About Brittanie
Brittanie Pena is a licensed clinical social worker with 16 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, and relationship struggles. She practices in New Jersey and offers care in both English and Spanish. Her work is grounded in listening closely and helping people find steps that fit their life.
Her approach centers on the person in front of her. She uses client-centered methods to build trust and understand what matters most.
Background and approach
From there she draws on practical skills from cognitive behavioral therapy to challenge unhelpful thinking. She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation and coping tools. Brittanie commonly helps people facing trauma and abuse, attachment and abandonment concerns, and the effects of immigration stress.
She also supports those dealing with ADHD, depression, bipolar symptoms, and compassion fatigue. Relationship issues such as communication problems, commitment concerns, and separation are part of her focus. In sessions she emphasizes clear, doable strategies.
That can mean short behavioral experiments, communication scripts to try at home, or grounding exercises to manage overwhelming feelings. She likes to break problems into small steps so progress feels manageable. Her practice includes coaching around career and parenting challenges, and work on self-esteem, body image, and forgiveness.
Sessions are offered via video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Therapy uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and clients begin by completing a short matching questionnaire.
Approach-driven care for online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and priorities. The therapist listens with attention and helps people identify goals they want to reach, so treatment fits their life and values.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact. It uses clear exercises and small experiments to change thinking patterns and reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) teaches specific skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships, such as grounding, distress tolerance, and communication techniques.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Brittanie will talk with clients about their needs, goals, and what methods feel most useful. She adapts the plan as progress is made so the approach stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers options to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video calls are useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging allow brief check-ins or support between sessions. These formats make it easier to attend appointments, try new strategies, and keep therapy consistent despite a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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