Danica Rivello , LCSW

Danica Rivello is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, mood disorders, and life changes. She focuses on practical tools and clear conversation to help people manage symptoms and move toward goals. Her approach is steady and straightforward, aimed at people who want real skills they can use day to day.

Danica works with adults facing depression, bipolar disorder, trauma and grief. She also supports people wrestling with relationship concerns, intimacy issues, addiction, parenting strain, and identity matters including LGBT topics. She pays attention to how physical illness, caregiving, or body image affect emotional health.

Her style is warm and interactive. Danica blends cognitive behavioral ideas with acceptance-based and mindfulness strategies to help people shift unhelpful thoughts and build valued habits. She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy for emotion regulation and practical skills training.

Sessions are collaborative and tailored to the person in front of her. She listens for strengths, then suggests small, doable changes like different ways to respond to stress, improve sleep, or manage cravings. She also helps people clarify career choices and cope with major life transitions.

Based in New Jersey, Danica offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. She aims to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where people can speak honestly and begin to try new ways of living and relating.

How Danica's Approaches Translate to Online Sessions

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small steps toward those values while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going and practicing new responses to reduce symptoms. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers practical skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness.

Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then try techniques that fit those needs. Over time they adjust strategies based on what helps most, working collaboratively to build a plan that feels useful and manageable.

Online sessions use video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make regular work on goals possible despite busy schedules. Video sessions let people practice skills and receive visual feedback, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text messaging work well for quick check-ins or coaching between longer meetings. These options give flexibility so people can fit therapy into their lives and try methods that match their rhythm and needs.