Murray Dabby, LCSW
Atlanta Center for Social Therapy
Atlanta, GA
Phone: 404-545-2285, 404-633-3282
Email: Murray@atlantasocialtherapy.com
Website: www.atlantasocialtherapy.com
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Murray Dabby, LCSW is a therapist, trainer and relationship coach and performance activist who has been practicing since the early 1980s. He operates the Atlanta Center for Social Therapy in Atlanta, GA and helped found the East Side Institute in the early 80s. He specializes in group therapy and relationship counseling, and has a background working with people who have experienced significant trauma, depression and anxiety, as well as with adolescents and people with more severe emotional conditions. He was adjunct professor at Whitney M. Young School of Social Work, and currently consults using improvisation as a form of teaching developmental conversation at Georgia State University. He has been a teacher, presenter and supervisor in Atlanta and around the country on groups, relationships and creativity and improvisation in therapeutic practice and has offered workshop and presentations, including:
* Improv for Social Anxiety and Depression: A Creative Method
* Unifying Dualism and Difference: Being and Becoming in Psychotherapy and Performance
* Reinitiating Child’s Play with Adults: A Path to Spiritual Possibility
* The Performance of Spirituality and the Spirituality of Performance: A workshop in Community Building and Personal Development
* The Therapy Play: A Performance Narrative for the Therapeutic Person-Group Relationship
In the last seven years, he co-founded, with Allison Caffyn, The Couples College, a program that teaches couples skills for creating a more intimate long-term partnership. He also co-founded Curtain Up Anxiety Down (CUAD), with improviser and coach Lesly Fredman. CUAD is a biannual 12-week program that utilizes improv and group processing to help people with social anxiety, depression and social skills confidence.
Murray is also director of the Atlanta All Stars Performance Project, where he leads the development of cultural events, youth talent shows, play-readings and performances and community conversations. Formerly a board member of the All Stars Project, he currently serves on the Board of the Society for the Integration of Spirituality and Psychotherapy.
Murray is a popular Atlanta musician and performs regularly with his ensemble and with other music groups in the Atlanta area.
He has earned his Masters of Social Work at Columbia University in New York.