About Danica
Danica Rivello is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 25 years of experience. She focuses on everyday struggles such as stress, anxiety, depression, and career concerns. Parents and people juggling change often find her approachable and straightforward.
She aims to make the first step feel manageable and supportive. Danica works with people facing mood disorders, trauma histories, and addiction challenges. She also helps those dealing with grief, intimacy issues, eating or sleeping struggles, and relationship or communication problems.
Background and approach
Her practice includes attention to ADHD, compassion fatigue, and self-esteem concerns. Her style is warm and interactive. Sessions blend practical strategies with conversations about values and goals.
She uses techniques that help people notice patterns, try small changes, and practice new skills between sessions. Danica draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, existential ideas, and mindfulness-based work. Those approaches inform how she helps clients build coping skills, manage emotions, and clarify what matters to them.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging from her New Jersey practice. Sessions are arranged through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules based on therapist availability.
How evidence-based approaches meet online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, connect with what matters, and take small committed steps. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions where values and choice matter. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thought and behavior and testing new, more helpful ways of responding. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, mood struggles, sleep, and stress management. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved communication when emotions feel overwhelming.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Danica will talk through goals, try methods that fit the client's needs, and adjust the plan based on what works. That partnership helps shape a clear, practical course of action rather than a set program imposed from the start.
Online therapy provides a range of ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video is not ideal, live chat for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, manage sessions during work breaks, choose lower-bandwidth options when needed, or use short messages for quick coaching and reminders.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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