About Roberta
Roberta Gelfand is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and parenting concerns. She works with people facing life changes, grief, trauma, attention challenges, and career or identity worries. Her approach aims to make starting therapy feel manageable and clear.
Roberta keeps sessions straightforward and empathetic. She listens with warmth and asks direct questions that help people see patterns in their thoughts and actions.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps clients can try between meetings to reduce distress and build better habits. She blends several approaches to match each person’s needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people accept hard feelings while taking values-based actions. Mindfulness practices are offered to reduce reactivity and improve focus. Roberta brings five years of clinical experience in New Jersey to her work.
She uses a client-centered stance that respects each person’s pace and goals. Together with the client she sets realistic goals and tracks progress over time. In sessions she helps people untangle family-of-origin issues, communication and commitment problems, eating and sleep concerns, and the fallout of shame or guilt.
She also supports those coping with caregiver stress, aging concerns, and recovery after loss. Her style is practical and compassionate. Roberta works to increase self-awareness, self-compassion, and everyday coping skills so people can move toward a more satisfying life.
Therapeutic approaches for online anxiety and stress work
Roberta often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT gives clear tools to test beliefs and change routines that keep anxiety and low mood active. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which teaches how to accept difficult feelings without getting stuck and to take steps that match personal values. That approach can be useful when worry or avoidance gets in the way of living the kind of life a person wants. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods based on goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Decisions about technique are revisited as progress is tracked. Online formats offer flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for therapy exercises and teaching skills. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is low or a camera isn’t preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging can support brief check-ins, homework review, or ongoing encouragement between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily life while trying different approaches to reduce anxiety and build coping skills.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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