Abani Dhewajoo , LCSW

Abani Dhewajoo, LCSW, helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, and changes in life. She focuses on building practical skills and stronger self-esteem. Her work often supports people dealing with anger, motivation, and issues related to pregnancy and childbirth and women’s issues.

She brings six years of therapy experience alongside a longer social work career. Sessions are warm and interactive. She listens without labels and treats each person with respect and compassion.

Her approach combines cognitive behavioral methods, dialectical behavior techniques, attachment-based ideas, client-centered values, and mindfulness practices. She adapts conversation and tools to fit each person’s situation rather than following a fixed script.

In sessions she helps clients notice unhelpful thoughts, learn new emotion regulation skills, and practice ways to improve communication. Work may include small homework tasks, mindfulness exercises, or trying new responses between meetings. The goal is steady, manageable change that fits daily life.

She has experience with adoption and foster care issues, domestic violence, family concerns, guilt and shame, and multicultural matters. People who want a supportive, strength-focused therapist who values their experience may find her style a good match.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people notice how early bonds affect current reactions; this can be useful for improving trust and communication. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and helps people test new ways of thinking to reduce anxiety and manage stress. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and increase calm in day-to-day life.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then try methods collaboratively. Adjustments happen over time based on what helps most in real life.

Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can fit during a shorter break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to check in between sessions or to use brief updates when a longer meeting isn’t possible. These options help people keep therapy consistent around work, family, and daily routines.