About Simona
Simona Ostrow is a New York licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, mood disorders, and career concerns. She supports clients coping with life changes and offers focused help for issues like social anxiety, PTSD, and living with chronic illness or disability. Simona values a straightforward, collaborative approach.
She treats people as the experts in their own lives and builds on strengths. Sessions are practical and aimed at skills people can use between meetings.
Background and approach
She encourages small, achievable steps toward better daily functioning. She brings about 20 years of clinical experience to her work as an LMHC - Licensed Mental Health Counselor. Over that time she has supported people facing caregiving strain, workplace stress, isolation, and challenges tied to women’s health and life purpose.
Her background includes work with mood disorders and bipolar and with people navigating major life transitions. Simona uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques in straightforward ways. That can mean learning to identify unhelpful thoughts, practicing emotion regulation skills, or building clearer communication habits.
She adapts these tools to each person’s goals and pace. Her style is direct but empathetic. She answers messages regularly Monday through Thursday and asks for patience when replies take a little longer.
People who want a practical, skills-focused path often find her sessions useful for short- and long-term goals.
Evidence-based approaches adapted for online care
Simona often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot patterns in thinking and behavior that increase anxiety or depression. CBT involves practical exercises and simple tools to test unhelpful thoughts and change day-to-day habits, which can be helpful for stress, social anxiety, and workplace challenges.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. DBT skills are useful when intense emotions or relationship stress make it hard to act on long-term goals.
Finding the right approach is a shared effort. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try different tools, and adjust methods based on what is helpful. The aim is to build skills that fit the client’s life and priorities, not to push one single method.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video calls allow full conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options offer flexibility for ongoing skill work, timely support between meetings, and therapy that can adapt to changing routines.
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What this therapist works with
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- Stress, Anxiety
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
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- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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