About Josephina
Josephina Leveroni is a licensed clinical social worker who uses her five years of practice to help people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, and family conflict. She works from California and brings a direct, down-to-earth approach to sessions. People meet her as approachable and straightforward during conversations about hard topics.
Her style is plainspoken and collaborative. She aims to build an open space where clients can talk without feeling judged. She explains ideas in everyday language and focuses on small, practical steps people can try between visits.
Background and approach
Josephina draws on several therapy methods to match what a person needs. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships still affect current bonds. Cognitive behavioral ideas help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change patterns.
She also uses techniques from EMDR and dialectical behavior work when trauma or intense emotions are present. She has experience across hospital and residential settings and has worked with children, teens, and young adults earlier in her career. That background informs her plainspoken way of describing coping skills and routines for sleep, stress, and mood changes.
Josephina holds MA LICSW 124279 and CA LCSW 114721. Her work covers a wide range of concerns including addiction, grief, intimacy issues, ADHD, body image, caregiver stress, and communication problems. She offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging as session formats.
How Josephina's Approaches Work Online
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. In sessions this means talking about important people from your past and noticing how those habits show up in close relationships today. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking and acting. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, and sleep problems. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, EMDR, is used when trauma memories keep causing distress; it focuses on reducing the intensity of those memories and the feelings they bring.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then suggest what methods might help most. That choice is made together and can change as needs evolve.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video suits deeper conversations where seeing expressions matters. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Messaging and live chat work for quick updates, homework, or when someone prefers typed communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep continuity when schedules change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts, California
- Languages
- English