


Phone Counseling Available!
Business Established in 1990
Licensed & Insured
(877) 335-8767 Fax
Emotional Hugs Counseling
bhoskinscswr@optonline.net
Located at:
73 Scenic Hills Dr,
Poughkeepsie, NY 12603
(845) 518-5387
(845) 849-2771
About Brenda Hoskins, LCSWR/SAP
Brenda Hoskins has over 20 years experience working with a wide variety of clients and situations. Brenda is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Multi-Cultural Psychotherapist working with relationship issues, with both adults and adolescents. She is a certified DOT Substance Professional (provider). She is a trained Crime Victims and Sexual Trauma Crisis Counselor. Brenda has worked for the Department of Mental Hygiene as a Substance Abuse Counselor for 7 years, as a Rape Crisis advocate for 2 years and as a Child Abuse Investigator for 5 years.
Her experience includes working in the battered women's shelter. Her special interest / expertise includes working with adolescents and domestic violence. She works with both adults and adolescents. Her therapeutic emphasis utilizes play therapy with children and adolescents. She earned her Masters in Social Work in 1990 from Adelphi University and her Bachelors in Social Work in 1983 from Marist College.
