About Josephine
Josephine Ovalles, LCSW, offers direct, practical help for people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, grief, or relationship strain. She speaks English and Spanish and focuses on clear steps clients can use day to day. She is based in New York and brings 13 years of clinical experience to sessions.
Josephine uses concrete techniques to reduce symptoms and improve coping. She draws on cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
She also relies on attachment-based work to strengthen how people relate to others and client-centered methods to keep the conversation focused on each person’s needs. Her approach is collaborative and straightforward. Sessions typically include skill-building, problem solving, and planning small experiments between meetings.
She supports people facing addiction, bipolar mood concerns, trauma and abuse, sleep problems, ADHD, and compassion fatigue among other issues. Josephine has experience in crisis work, group and individual therapy, and leadership roles in clinical settings. Her LCSW credential reflects clinical social work licensure in the United States.
She applies what she has learned to practical goals like improving communication, managing anger, and finding structure for daily life. Many find the focus on skills and relationship patterns helpful when navigating separation, infidelity, immigration stress, chronic illness, or parenting challenges. The first sessions tend to clarify priorities, set achievable goals, and agree on which strategies to try next.
Therapeutic approaches explained for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then pick actions that match their values. It can help when worry, avoidance, or low motivation block daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing patterns of behavior that keep problems going. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and many coping challenges.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist and client review goals, preferences, and what feels helpful, then try techniques together. This collaborative process allows adjustments over time so sessions stay practical and relevant to each person’s life.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed, and text or chat can support quick questions, ongoing coaching, or shorter reflections between meetings. These formats offer flexibility to fit sessions into busy days and to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- New York, Connecticut
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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