About Ivanilda
Ivanilda Silva is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with 17 years of experience. She blends practical talking therapies with creativity and movement to help people manage stress and anxiety. Ivanilda brings a calm, direct presence and clear tools clients can use between sessions.
She often focuses on everyday problems like worry, low mood, relationship strain, and the stress of big life changes. Ivanilda also supports people dealing with trauma, grief, parenting strain, career decisions, and questions around identity and intimacy.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward language and concrete steps rather than jargon. Her background combines social work with expressive therapies. Ivanilda holds a Master of Social Work and a Master of Arts in Expressive Therapies with a focus on dance and movement.
Those influences mean she may invite creative ways to notice feelings and try new behaviors alongside traditional talk therapy. Her approach includes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, attachment-focused work, emotionally focused ideas, and a client-centered stance. She tends to help people notice patterns, try small experiments, and practice new ways of relating to thoughts and emotions.
Based in Massachusetts, Ivanilda works with adults who want practical strategies and a collaborative, human-centered relationship. Sessions aim to leave people with clearer choices and skills they can use in daily life.
Therapeutic approaches you can try online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that matter, which can be useful for worry, anxiety, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and feelings interact and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. It often includes practical exercises and brief experiments to test new ways of coping with stress and low mood.
Attachment-Based work pays attention to how past relationships shape current reactions and connections. It can help with intimacy-related issues, abandonment concerns, and improving communication in close relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and daily life. Together they will try techniques and adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, chat and messaging let people check in between meetings or fit shorter prompts into a busy day. These options make it easier to schedule consistent work and use therapy tools in real time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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