About Danica
Danica Rivello is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience offering straightforward, practical therapy. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood disorders, grief, and major life changes. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at making it easier to talk about hard things.
Danica draws on evidence-based methods like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy alongside mindfulness and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Sessions focus on skills you can use between meetings, clearer thinking, and small steps toward goals.
Background and approach
She avoids labels that feel limiting and meets each person where they are. Her work includes supporting people through relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, career concerns, addictions, and challenges tied to identity such as LGBT-related stress. She also helps with eating and sleeping problems, anger, self-esteem, and the long shadow of trauma and abuse.
People with bipolar disorder and complex mood concerns are within her experience. Danica adapts her approach to each person’s needs. She uses motivational interviewing when people feel stuck and more structured CBT strategies when patterns need to change.
Mindfulness tools and DBT skills are added when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are priorities. Based in New Jersey, she offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging to fit busy lives. To begin, use the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session based on the options shown.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small steps toward those values despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It is useful when life changes make priorities feel unclear or when painful emotions get in the way of living fully. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with practical experiments. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating problems to build skills that change daily routines and reactions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches specific emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills that help when feelings feel overwhelming and relationships are strained.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work together with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative process may combine elements from several approaches over time so the work stays useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video is difficult, live chat for brief check-ins, and text messaging for ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules, reduce time spent commuting, and allow people to pick the communication style that helps them engage most effectively.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English