About Julissa
Julissa Aquan is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in New York. She has 11 years of experience helping people manage big life changes, relationship strain, grief, and emotional distress. Julissa works in a warm, respectful way and focuses on practical steps people can try between sessions.
She uses several therapeutic methods to match each person's needs. Sessions often include learning new coping skills, practicing communication, and noticing patterns that get in the way.
Background and approach
Julissa blends evidence-based tools with attention to identity and life context so recommendations fit each person's reality. People come to address anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, and stress from caregiving or illness. She also supports concerns like eating and sleeping problems, intimacy-related issues, anger, low self-esteem, and career stress.
Additional focuses include attachment and abandonment concerns, blended family issues, and coping after separation or loss. Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She aims to make therapy feel like a team effort where clients set goals and try small, doable changes.
Sessions are spoken plainly, with clear suggestions and space to process feelings. Julissa offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for flexible care. She helps people figure out which format and approach will fit their schedule and goals.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify their values and take small steps toward them, even when strong emotions show up. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and major life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, or sleep problems. It often includes practical exercises to try between sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and trust, and it is helpful for intimacy-related issues and attachment concerns.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they can try an approach and adjust it if something does not fit.
Online therapy offers practical benefits with multiple ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share thoughts in writing and use shorter, more frequent contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and different routines.
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does Julissa help with?
What is her therapeutic style like?
How much experience does she have?
What credentials and location are listed?
In which languages are sessions offered?
Which session formats are available?
How does cost and billing work?
What are the first steps to begin working together?
Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult 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)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English