About Josephine
Josephine Ovalles is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, addictions, grief, and ADHD. She speaks English and Spanish and offers straightforward support for everyday struggles. Her manner is practical and focused on helping clients find coping strategies that fit their lives.
With 13 years of clinical experience in New York, Josephine draws on several proven therapy approaches to match each person’s needs.
Background and approach
She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral work to help change patterns of thinking and behavior. She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people live by their values even when emotions feel overwhelming. Her sessions emphasize clear communication and realistic goals.
Josephine helps people practice new ways of handling conflict, manage symptoms like low mood or sleep problems, and address substance use or compassion fatigue. She also supports those coping with trauma, bipolar symptoms, and the effects of long-term illness. Therapy is collaborative and paced to each person.
Josephine listens for what matters most, then suggests small skills and habits to try between sessions. She can help people work on relationship problems, rebuild trust after infidelity, set boundaries, or strengthen intimacy. People who prefer Spanish can work in that language.
Josephine offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, so sessions can fit different schedules and communication styles.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, value-driven actions even when feelings are strong. It’s often useful for anxiety, depression, and when someone is struggling to follow through on goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought and behavior patterns through practical exercises and homework. It is commonly used for anxiety, mood struggles, sleep difficulties, and attention-related challenges.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and daily routines, then recommend which methods to try first. That plan is adjusted over time based on what helps most, so the client and therapist make decisions together.
Online sessions can fit different life rhythms. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins or when someone prefers writing. These options make it simpler to keep regular contact, practice new skills between sessions, and schedule meetings around work, childcare, or medical appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- New York, Connecticut
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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