About Ivelisse
Ivelisse Concepcion is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, parenting challenges, and mood concerns. She speaks both English and Spanish and draws on 25 years of experience in community mental health settings. She begins by listening to what matters most and meeting each person where they are.
Conversations focus on immediate concerns, clear goals, and practical steps that can be tried between sessions.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward tools to reduce overwhelm and restore a sense of control. Her background includes long work with children and youth, and more recent work with adults and couples. That history informs her approach to parenting challenges, family problems, grief, and complex mood issues like bipolar disorder and depression.
She also supports people coping with chronic illness, caregiver stress, and life changes. Ivelisse blends techniques from Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy. She adapts methods to fit a person’s style and needs rather than following a single plan.
Therapy can include learning new thinking patterns, practicing calming strategies, and setting small, achievable goals. Over her career she has focused on building strengths, identifying barriers, and helping clients take practical steps toward change. People who want clear guidance, steady support, and approaches that fit everyday life may find her practical style helpful.
Practical approaches for online anxiety and trauma care
Ivelisse commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Trauma-Focused Therapy in online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, useful for anxiety, panic, and mood concerns. Trauma-Focused Therapy focuses on processing traumatic events safely and building skills to manage reactivity and flashbacks.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy elements, which prioritize listening and adapting to each person’s pace and preferences. Finding the right mix of methods is collaborative - she will work with the client to decide what feels most helpful based on goals and comfort level.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls let people work face-to-face when it helps, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat or messaging can serve as brief check-ins or short coaching between longer meetings. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and keep continuity when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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