About Shana
Shana Maltzman is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage anxiety, depression, grief, and low self-esteem. She brings 25 years of experience and a steady, practical style to sessions. Parents and adults often seek her support when life changes feel overwhelming or when relationships become strained.
She creates a calm, respectful space where people can talk through painful feelings and confusing patterns. Sessions focus on understanding what led to current struggles and on building small, doable steps forward.
Background and approach
The work often looks like identifying thought patterns, practicing new ways of communicating, and testing changes between sessions. Maltzman draws on a mix of client-centered and evidence-based methods to match each person’s needs. She pays attention to life transitions, caregiving stress, body image concerns, and experiences of loss.
Practical tools and conversations about meaning are both part of her approach. Her background includes long experience helping people cope with separation, family problems, aging and end-of-life concerns, and illness-related stress. That experience informs how she supports people facing anticipatory grief or complex caregiving roles.
Shana holds LCSW-R and LCSW credentials and practices in New Jersey. Sessions are offered in English and include options beyond video, such as phone, live chat, and text messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits the client.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s perspective. It helps when someone needs a nonjudgmental space to talk, to feel heard, and to clarify their own goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and tests small changes. It is practical for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress because it teaches tools to shift thinking and daily routines.
Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change. It is useful when someone feels stuck or unsure about making decisions related to health, relationships, or career direction.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adjust methods as progress unfolds. This is a collaborative process focused on what helps the individual move forward.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different needs. Video is good for deeper conversation and visual connection, while phone works well when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging allow short check-ins and flexible communication between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work even during transitions or caregiving responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York, New Jersey
- Languages
- English