THRIVE! Mental Health

THRIVE! Mental Health, located at 58 Hillside Boulevard in Lakewood, New Jersey, is a trauma-informed outpatient practice dedicated to helping individuals build resilience, self-awareness, and meaningful connections. The center provides evidence-based care with a focus on conditions such as depression, anxiety, trauma, dissociative disorders, and chronic illness, while also offering therapeutic approaches including cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, mindfulness, and creative arts interventions. With options for individual sessions, group therapy, and virtual services, THRIVE! ensures accessible care for a wide range of client needs.

At the heart of THRIVE! Mental Health is Frayde Yudkowsky, LSW, LMSW, CTP, the founder and driving force behind the practice. A licensed therapist in New York, New Jersey, and Arizona, Frayde is also a Certified Trauma Professional, educator, advocate, and community activist. As a polyfragmented system living with dissociative identity disorder, Frayde brings lived experience into every aspect of her work—transforming personal challenges into a source of empathy, authenticity, and strength. Her unique perspective fuels THRIVE!’s mission of healing with honesty and radical compassion, creating a safe, supportive space where clients can grow, recover, and truly thrive.