About Evangeline
Evangeline Benitez is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in New York. She brings three years of experience helping people who are dealing with anxiety, depression, stress, trauma, low self-esteem, and attention challenges. Evangeline focuses on clear, practical steps that people can use between sessions to feel steadier and more capable.
Her work emphasizes understanding each person’s experience and strengths. She listens for patterns that make daily life harder, such as panic symptoms, obsessive or compulsive thoughts, mood swings, or difficulties with impulsivity.
Background and approach
From there she helps clients try straightforward strategies to manage symptoms and build skills. Evangeline tends to use evidence-based therapeutic techniques to teach emotion regulation, coping tools, and communication skills. Sessions are collaborative - she and the client set goals and check progress over time.
Parents can expect guidance on supporting a child’s emotional growth and on handling behavioral challenges in consistent ways. She is comfortable addressing a wide range of concerns, including postpartum depression, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder, social anxiety, and self-harm behaviors. Evangeline also supports people working through guilt, shame, and relationship strain that affects daily life.
Conversations in her sessions are practical and focused. She helps clients break problems into manageable steps and practice new responses. Her goal is to leave people with tools they can use when stress or symptoms rise.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Evangeline commonly uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that teach concrete skills people can apply right away. One approach focuses on emotion regulation skills to reduce intense feelings and improve daily functioning; this helps with panic, mood swings, and overwhelming stress. Another concentrates on exposure and response strategies for obsessive or avoidant behaviors, helping people gradually face feared situations and reduce compulsive responses.Deciding which approach to try is a team effort. The therapist reviews symptoms, daily challenges, and personal goals with each person and then suggests steps to test over several sessions. Clients and the therapist adjust the plan together based on what works and what needs changing.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone sessions work well when a quicker check-in or lower bandwidth is needed, and live chat or text messaging can be useful for short updates, skills practice, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep consistent progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English