Meet Frayde Yudkowsky, LSW, LMSW, CTP
Founder of THRIVE! Mental Health
Therapist • Educator • Advocate • Community Activist • System • Fashionista
Hi!! I’m Frayde Yudkowsky — and yes, I wear a lot of hats. Literally and figuratively.
I’m a licensed therapist, a Certified Trauma Professional, the proud founder of THRIVE! Mental Health, and a lifelong advocate for healing, honesty, and radical compassion.
I’m also a polyfragmented system living with DID, and that lived experience is my badge of honor. It’s the heartbeat behind everything I do.
Since childhood, I’ve been drawn to creating spaces where people feel seen, heard, valued, and safe to be who they really are. That calling has taken me around the world — from the U.S. to Australia and back again — and into every corner of the mental health field:
- Psychiatric and forensic psychiatric hospital
- Rehabs, PHPs, IOPs, and outpatient centers
- Alternative high schools, wilderness programs, sober living homes and shelters
- In-home crisis counseling
I’ve founded and directed several nonprofit organizations, helped build others from the ground up, and always stayed rooted in my two core beliefs: people first and safety first.
Ready to help folx with complex trauma and plurality heal and THRIVE, I founded THRIVE! Mental Health — a private therapy practice based in glorious South Florida.
I work with all ages, all genders, and all backgrounds offering individual therapy, groups, and creative modalities that meet people where they are.
My specialty? Working with systems who live with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and OSDD.
Together, we explore who’s who inside, learn how each part is trying to protect, connect, or survive, and gently build internal communication rooted in curiosity and compassion aiming for a life of loving collaboration and harmony.
The modalities I utilize are gentle and expressive:
- Sand Tray/Play Therapy
- Somatic Intervention
- Parts Work
- Positive Psychology
- Creative Arts
- The Flash Technique
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Group therapy and peer support are close to my heart — I’ve been facilitating groups for nearly two decades.
Groups I facilitate:
- DID/OSDD Support Group
- Sand Tray Therapy Group
- MHP Support Group
Why I Do This
Because I know what it’s like to be on both sides of the therapy room.
Because systems deserve to be supported, not pathologized.
Because healing happens when we’re held — not fixed.
Whether you’re here as a client, a colleague, a fellow traveler, or just curious — I’m so glad you found your way to THRIVE!
Here, we see you. All of you.
🫶
— Frayde
