Depression Therapists in New Jersey

Welcome to Ember & Bloom Therapy Co.! We provide compassionate, affirming, and trauma-informed therapy for individuals and couples navigating anxiety, trauma, relationships, identity, and life transitions. We proudly offer LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent, kink, polyamory, and ENM-affirming care. Our approach is collaborative, relational, and rooted in the belief that you don’t have to shrink or leave parts of yourself at the door to receive quality mental health support.

Dr. Alexander Iofin is a board-certified psychiatrist with more than 50 years of experience in medicine and psychiatry. Today, his private practice focuses on helping adults with ADHD, anxiety, and depression and treat patients throughout the state of New Jersey. Dr. Iofin understands how these conditions can affect nearly every part of life—from concentration, motivation, and productivity to relationships, work, sleep, and overall well-being. He provides comprehensive psychiatric evaluations and evidence-based medication management, taking time to understand each patient’s symptoms, history, challenges, and goals. His approach combines decades of clinical experience with thoughtful, personalized care. Dr. Iofin began his remarkable medical career at just 16 years old, when he entered medical school in the former Soviet Union, graduating with high honors and distinction. After immigrating to the United States, he completed the required medical examinations and continued his postgraduate training at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, completing a four-year psychiatry residency program in two years, followed by fellowship training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. For more than 25 years, Dr. Iofin has also been recognized as an expert in psychiatry by New Jersey courts. He has conducted thousands of complex psychiatric and independent evaluations, including court-appointed assessments and evaluations involving disability, U.S. veterans, and the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office. His work has been admitted into evidence in federal proceedings involving veterans. Dr. Iofin has also taught medical students and residents, prepared psychiatrists for board examinations, and participated in developing examination questions for physicians. Whether you are seeking answers for longstanding symptoms or considering psychiatric treatment for the first time, Dr. Iofin brings exceptional experience and an individualized approach to helping you move forward.

Welcome! I’m so glad you’re here! I am a Licensed Associate Counselor with a physical disability in New Jersey. Incorporating tools like CBT, IFS and mindfulness, I help clients with trauma, depression, anxiety, relationship issues and more. I strive to provide a welcoming, affirming space for clients of all identities and experiences including LGBTQIA+, neurodivergence (ADHD, Autism), Disability and Chronic Illness. I see healing as a fluid dance between the past, present and future. I'd love to be your dance partner in whatever season of life you're in. Let’s see if we’re a fit!

I’m Dr. Ashley Bujalski, a licensed clinical psychologist who works with adults navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, mood difficulties, low self-esteem, and challenging life transitions. I believe therapy should be a place where you feel genuinely understood while also developing practical tools to help you feel more confident, grounded, and in control of your life. Growth and change are key to positive well-being. I’m Dr. Ashley Bujalski, a licensed clinical psychologist who works with adults navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, mood difficulties, low self-esteem, and challenging life transitions. I believe therapy should be a place where you feel genuinely understood while also developing practical tools to help you feel more confident, grounded, and in control of your life. My approach in therapy is warm, collaborative, and individualized. I strive to create a therapeutic relationship that is supportive and nonjudgmental. Together, we will identify patterns that may be keeping you stuck, develop healthier ways of coping, and work toward changes that feel meaningful and sustainable. I recognize that no two people experience anxiety, trauma, depression, or life transitions in exactly the same way. Treatment is therefore tailored to you rather than relying on a one-size-fits-all approach.

Welcome, I'm glad you're here. You're taking a big step for yourself. My main ways of thinking that I lean towards are: compassion-focused, psychodynamic, attachment styles, and emotion-focused. I've been described by clients as patient, having a positive unconditional regard, and being able to challenge them to help them take steps toward growth. This process isn't always easy. My goal is to create a place where you can feel seen, safe, challenged, and supported, so that we can create lasting change. My approach leans toward being more direct and inquisitive, but with compassion. For releasing emotions, beliefs and trauma from the body I use the somatic and neurological technique of Brainspotting.

I work with people navigating developmental trauma, addiction, depression, and the complicated work of couples relationships. My own path through these same struggles — trauma, addiction, and long-term depression — sparked a nearly twenty-year exploration into meditation and somatic psychotherapy, and shaped how I show up with clients now. I hold a master's in Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling from Naropa University and I'm a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and Certified Addiction Specialist. I've worked in community mental health and private practice since 2014, with individuals and couples alike. What I care about most is helping people find real, felt change — not just insight, but a shift in the body and nervous system that actually sticks. Outside of sessions, you'll probably find me at the record store, on a trail, or dancing badly in my living room with my wife and daughter. I'd be glad to work with you.