About Pertrina
Pertrina Works uses client-centered care to guide practical change. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 13 years of experience based in New York. Her approach focuses on clear goals and steady support for everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns.
She works with people who want straightforward help with parenting challenges and coaching to build healthier routines. Pertrina pays attention to attachment themes, adoption and foster care issues, and concerns tied to caregiving or role strain.
Background and approach
She also addresses body image, codependency, and communication problems in relationships. Her style blends Client-Centered Therapy with cognitive and skills-based methods. That means sessions often pair open listening with specific strategies to test and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She aims to keep plans simple and practical so people can try things between sessions. Pertrina draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools when emotions feel overwhelming. Those tools focus on managing big feelings, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening relationships.
She tailors a plan to each person rather than using a one-size-fits-all method. Sessions are offered in English and scheduled around what works for each person. Pertrina emphasizes a calm, non-judgmental space where people can speak honestly.
Her work is collaborative and centered on the client’s goals and daily life.
How these approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. The therapist offers empathy and reflection to help people clarify their goals and feel heard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, identifies unhelpful thoughts and tests new behaviors to reduce anxiety and low mood. It often includes simple exercises between sessions to build new habits. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing strong emotions, tolerating distress, and improving communication in relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Pertrina will collaborate with each person to choose or blend methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. The plan can change as progress is made or new priorities appear, so the person helps shape each step.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people read facial cues and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging provide quick access for brief updates, homework review, or ongoing coaching throughout the week. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and keep momentum between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English