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Meet Frayde Yudkowsky, LSW, LMSW, CTP
Founder of THRIVE! Mental Health
Therapist • Educator • Advocate • Community Activist • System • Fashionista
Hi!! I’m Frayde Yudkowsky — and yes, I wear a lot of hats. Literally and figuratively.
I’m a licensed therapist in NY, NJ, and AZ, a Certified Trauma Professional, the proud founder of THRIVE! Mental Health, and a lifelong advocate for healing, honesty, and radical compassion.
I’m also a polyfragmented system living with DID, and that lived experience is my badge of honor. It’s the heartbeat behind everything I do.
My Work in the World
Since childhood, I’ve been drawn to creating spaces where people feel seen, heard, valued, and safe to be who they really are. That calling has taken me around the world — from the U.S. to Australia and back again — and into nearly every corner of the mental health field:
Psych hospitals
Rehabs, PHPs, IOPs, and outpatient centers
Alternative high schools, wilderness programs, sober homes
In-home counseling and nonprofit leadership
I’ve founded and directed several organizations, helped build others from the ground up, and always stayed rooted in one thing: people first.
Ready to help other Systems heal and THRIVE, I founded THRIVE! Mental Health — a private therapy practice based in New Jersey that supports clients in New Jersey, New York, and Arizona.
I work with children, teens, adults, and older adults — offering individual therapy, groups, and creative modalities that meet people where they are.
My specialty? Working with systems who live with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and OSDD.
Together, we explore who’s who inside, learn how each part is trying to protect, connect, or survive, and gently build internal communication rooted in curiosity and compassion.
Groups I Facilitate:
• DID/OSDD Support Group
• Creative Expression Therapy Group
• Chronic Pain Support Group
• Chronic Illness/Disability Support Group
• Sand Tray Therapy Group
• MHP Support Group
• [And more coming soon…]
Why I Do This
Because I know what it’s like to be on both sides of the therapy room.
Because systems deserve to be supported, not pathologized.
Because healing happens when we’re held — not fixed.
Whether you’re here as a client, a colleague, a fellow traveler, or just curious — I’m so glad you found your way to THRIVE!
Here, we see you. All of you.
🫶
— Frayde
My practice is focused on working with couples and with individual clients on anxiety, depression, phase of life issues, adjustment difficulties, self-esteem issues and stress management. I aim to cultivate a collaboration between client and counselor to create a positive, safe environment where change and healing can begin.
My view of the therapeutic journey is that the client is the expert of their own process being supportively guided by the counselor along the way. My main theoretical orientations are CBT, DBT and attachment theory.
I understand that life can be tough at times and making your initial therapy appointment can be the hardest step. You deserve it and owe it to yourself to gain back control of your life and live to your fullest potential. Regardless of what brings you to seek therapy services I am here to help in your journey.
The AZ Black Women’s Business Expo is a vibrant celebration of Black women in business, designed to uplift, connect, and empower our community. This impactful event brings together aspiring and established entrepreneurs, community supporters, and resource organizations for a full day of inspiration and opportunity.
Join us for this FREE consulting & networking group for female therapists, counselors, social workers, and substance abuse counselors of color!
Fresh Start's Peer Consulting & Networking Group offers an opportunity for female mental health providers of color to come together as part of Fresh Start’s commitment to provide a safe & reliable space to connect and hopefully increase the representation of providers of color and their longevity in the field in Arizona.
Our group offers opportunities for mental health providers of color to:
Foster collegiality and community
Provide and receive guidance on complex cases, ethical issues, countertransference, and more
Increase personal well-being
Decrease professional burnout
This group is FREE and open to any and all female mental health providers of color in the Arizona community!
“Taking Action Today While Building a Legacy for Tomorrow”
2025 Madam C.J. Walker Economic Empowerment Expo and Conference
On Saturday, June 7, step into a world where your ambitions burn bright and you blaze a trail to making your financial dreams a reality at the 2025 Madam C.J. Walker Economic Empowerment Expo and Conference.
Presented by The Phoenix Metropolitan Chapter of The National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc., the event pays homage to the life and legacy of Madam C.J. Walker, America’s first self-made millionairess. This year’s event is a full day of education and resources devoted to equipping Black women to build generational wealth.
It’s More Than an Event - It’s a Movement
Whether you want to buy a home, launch or grow your business, or invest wisely, you’ll have the opportunity to learn directly from local industry experts. The Expo will also provide a showcase for Black women-owned businesses, with unique opportunities for shopping, inspiration and networking with local entrepreneurs and community partners.