About Veronica
Veronica Acevedo is a licensed clinical social worker in New York who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She works with people facing LGBT concerns, family tension, compassion fatigue, and big life changes. Her approach is calm and direct, aimed at making therapy feel manageable from the first session.
Veronica spends time listening first. She asks about current struggles, daily routines, and what a better day would look like.
Background and approach
From there she works with each person to set clear, realistic goals and practical steps to reach them. Her practice uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot patterns of thinking that feed anxiety. She also draws on client-centered methods to shape sessions around each person's priorities and values.
Mindfulness and skills from dialectical behavior therapy can be added when someone needs help with emotional regulation and staying grounded. Over 14 years she has supported people through issues such as attachment wounds, abandonment fears, post-traumatic stress, pregnancy and childbirth concerns, and struggles with self-love and life purpose. She also addresses family problems, domestic violence impacts, forgiveness work, and women's issues.
Sessions are offered in English and designed to fit into busy lives. Veronica emphasizes collaboration - she helps people try things out, check what works, and revise the plan as needed. The goal is steady progress toward more calm and clearer choices.
How Veronica Uses Practical Therapies Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's own goals and experience, with the therapist following the client's lead and creating a respectful space to talk through what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and replaces them with more useful thinking and small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and stress. Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, offers concrete skills for managing strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and handling difficult relationships.Deciding which approach to use is a team effort. Veronica works with each person to pick methods that fit their values, needs, and daily life. She checks in often and adjusts the plan if something feels off or isn’t helping.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a schedule. Video calls are useful when visual cues help the work, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat let people check in between sessions or do shorter-focused work. These options support flexibility and make it easier to keep steady momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
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- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
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- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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