About Sirribi
Sirribi Atanga is a licensed clinical social worker with eight years of experience helping people navigate life changes and emotional strain. She works from New York and focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and manage anxiety while honoring each person's cultural background and values. Sirribi approaches sessions with warmth and attention to what a person already does well.
Sirribi uses a strengths-based outlook to build on resilience. She listens for patterns that keep problems going and helps people try small, workable changes.
Background and approach
Sessions often include goal-setting, skill practice, and checking what feels useful in day-to-day life. Her work covers a broad range of concerns including anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief, trauma and abuse, anger, self-esteem, sleep problems, parenting strain, and career transitions. She also supports people facing chronic illness, adoption and foster care issues, attachment and abandonment concerns, ADHD, and related challenges.
Therapeutic methods used include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, client-centered work, mindfulness practices, and solution-focused strategies. These methods are blended to match what the person needs and prefers, rather than following a single script. Sirribi aims to make sessions collaborative and straightforward.
She helps people set clear, realistic steps and checks in on progress. The work is practical and paced to fit everyday life. People who reach out can expect a respectful atmosphere that emphasizes cultural humility and personal strengths.
Sirribi encourages questions and shared decision-making about goals and techniques.
Therapeutic approaches you can try online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck. It focuses on what matters most and on taking small steps toward those values, which can be useful for anxiety and life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, mood shifts, sleep problems, and stress management.
Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and reflecting so a person feels understood. This approach is helpful when someone needs space to make sense of identity, relationships, or grief while feeling supported.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then suggest an approach or a blend of methods. Sessions are collaborative and adjusted as needs evolve.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and practicing skills. Phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into work breaks, family routines, or different schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New York, Colorado, New Jersey, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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