About:

Martha Crawford received her Master's of Social Work from New York University in 1995, and a post-master's  Advanced Certificate in Clinical Social work from the same institution in 1999. She worked as a clinical social worker, a psychotherapist, a field instructor and a clinical supervisor for twenty-five years in New York City.

In 2016 she was diagnosed with a unique, unstageable, un-prognosable cancer that transformed and reshaped my vocational goals, capacities and priorities (and my whole life, really).

Christmas Eve, 2019 I moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and now work as a mentor, teacher, writer, coach, psycho-spiritual director, and as a group and workshop facilitator.

What a Shrink Thinks earliest iteration was as a blog, begun in 2011, an online journal promoting general awareness and education and transparency about the complexities of the psychotherapeutic process. Since that time the focus of the content and services offered here have evolved towards explorations of the psychologies of liberation, of dreams, archetpye and depth psychology, group work, community healing and frank discussions of existential concerns and mortality.

You can find essays by and about Martha’s work in The New Yorker, Time Magazine, Vox, New York Magazine, Slate, NPR, and the New York Times. .

For information about groups, workshops, individual consultations please visit Martha’s website.