About Eileen
Eileen DeNicolo is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 22 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship struggles, addictions, and life changes. She works with adults facing parenting challenges, career transitions, intimacy concerns, and compassion fatigue. Her approach is practical and straightforward.
She focuses on strengths and on what can change now. She keeps sessions supportive and encouraging. She listens first, then helps people notice links between thoughts, feelings, and actions.
Background and approach
Together they build coping skills that fit day-to-day life. Sessions aim to be flexible to each person’s needs. Eileen uses a mix of approaches to match what a person needs in the moment.
She draws on client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and mindfulness practices to reduce distress and improve functioning. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused ideas help when change feels overwhelming. Her style is down-to-earth and non-judgmental.
People can expect clear, simple tools and step-by-step plans when that feels right. She also uses open conversation to explore values, goals, and relationship patterns. Based in New York, she combines long clinical experience with a collaborative attitude.
She helps people identify realistic next steps, try new behaviors, and track small gains. The focus is on practical progress rather than perfection.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered work focuses on the person’s experience and priorities. It gives space for people to tell their story and for the therapist to follow what matters most. This approach helps with motivation, self-understanding, and building on existing strengths.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses concrete exercises and experiments to reduce anxiety, depression, and problematic patterns. People often leave sessions with clear steps to try between meetings.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, adds skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and healthier communication. It can be useful when emotions feel overwhelming or when relationships are strained.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to goals and try methods that fit a person’s life. Together they will adjust strategies as progress, setbacks, or life changes appear.
Online therapy lets people work with licensed professionals from different locations using video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit shorter breaks or low bandwidth, and chat or text works for quick check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English