About Sephiratu
Dr. Sephiratu Wahab is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in New York with 12 years of experience. She focuses on anxiety and related struggles and aims to make the first step into therapy easier to take.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can name their problems and begin practical work toward change. Her work addresses stress, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, and depression. Sessions often include straightforward conversations about what is getting in the way, and clear suggestions to try between meetings.
Background and approach
She centers the person's goals when choosing what to try next. Dr. Wahab uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs.
She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and on mindfulness to build steady attention. Emotionally-focused and client-centered ways of working help people understand feelings and build self-compassion. People come to her with issues such as abandonment, attachment concerns, codependency, control or commitment problems, isolation, guilt or shame, and caregiver stress.
She listens for the patterns that keep someone stuck and helps outline small, manageable changes. Her sessions are practical and warm. She helps people practice new responses, notice what works, and adjust plans when needed.
Starting therapy can feel hard, and she aims to make progress feel doable.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions that align with those values. It helps when anxiety or avoidance keep someone from living the life they want. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, emphasizes identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-world experiments to reduce anxious or low mood symptoms. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm in stressful moments.Deciding which approach to use is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try methods that fit, review how they feel, and adjust the plan when needed so the work stays relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility across several formats: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video is not needed, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, or caregiving duties, allow shorter or more frequent check-ins, and reduce travel time while keeping consistent contact with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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