About Jorge
Jorge Abreu is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on building a practical, human-centered path forward. He frames sessions around listening, clear feedback, and steps people can try between meetings. Jorge uses plain language and a calm presence to help a worried person feel understood and guided.
He draws on 32 years of experience to address stress, anxiety, depression, and intimacy-related concerns. He also helps with relationship strain, parenting challenges, grief, addictions, trauma and abuse, anger, and low self-esteem.
Background and approach
His practice includes work on communication problems, commitment and control issues, and body image concerns. Jorge blends client-centered care with cognitive-behavioral ideas and insight-oriented work. He uses mindfulness and psychodynamic perspectives when they fit a person’s needs.
Sessions focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and patterns, and on small, practical changes that reduce distress. Assessments consider biological, psychological, social, and spiritual aspects of a person’s life. That broad view helps reveal underlying issues such as attachment problems, abandonment concerns, or caregiver stress.
He also works with people facing chronic pain, age-related matters, and co-occurring difficulties. Jorge provides services from New Jersey and speaks English and Spanish. He accepts international clients and offers online formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules sessions based on the listed process.
Approach and Access: Remote Therapy with Practical Methods
Jorge often combines client-centered care and cognitive-behavioral techniques to guide online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and building a trusting relationship so a person can explore what matters most. Cognitive-behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors, offering concrete tools to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change patterns that get in the way.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jorge will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. That collaborative process means techniques may shift over time as goals and circumstances change.
Online formats make sessions easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls let people meet face-to-face when visual connection helps. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief updates, between-session support, or a different way to express thoughts. These options increase flexibility and help match the mode of contact to what works best for each person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- New York, New Jersey
- Languages
- English, Spanish