About Judy
Dr. Judy Ricci offers practical, goal-focused care grounded in cognitive-behavioral principles. She is a VA Psychologist and a New York Psychologist with seven years of clinical experience.
Dr. Ricci focuses on helping people who struggle with anxiety, stress, depression, and health-related challenges. Her sessions tend to be straightforward and skills-based.
She teaches thought and behavior strategies to reduce worry and improve day-to-day functioning. Mindfulness and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy tools are used to help people notice difficult feelings without getting stuck in them.
Background and approach
Dr. Ricci also draws on motivational interviewing to support change around habits like smoking or sleep routines. She helps people set manageable goals and build small routines that add up over time.
Many clients work on coping with chronic pain, illness, or life changes alongside mood concerns. Her work emphasizes clear steps and measurable progress. Dr.
Ricci helps people break problems into parts and practice new responses between sessions. That approach often includes short exercises to try during the week. People who choose her typically want hands-on strategies and a practical plan.
She combines cognitive-behavioral techniques with mindfulness and motivational methods to suit each person’s needs. Sessions are offered from Virginia and conducted in English.
How ACT, CBT, and Mindfulness work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings and move toward what matters despite them. Online ACT sessions focus on values clarification and simple exercises to increase meaningful action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with step-by-step practice. In remote CBT sessions, clients learn specific skills like thought records and behavioral experiments to try between meetings. Mindfulness Therapy teaches skills to pay attention on purpose and reduce reactivity. Online mindfulness work often uses short guided practices and brief homework to build steady habits.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods, and adjust the plan together. That collaborative process helps match ACT, CBT, or mindfulness to what the person needs and prefers.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let therapists demonstrate exercises and observe subtle reactions, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for ongoing coaching and quick touchpoints between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week and keep momentum on skill practice.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Maryland, New York, Virginia
- Languages
- English
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