About Brittanie
Brittanie Pena is a licensed clinical social worker with 16 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She practices in New Jersey and offers sessions in English and Spanish. Brittanie focuses on clear, practical steps that clients can use right away.
She works with people facing trauma, attachment concerns, ADHD, immigration-related stress, and domestic violence aftermath. Brittanie also supports those dealing with work strain, parenting challenges, and difficult life transitions.
Background and approach
Her goal is to help clients feel steadier and more in control of daily life. In sessions she listens closely and adapts her approach to each person. Brittanie blends client-centered methods with cognitive behavioral strategies and mindfulness exercises.
She uses skills from dialectical behavior therapy and emotionally-focused methods when those tools fit a client's needs. Therapy focuses on building practical skills for emotion regulation, clearer communication, and stronger self-worth. Clients often work on managing anxiety symptoms, reducing overwhelm, and improving relationship patterns.
Brittanie also offers coaching-style support for career concerns and coping with big changes. Her bilingual background allows her to connect with Spanish-speaking clients and bring cultural awareness into the work. Sessions aim to be straightforward, respectful, and geared toward meaningful change over time.
Blending practical approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and adapting to what each person needs, helping people feel understood and guiding them toward their own goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful habits. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) adds concrete tools for regulating intense emotions and improving distress tolerance when feelings become overwhelming.Brittanie works together with clients to choose which approach or combination will best fit their situation. That choice is collaborative - goals, comfort with techniques, and day-to-day needs guide the plan. She checks in regularly and adapts methods as progress is made so the work stays relevant and useful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different schedules and preferences. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a quick check-in, and messaging supports brief coaching or ongoing skill practice between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving routines and to continue consistent care when life gets busy.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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