About Leonela
Leonela Marte is a licensed clinical social worker in New York with seven years of practice. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, or past trauma. Her style is warm and respectful and she focuses on clear, practical steps that people can use between sessions.
She listens first to learn what matters most to each person. From there she tailors conversations and plans to fit real life.
Background and approach
Sessions cover things like managing worry, building self-esteem, coping after difficult events, and handling parenting strain. Her work also addresses relationship patterns such as attachment concerns and communication problems. She supports people dealing with body image, loneliness, workplace stress, and money-related worries.
She helps clients notice unhelpful habits like impulsivity or control issues and develop alternative responses. Therapy with her often includes setting small goals, practicing new skills, and checking progress together. Leonela describes the process as collaborative - clients bring their goals and she helps map steps toward them.
That makes the work feel focused and doable. She offers sessions in English and provides several online formats to fit different schedules. Getting started involves a short questionnaire and scheduling a first appointment to see if the fit feels right.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Leonela draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skill building and recovery from distress. One common approach emphasizes learning coping skills for anxiety and stress - teaching breathing, thought management, and step-by-step exposure to reduce avoidance. Another common focus is trauma-informed care that helps people process painful events at a tolerable pace and build strategies for managing strong emotions and triggers.Finding the right approach is treated as a collaboration. Leonela will discuss your goals, preferences, and how you respond to early sessions, then adjust methods together. That helps ensure techniques match what you need and what feels manageable in daily life.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for working with her. Video calls let you have a face-to-face conversation from wherever you are. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between longer sessions or fit brief check-ins into a busy day. These options increase flexibility and help therapy fit into real schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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