About Sirribi
Sirribi Atanga is a licensed independent clinical social worker who draws on eight years of experience helping people navigate life changes and emotional pain. She is based in New York and works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She also supports people coping with parenting strain, career shifts, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
Sirribi uses straightforward, compassionate listening to understand what matters most to each person.
Background and approach
She centers cultural humility in sessions and looks for practical ways to build on a person's strengths. Sessions focus on small steps that can make daily life feel more manageable. Her approach combines tools from acceptance and commitment work, cognitive behavioral ideas, and mindfulness practices.
Solution-focused methods are used to set concrete goals and test what helps in real life. The aim is to help people notice patterns, try different responses, and choose actions aligned with their values. Sirribi pays attention to attachment, abandonment, and identity questions that often show up after loss or big transitions.
She also addresses issues like body image, chronic illness, codependency, and communication problems. People looking for help with sleeping, anger, or managing strong emotions may find sessions that teach coping skills and clearer problem-solving. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth.
She helps people break big problems into steps and practices new habits between meetings. To begin, a short matching process and scheduling step are required so people can start at a pace that fits their lives.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Sirribi commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and emotions without getting stuck, then choose actions that match their values. This can help with anxiety, depression, and coping during life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve daily routines. It can be useful for anxiety, sleep problems, anger, and mood swings.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. Sirribi works together with each person to decide which approaches fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying tools, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when meeting in person is difficult. Phone sessions or shorter live chat check-ins are handy when bandwidth is limited or a quick follow-up is needed. Text-based messaging can support ongoing reflection and small, frequent check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to fit regular work on goals into busy schedules and to keep momentum while testing new skills.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New York, Colorado, New Jersey, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English