About Eileen
Eileen DeNicolo, LCSW, helps people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, and major life changes. She brings over 22 years of clinical experience to conversations about depression, addiction, parenting challenges, and career worries. Her style is warm and encouraging, focused on practical steps people can use between sessions.
She uses straightforward listening and gentle guidance to spot strengths and patterns in daily life. Eileen pays attention to how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect, and she helps people try small behavior changes that add up.
Background and approach
Sessions are flexible to match each person's pace and needs. Eileen draws on client-centered work to keep the conversation focused on the person in the room. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to break down unhelpful thinking and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotional regulation when stress feels overwhelming.
Mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing are added when they fit the client's goals. People often come to her for help with family problems, caregiving stress, chronic illness, body image, and coping after loss or separation. She also addresses issues around substance use, codependency, and commitment worries.
The emphasis is on concrete coping skills and clearer choices. Sessions aim to be practical and hopeful. Eileen helps set goals, develop healthier routines, and build tools for handling setbacks.
She tailors her approach to what each person needs in the moment.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered work puts the person’s needs and goals first, with the therapist listening closely and shaping sessions around what matters most. This approach is helpful when someone wants a collaborative, respectful space to talk through problems and make choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress when people want clear tools to try between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches specific skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which can help when stress or anger gets in the way of daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and try methods that fit their preferences. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that can include skill practice, short experiments, or structured exercises depending on what the client needs.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people meet face-to-face when a longer session is needed, phone sessions can require less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins or when typing out thoughts feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while continuing consistent care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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