About Julissa
Julissa Aquan is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in New York with 11 years of experience. She focuses on practical support for people facing anxiety, grief, relationship strain, and major life changes. Julissa aims to meet clients where they are and build on what already works in their lives.
She takes a warm, collaborative approach. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. She listens closely, helps clarify what matters most, and offers simple strategies to manage stress, mood, and day-to-day difficulties.
Background and approach
Julissa uses a mix of therapy methods to match each person's needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to address unhelpful thinking and behavior. She also uses acceptance and commitment techniques to build values-based action and emotional flexibility.
Attachment-based and client-centered principles shape how she connects with people. That means attention to relationship patterns and a respectful, nonjudgmental stance. These approaches are often used alongside dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation and coping tools.
She works with a wide range of concerns including trauma, addiction, parenting strain, sleep and eating issues, career stress, and ADHD-related struggles. Julissa aims to help people feel steadier, think more clearly, and take steps that match their goals. Her practice is intended to be a place for steady support.
New clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions that fit their life and needs.
How Julissa's Approaches Work Online
Julissa blends cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in a way that fits remote formats. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral changes, which can be practiced between video or phone sessions. ACT helps people notice difficult feelings and choose actions that match their values, often through brief mindfulness and value-mapping exercises that translate well to online work.Finding the right fit is collaborative. The therapist will discuss goals and try approaches that match a client's needs and preferences. Together they will adjust techniques over time, tracking what helps and changing course when something doesn't feel useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when interaction matters. Phone sessions can be a simpler check-in or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to send brief updates, try shorter exercises, or get support between longer sessions. These options help people keep momentum and fit help into work, caregiving, or other daily obligations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult 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)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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