Colette Lettieri , LCSW

Colette Lettieri is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York with ten years of clinical experience. She places a clear emphasis on empowerment and helps people who want more confidence, direction, or relief from life’s big transitions. Colette encourages honest conversation and aims to create a calm space where feelings and ideas can be shared without judgment.

Her work often focuses on relationship concerns, family matters, and self-esteem. She supports people navigating career shifts, divorce or separation, and midlife reassessment. Women’s issues and self-love are recurring themes in her practice, and she addresses caregiver stress and communication problems as part of that work.

Colette uses client-centered methods that keep the person’s experience central. Narrative approaches help people reframe unhelpful stories about themselves. Solution-focused tools are used to set small, achievable goals and track progress.

Sessions are practical and goal-oriented while staying attentive to emotions. Clients can expect to talk through what matters now, identify next steps, and practice ways to build confidence and purpose. Colette also brings experience with executive and professional coaching into conversations about career direction.

She offers appointments in English and provides sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that fits their needs.

How her approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy places the person’s experience at the center of every session and focuses on listening, validation, and supporting choices. Online sessions let that same attentive listening happen through video, phone, or messaging so people can speak at their own pace and set the topics that matter most.

Narrative Therapy looks at the stories people tell about themselves and helps rewrite limiting narratives. In remote sessions, this can mean identifying unhelpful patterns in everyday life and practicing new ways of talking about problems between meetings.

Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on small, practical steps and clear goals. It works well online because progress can be tracked between sessions, and short check-ins by text or live chat keep momentum going.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Colette will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences, and adjust them as progress is made.

Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a break at work. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing support, and times when typing is more convenient than talking.