Vanessa Cocks

Vanessa Cocks, she/her: Vanessa Cocks is a trainee here at CFI, under the supervision of Dominique Pagano, LCSW. Vanessa is a second year graduate social work student at Hunter’s Silberman School of Social Work. She also received her BA from Hunter College. Vanessa has experience working with children and adolescents, including creating arts workshops for teenagers in recovery at Odyssey House New Orleans. This past academic year she was an intern with the social work department at Challenge Preparatory Charter School in Far Rockaway, Queens providing individual evidence-based treatment with students. As an aspiring therapist, Vanessa is focused on providing quality and informed mental health services drawing from evidence-based practices to help kids and families in skill building and creating goals to be the best version of themselves.