About Nerea
Nerea Jayo Schielke is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress and anxiety. She also supports those struggling with sleep problems, anger, low self-esteem, depression, and motivation. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish, and she accepts international clients.
Nerea centers practical goals and steady support in her work. She frames clients as experts in their own lives and looks for strengths to build on. Conversations focus on clear, manageable steps a person can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Nerea encourages small changes that can reduce worry, improve sleep, or restore confidence. With 20 years of experience as an LCSW in New Jersey, she brings long-term clinical practice to everyday problems. That background includes helping people cope with grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy questions, and parenting challenges.
She also works with issues such as ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue. Nerea attends to social context and multicultural concerns, including prejudice, discrimination, and experiences related to LGBT identity and HIV/AIDS. She is comfortable addressing sensitive topics like abandonment, infidelity, and intellectual disability, while keeping the focus on realistic next steps.
Her approach is collaborative and goal-oriented. Clients can expect straightforward conversation, skill-building, and regular checks on whether an approach is helping. The aim is to make progress that fits each person's life and daily routines.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Many evidence-based techniques focus on practical skills people can practice between sessions. One common approach is skills training that teaches breathing, sleep hygiene, and behavioral steps to reduce anxiety and improve sleep. These techniques aim to create predictable routines and lower physiological arousal that fuels worry.Another useful approach emphasizes cognitive work - noticing and testing unhelpful thoughts. This helps people reframe worries, reduce catastrophizing, and make clearer choices when stress rises. Those tools are helpful for anxiety, low self-esteem, and coping with life changes.
Choosing the right mix of techniques is a collaborative process. The therapist and client review what matters most, set goals, and try methods that fit the person's needs and daily life. Adjustments happen over time until the approach feels useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let the therapist observe body language and guide exercises in real time. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide quick, written check-ins and flexible communication between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, and travel schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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