About Isabel
Isabel Restrepo is a licensed clinical social worker in New York who draws on 13 years of work with people facing trauma, relationship struggles, and LGBTQ+ concerns. She talks plainly about mood, focus, and self-esteem challenges to help people find clearer steps forward. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish to meet diverse needs.
Isabel centers the person in each meeting. She approaches conversations as a chance to identify strengths and break problems into manageable parts.
Background and approach
That can mean working on concentration and impulsivity, building self-love after self-harm urges, or addressing panic and obsessive thoughts. She also helps people navigate prejudice and multicultural stress. Her background includes long experience supporting those dealing with PTSD, abuse, and complex mood or personality issues.
She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques adapted to each person rather than applying one fixed method. Over time she helps people notice small changes that add up to better daily functioning. Isabel often focuses on communication and attachment patterns when relationships cause strain.
She helps people clarify boundaries and handle non-monogamous or polyamorous arrangements when those issues are relevant. Work can include practical skill-building, role practice, and reflection on past hurts. Beginning therapy with Isabel typically means talking through immediate concerns and making a simple plan.
She encourages steady, doable steps toward improved concentration, confidence, and coping. Her approach balances direct skills practice with attention to personal history and cultural context.
How Isabel’s Approaches Work Online
Isabel uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach she uses helps people build concrete coping skills for panic, mood swings, and obsessive thoughts by practicing techniques in session and at home. Another approach centers on interpersonal and attachment patterns, helping people notice how past relationships shape current communication and boundaries, useful for relationship strain and polyamorous concerns.Choosing the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. Isabel discusses goals and preferences in early sessions and adjusts methods as needed. She works with each person to try strategies, review how they feel, and refine the plan together so therapy fits the person rather than the other way around.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is helpful when visual cues and role practice matter. Phone sessions can be simpler when internet bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in works best. Live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins, written reflections, and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum on work toward clearer focus, better communication, and improved coping.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish