About Tiontay
Tiontay Castillo is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in New York who helps people facing stress and anxiety. She works with issues like low self-esteem, career concerns, depression, and compassion fatigue. The first session is a chance to talk about what feels most urgent and set simple goals together.
Her style is direct and respectful. She assumes people know their own story and builds on strengths they already have.
Background and approach
Conversations are practical and focused on small, doable changes that make daily life easier. Tiontay uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow each person's values and priorities. She also uses Motivational Interviewing to help people find their own reasons for change.
Solution-Focused Therapy guides brief goal-setting and action steps people can try between visits. She has five years of experience in social services and brings that background into sessions. That experience shapes a down-to-earth approach to workplace stress, caregiver strain, and feelings of isolation or shame.
Tiontay helps people untangle guilt, work toward forgiveness, and explore life purpose. People who reach out can expect clear talk and practical next steps. Tiontay encourages parents and professionals who feel stuck to start with a short match questionnaire and a scheduling step.
The work is collaborative and paced to what each person can manage.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following each person's priorities, helping people feel heard and guiding sessions around what matters most to them. Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change and build momentum toward new habits, which can be useful for career shifts, self-care, or managing anxiety. Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes setting small, specific goals and trying simple steps between sessions to see what works.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your concerns and suggest methods that match your goals and preferences. Over the first few meetings you and the therapist will adjust the plan together until it feels right.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper conversations and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, short updates, or when a brief strategy or coping reminder is needed between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to choose the way of communicating that feels most comfortable.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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