About Brittanie
Brittanie Pena is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and stress. She brings 16 years of experience working with individuals facing depression, trauma, relationship challenges, and life transitions. Brittanie offers sessions in English and Spanish and practices from New Jersey as an LCSW.
She uses straightforward, practical methods in sessions. Brittanie helps people learn skills for handling intense emotions, improving communication, and coping with daily pressures.
Background and approach
Many conversations focus on small, doable changes rather than big, abstract plans. Her work often addresses relationship patterns and attachment concerns. She guides people in understanding how past hurts affect current connections and supports steps toward healthier interaction.
This includes coaching on setting boundaries and repairing communication breakdowns. Brittanie integrates cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and replace it with clearer, more useful thoughts. She also draws on mindfulness to help people notice stress reactions and respond differently in the moment.
Dialectical skills are used when emotions feel overwhelming and stability is needed. Sessions are collaborative and paced to fit each person's goals. Brittanie aims to make therapy practical so people can use what they learn between appointments.
She also offers multiple online session formats to fit different schedules and needs. Over her career she has worked with concerns ranging from parenting and career stress to more complex issues like domestic violence, immigration-related stress, and bipolar disorder. Her bilingual ability allows her to connect with Spanish-speaking clients who prefer therapy in that language.
Therapeutic approaches for online anxiety and relationship work
Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's goals and experiences, with the therapist listening closely and reflecting back what matters most. This approach helps people feel heard and guides sessions toward the priorities they bring, such as reducing anxiety or improving communication.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and acting. It is often used for anxiety, stress, mood concerns, and for building practical skills people can use between appointments.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete coping skills for intense emotions, including distress tolerance and emotion regulation. These tools can be helpful when anxiety or relationship conflict causes strong reactions that feel hard to manage.
Finding the right approach is part of the process; the therapist will work together with each person to decide which methods fit best. Treatment plans are shaped by the client's goals, current challenges, and personal preferences so therapy remains useful and relevant.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people share updates between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family life, or other routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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