About Brittanie
Brittanie Pena is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She practices in New Jersey and speaks both English and Spanish. She brings a straightforward, compassionate approach to the work and prioritizes practical support for daily life.
Brittanie draws on person-centered care that keeps each persons goals at the center of sessions. She also uses cognitive-behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thoughts and build different habits.
Background and approach
Mindfulness tools are woven in to help with emotional regulation and grounding. Her practice covers a wide range of concerns. People come for help with relationship and intimacy questions, parenting strain, workplace stress, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and coping with major life changes.
She also addresses issues such as attachment wounds, abandonment, domestic violence, and immigration-related stress. Sessions aim to teach skills and create clearer patterns in relationships and daily routines. Brittanie works with clients to improve communication, reduce reactivity, and strengthen self-worth.
The focus is on small, doable steps that fit into each persons life. With 16 years of experience, Brittanie offers clinical experience alongside a practical orientation. She helps clients build tools for resilience while honoring cultural and language needs.
People looking for a calm, direct approach to emotional and relational problems often find this style helpful.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and shaping sessions around what matters most to the person. This approach helps people feel heard and supports work on goals like improving self-worth and communication.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact. In online sessions this translates into homework, skill practice, and clear steps to reduce anxiety or change unhelpful habits.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches practical skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. It includes techniques for distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and mindful communication that can be practiced between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what fits their needs and preferences. Clients help decide which methods feel most useful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, chats are handy for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing processing between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while using the approaches above in ways that work for each person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English, Spanish