About Emma
Emma Catizone is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in New York. She brings 14 years of experience helping people navigate loss, trauma, and shifts in identity. Emma works with adults who are coping with depression, low self-esteem, and family-related stress.
She aims to create a calm space where people can talk and find practical ways forward. Emma uses straightforward conversations to identify what feels most urgent. She often combines client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral tools to spot unhelpful thinking patterns.
Background and approach
When emotions run high, skills from dialectical behavior therapy can help steady intense moments and improve daily coping. Her background includes long-term work with grief, trauma and abuse, and caregiver stress. She also supports people facing body image concerns, cancer-related challenges, and the strain of divorce and separation.
Emma has experience with first responder and veteran issues, as well as mood and panic concerns. Sessions focus on clear goals and small, doable steps. Emma tailors the pace and techniques to each person's needs and values.
She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and practical problem solving as clients work toward change. Emma holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, LCSW, and maintains a New York license. She offers sessions in English and works with people both in New York and internationally.
Getting started usually begins with a short matching process and scheduling a time to talk.
Practical approaches for online healing
Emma often uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person's own goals and experience, offering a respectful, listening-based approach that helps people feel understood and heard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking and acting to reduce depression and anxiety. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving day-to-day coping, which can be useful for panic and mood swings.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and try techniques together to see what fits. Adjustments are made over time so the work matches changing needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to add flexibility. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversations, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and text messaging supports brief updates between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and different time zones while keeping the focus on meaningful progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also works with
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English