Savia Community Counseling Services (SCCS) was born with the purpose to facilitate a positive impact in the lives of the people we serve by providing in-community psychotherapeutic and supportive services within a culturally informed approach. Resilience, Strength-Based, and Compassion are the three pillars of our practice.  Savia Counseling is a group of professionals with a high sense of responsibility, social involvement and dedication to our work. Our fidelity is to provide high quality services by adhering to high standards of ethics and quality control.

Her founder, Dr. Sakima Gonzalez has been involved with the New Jersey Children System of Care for the last 10 years in multiple roles such as Care Manager Supervisor, IIC/BA Supervisor as well as IIC practitioner. Due to her vast knowledge of in-community services, she decided to create an agency that nurtures, prepares and support practitioners interested in community-based work. 

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Our In-Community multilingual professionals cover a wide range of therapeutic needs in the following areas, but not limited to:

• Trauma
• Immigration
• Adjustment
• Substance Abuse
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Self/Other injurious Behaviors
• Psychosis
• LGBTQ+
• Autism/Developmental Disabilities Spectrum
• ​​​​We also offer Behavioral Assistant, Mentoring and Parenting Coach Services. 

• ​Medically Fragile
• Bereavement/Loss
• Complex Family Dynamics
• Attention Deficit Disorder (All Types)
• Oppositional Defiant and other Disruptive Disorders
• Adoption
• Parenting Training
• Independent skills
• Vocational mentoring

We also offer Behavioral Assistant, Mentoring and Parenting Coach Services. ​