About Roberta
Roberta Gelfand is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New Jersey who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, relationship strain, grief, and other life changes. She offers a calm, direct presence for clients who find it hard to start conversations about tough topics. Roberta speaks plainly and will listen without judgment while helping people set practical goals.
Her style is warm and client-centered while also straightforward. Sessions focus on clear steps and real-life strategies rather than vague theorizing.
Background and approach
She draws on methods that help people notice unhelpful thoughts, try new behaviors, and build routines that reduce overwhelm. Roberta blends several therapy approaches to match each person’s needs. She uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people live by their values, cognitive behavioral techniques to change patterns that cause distress, and mindfulness skills to calm the mind.
Motivational interviewing is used when people feel stuck about making changes. In practical terms she and the client create simple goals and check progress each session. Conversations include identifying barriers, practicing new skills, and adjusting plans when needed.
The focus is on usable tools for day-to-day life, such as sleep habits, managing attention, handling conflict, or coping with loss. Roberta has five years of clinical experience and works with adults on a range of concerns including caregiving stress, attachment issues, eating and sleeping problems, career worries, and compassion fatigue.
She aims to help people build self-awareness and self-compassion as they move toward their goals.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Roberta commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions that match those values even when emotions are hard. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and decisions about life changes.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical exercises to change patterns that maintain distress. CBT is often helpful for sleep problems, anxiety, ADHD-related struggles, and mood regulation.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Roberta will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan based on what helps. Clients are invited to give feedback so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for more in-depth work and real-time interaction, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging lets people share updates between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to use the format that feels most comfortable.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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