About Antonio
Antonio Wong-Rivadeneyra is a licensed clinical social worker in California with five decades of experience. He speaks English and Spanish and focuses on anxiety along with concerns such as family stress, parenting challenges, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. He frames clients as the experts in their own stories and helps them tap into existing strengths to move forward.
Antonio invites a practical, down-to-earth approach. He helps people identify what keeps them stuck and looks for small, doable steps to regain control.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on recognizing unhelpful messages people have accepted and finding ways to replace them with more positive, realistic ones. His work emphasizes skills you can use between sessions. That can mean strategies for managing disappointment, tools to improve motivation, or ways to handle anger and grief so they don’t dominate daily life.
Antonio aims to help people build steady habits that support long-term change rather than quick fixes. He values collaboration in the therapy room. Together with the client he explores causes of recurring problems and develops a plan tailored to personal goals.
The process is paced to match each person’s readiness for change and to honor their strengths. Antonio’s approach is suited to people wanting concrete support for stress, anxiety, career concerns, intimacy-related issues, sleep difficulties, trauma recovery, and compassion fatigue.
He encourages anyone feeling overwhelmed to take the step of asking for help and to use therapy as a way to reclaim more joy and control in life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Antonio commonly uses evidence-based techniques that focus on skills and real-world practice. One approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with new, balanced perspectives to reduce anxiety and improve mood; this helps people spot patterns that feed worry. Another approach concentrates on building practical coping skills - such as sleep routines, stress-management strategies, and steps to manage anger - so daily life feels more stable and manageable.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Antonio works with each person to understand goals, needs, and preferences, and then adapts techniques so they fit the individual. The plan can change over time as progress is made and new priorities appear.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people read nonverbal cues and have longer conversations, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or for a quicker check-in, and live chat or text-based messaging can help maintain continuity between appointments. These options provide flexibility for scheduling, pacing, and the way someone prefers to communicate.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 51 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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