About Pertrina
Pertrina Works is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 13 years of practice based in New York. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, parenting strain, and depression. Pertrina blends practical strategies with steady support so people can make small, workable changes in daily life.
She draws on client-centered methods to keep sessions focused on each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to spot and change patterns that increase worry or low mood.
Background and approach
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are added when emotion regulation and coping strategies are useful. Pertrina has worked across settings with people navigating abandonment, adoption and foster care histories, attachment struggles, and blended family issues. She also supports clients dealing with body image, caregiver stress, codependency, communication problems, and control issues.
Her experience includes responding to people impacted by natural or human-caused disasters. In sessions she creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can speak honestly. She and the client set clear goals and build a plan that fits daily life.
Plans emphasize concrete skills and short-term steps to reduce overwhelm. Pertrina offers individual work for adults and young adults and adapts her approach to each person's situation. She practices in English and holds a New York LCSW credential.
People who prefer digital formats can connect by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
How Pertrina’s Approaches Work Online
Pertrina combines client-centered work with focused skill-building to help people cope better. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on what matters most to the person and guides goal-setting in a collaborative way. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical techniques to notice unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep anxiety or low mood in place. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills that can be useful when feelings feel intense.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Pertrina will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and together they decide which tools to try first. The plan can change as progress is made or needs shift, keeping the work tailored and collaborative.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work more like an in-person session while phone is helpful when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging can be used for shorter check-ins, quick skill coaching, or ongoing contact between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules and support consistent, ongoing work.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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