About Viviane
Viviane Ngwa welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain, or life transitions. She offers steady support for those facing trauma, career questions, or moments of doubt. Viviane is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW with eight years of professional experience and practices from Illinois.
She creates a calm space where people can talk honestly about what matters. Sessions focus on practical steps and small changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
The approach is warm and straightforward, with attention to each person’s values and goals. Viviane blends several therapy styles to meet real-life needs. She uses techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and build action.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. Client-centered methods keep the conversation grounded in respect and empathy. Her work also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotional regulation and Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas when relationship patterns are central.
These tools are used flexibly to match each person’s situation, whether dealing with abandonment, immigration stress, or questions about life purpose. People who choose Viviane typically want clear, doable steps and a supportive listener. She helps parents navigate fatherhood concerns, addresses adoption and foster care matters, and supports those managing guilt, shame, or isolation.
Conversations are paced to the person, with attention to what feels most helpful right now.
Approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters most and take steps toward those values even when difficult thoughts and feelings show up. It suits clients who want a values-driven way to make changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying small behavior experiments to test new ways of coping. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and day-to-day problem solving.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and try techniques that fit the person. Decisions about methods are collaborative and can change as needs evolve.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation for longer work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat or text can suit quick check-ins or ongoing coaching, and messaging supports short reflections between sessions. These options offer flexibility for different schedules, energy levels, and practical constraints while keeping therapy focused on real progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Nevada, Illinois
- Languages
- English