About Jorge
Jorge Abreu is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New Jersey who brings 32 years of experience to therapy. He works in English and Spanish and focuses on practical help for problems like anxiety, depression, stress, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, and addictions. He uses a client-centered stance that puts the person's experience first.
That means sessions start with listening and building trust, then move toward changes that feel realistic for everyday life.
Background and approach
Jorge also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and shift behaviors that get in the way of goals. His background blends insight-oriented and existential thinking. He helps people reflect on meaning, choices, and values when life feels confusing or stuck.
Mindfulness practices are used to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness when worries or strong feelings arise. Jorge’s assessments take a broad view, looking at biological, psychological, social, and spiritual influences on a person’s struggles. That information guides a plan that targets symptoms and relationship patterns, while also addressing underlying struggles such as attachment or abandonment concerns.
Practical tools and straightforward conversation are central to his work. He helps clients set manageable goals, practice new skills between sessions, and track progress. Online formats are available for convenience, including video, phone, chat, and messaging.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy places the client's needs and perspective at the center of the work. In online sessions this looks like a calm, focused space where the therapist listens carefully and helps clients set goals that matter to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches clear strategies to change them, which works well in video or messaging formats where homework and worksheets can be shared and reviewed. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm; these practices can be guided in a live call or practiced between shorter check-ins by message.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then try methods together and adjust as needed. Therapy is collaborative, and choosing the best mix of techniques happens over the first few sessions.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skill teaching and deeper work. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins and ongoing support easier between sessions. These options help people keep therapy consistent when schedules or locations change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- New York, New Jersey
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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