About Josephine
Josephine Ovalles is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, substance concerns, relationship struggles, and life transitions. She speaks English and Spanish and brings a calm, practical approach to sessions. Her style is direct and compassionate, focused on real steps people can use between meetings.
With 13 years of clinical experience and licenses in New York and Connecticut, Josephine draws on several proven methods to tailor care.
Background and approach
She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help change unhelpful thinking and behavior. She also applies acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and take meaningful action. Josephine pays attention to how attachment and patterns from the past affect current relationships.
She helps clients improve communication, manage anger, and rebuild trust after infidelity. She offers guidance for intimacy concerns, parenting stress, sleeping problems, and coping with grief or chronic health challenges. Sessions may include skills practice, problem solving, and focused conversations about goals.
She works with people on issues related to addiction, bipolar disorder, ADHD, trauma, and compassion fatigue. Josephine aims to make therapy usable and relevant to everyday life. People who choose her often want straightforward tools and collaborative planning.
She supports steps for career transitions, self-esteem work, and recovering from isolation or intense loss. Practical next steps are a core part of her approach.
Therapeutic approaches for online care and fit
Josephine often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying small, practical behavioral changes to reduce symptoms. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and patterns that keep people stuck.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients clarify what matters most to them and take committed action toward those values, even when difficult feelings appear. This approach is useful for coping with chronic stress, grief, and recurring painful emotions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adapt methods over time. Clients and the therapist collaborate to test strategies and adjust what’s needed.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and skills practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text messaging can suit brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or times when typing fits a busy day. These options help fit therapy into work, family life, and other daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- New York, Connecticut
- Languages
- English, Spanish