About Henrieta
Henrieta Deka is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in New York. She brings five years of experience to her work and focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, family conflict, and depression. Henrieta speaks English and Haitian Creole and aims to make each session feel approachable and straightforward.
She creates a space where clients can talk honestly about what is hard for them. Sessions are guided by the client’s concerns and pace.
Background and approach
Henrieta listens for practical changes that can reduce daily strain and improve mood. Her background includes several years of direct clinical work with individuals facing life transitions, caregiving strain, chronic illness, and workplace pressures. That experience informs a problem-focused approach that mixes short-term coping strategies with conversations about longer-term goals.
Henrieta often helps people deal with guilt, shame, and isolation. She also supports those working through forgiveness, communication breakdowns, or questions of life purpose. Conversations may include managing pregnancy and childbirth concerns or midlife shifts when those topics are important.
Clients can expect clear, down-to-earth guidance and practical tools to try between sessions. She welcomes people who want straightforward help for mood disorders, social anxiety, or stress linked to work and family roles.
Evidence-informed approaches and online care
Henrieta uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional processing. One common approach emphasizes building coping skills and concrete strategies to reduce stress and manage anxiety, useful for daily overwhelm and workplace strain. Another approach centers on processing traumatic experiences and their effects, helping people make sense of what happened and reduce its impact on current life.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Henrieta works with each person to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and comfort level, and she adjusts the plan as work progresses. Clients are invited to give feedback so care stays relevant and helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility and makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls provide face-to-face conversation when visual connection helps, while phone sessions can work better when lower bandwidth or not being on camera is preferable. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for shorter check-ins and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help people maintain continuity of care while balancing work, family, and other responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Haitian Creole