiki master and certified yoga teacher and incorporates yoga and body based interventions into her work with clients. Ms. Hardgrove’s passion to help trauma survivors heal began with her work at the Nassau County Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCCADV, now the Safe Center Long Island). She worked in the NCCADV’s crisis and counseling centers with a focus on abuse survivors in the child welfare system. This unique specialization informs her work helping clients increase their mindfulness of how trauma interplays with parenting, with the goal of building healthy parenting behaviors. She was also an on-call supervisor for the NCCADV’s 24 hour domestic violence and rape hotline, served as a domestic violence and trauma consultant at Nassau County Department of Social Services case conferences and started a DBT track at a hospital-based mental health clinic.