About Gerard
Gerard Riconda is a licensed clinical social worker with 28 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, and major life changes. He works with individuals facing mood concerns, trauma, relationship strain, grief, career stress, and questions about purpose. Gerard aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for people who feel overwhelmed.
He trained at Fordham University School of Social Services and early in his career worked with children and families in the foster care system.
Background and approach
He also spent time as a medical social worker in a rehabilitation hospital supporting amputees and people recovering from stroke and head injury. Those roles helped him learn to listen closely and respond to real-world struggles. Gerard describes empathy as one of his core strengths and prefers to tailor the approach to each person.
He uses methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and EMDR when those methods fit a person’s needs. He avoids a one-size-fits-all plan and looks for what actually helps. Clients can expect clear conversation about goals and practical steps to try between sessions.
Gerard also supports people dealing with ADHD, compassion fatigue, bipolar mood concerns, obsessive patterns, and various forms of anxiety and depression. He practices in New York and offers sessions in English. Gerard emphasizes collaboration and steady pacing so people feel heard while they work toward change.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when anxiety or difficult feelings are present. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills for changing unhelpful patterns. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is used to reduce the intensity of traumatic memories through structured processing when appropriate.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Gerard will talk with each person about goals, past experiences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made, so the work fits the person rather than forcing a fixed protocol.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for in-depth sessions and visual cues, phone works well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat can support brief check-ins, homework review, or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and maintain steady support over time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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