Jude Abudawood
Marriage and Family Therapist
EMDR Therapist
With over thirteen years of experience working with children, orphans, and refugees as both a teacher and volunteer, Jude brings compassion, patience, and dedication to her therapeutic work. She has previously practiced as a Marriage and Family Therapist in Syracuse, where she supported clients facing complex, developmental, and acute trauma, PTSD, depression, anxiety, grief, infidelity, suicidality, family challenges, relationship problems, intimacy issues, domestic violence, and adjustment disorders.
Jude is an experienced clinician whose approach is holistic, client-centered, culturally humble, and trauma-informed. She specializes in couples therapy and draws on a broad range of evidence-based practices grounded in systemic, humanistic, and attachment-focused frameworks. Her work is guided by the belief that meaningful change emerges through collaboration, safety, and respect for each client’s lived experience. She is also an EMDR practitioner, certified by EMDRIA.
Certifications and Trainings:
- Trauma Resiliency Model Level 2
- Dialectical Behavioural Therapy
- Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
- Gottman Method Level 2
- Safe Havening Techniques
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Integrative Behavioural Couple Therapy
- Relational Life Therapy – Level 3
- Narrative Exposure Therapy
- Discernment Counselling