About Rikki
Rikki Shanberg is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in New York. She uses practical, evidence-based techniques to help people manage stress, anxiety, mood swings, and relationship strain. Her style is warm and non-judgmental, and she aims to build a trusting working relationship with each person she sees.
Rikki completed a Master’s degree at Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University. She has worked in several settings and with varied populations, which shaped her flexible approach to care.
Background and approach
She draws on methods like cognitive behavior techniques and behavior-focused strategies to address symptoms and daily struggles. Her work often focuses on anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and behavior differences linked to autism and related conditions. She also helps people navigate relationship conflict, parenting challenges, grief, intimacy concerns, anger, and career stress.
Sessions tend to be practical and skills-oriented, with an emphasis on small steps that make life easier. Rikki blends supportive counseling with structured interventions. She listens first, then helps set clear goals.
From there she collaborates on techniques to reduce distress and improve functioning. The aim is useful, achievable change rather than lengthy theory talks. She welcomes conversations about specific goals and needs and can explain how her background fits a particular situation.
People interested in meeting can learn how her approach might match their priorities and next steps.
How practical therapeutic techniques work online
Rikki uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills people can use right away. Cognitive behavior techniques help identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with more useful thoughts and actions; this can reduce anxiety, manage mood swings, and improve daily functioning. Behavior-focused strategies emphasize small, repeatable changes in routines and responses to reduce symptoms and build healthy habits, which is often helpful for anxiety, bipolar management, and behavior differences.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods match their goals and daily life. Together they set clear, achievable goals and adjust techniques as progress is made so the work stays relevant and practical.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing, flexible communication between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English