About Ivanilda
Ivanilda Silva is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with 17 years of experience. She brings a creative, person-focused approach and often blends expressive arts with talk-based work. She practices from Massachusetts and connects with people in English, including those outside the U.S.
She focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship issues. She also helps people coping with grief, parenting strain, career changes, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to clarify what matters to each person and build manageable steps forward. Her approach mixes practical tools and attention to feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to name unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors.
Attachment-based ideas and Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) help people understand patterns in close relationships. Ivanilda emphasizes strengths and collaboration. Client-Centered Therapy underpins her work, meaning she listens closely and shapes sessions around each person's pace and goals.
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people accept difficult emotions while moving toward valued actions. She has a background in inpatient and outpatient settings and has run workshops and support groups. Her varied experience informs a flexible style that blends practical coaching with emotional work.
People who prefer a respectful, creative, and steady guide may find her approach helpful.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Ivanilda often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, and to take small steps toward what matters in life. She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try practical behavior changes that reduce symptoms.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She listens to each person's goals, preferences, and challenges, and together they decide which methods to try. The plan can be adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and deeper conversation, phone can fit a work break or low-bandwidth need, live chat works for quicker check-ins, and messaging is useful for ongoing notes and short reflections. These options make scheduling more flexible and let people keep therapy consistent around busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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