About Shana
Shana Maltzman is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and grief. She focuses on clear, practical support so clients feel less overwhelmed and more able to cope day to day. Her work begins by listening closely to what matters most to the person in the room.
She values straightforward conversation about symptoms, patterns, and real-life stresses like work strain, relationship changes, or caregiving demands.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to identify small, usable steps that reduce distress and restore functioning. Maltzman draws on several approaches to tailor care to each person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps spot unhelpful thinking and shift behaviors.
Client-Centered Therapy creates space for people to understand their emotions at their own pace. Narrative and psychodynamic ideas are used when looking at life stories and long-standing patterns helps move change forward. Her background covers a wide range of concerns beyond anxiety, including self-esteem, intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping problems, family and parenting stress, and aging or end-of-life issues.
She also addresses attachment and abandonment worries, communication problems, infidelity, and caregiver strain. Shana practices in New Jersey and holds LCSW-R and LCSW credentials. She offers multiple ways to connect, including video, phone, live chat, and text messaging.
Her style is collaborative and steady, focusing on helping people build skills and find clearer ways to manage life’s hard moments.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online care
Shana uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep anxiety and low mood active. CBT is often helpful for stress, sleep trouble, and repetitive anxious thinking. Client-Centered Therapy is another core part of her work; it emphasizes listening and supporting the person’s own goals so they feel understood and more in control.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust as progress is made. That collaborative process means techniques can shift over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls let people work face to face when interaction matters most. Phone sessions or live chat can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions and can be useful for tracking small changes and homework tasks.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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