About Danica
Danica Rivello is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 25 years of experience. She offers a warm, straightforward style that helps people talk through stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and life changes. Her manner is calm and practical, aimed at making conversations feel easier for someone who is worried or overwhelmed.
She uses a mix of approaches to tailor sessions to each person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and build new habits.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) supports people in clarifying values and taking small steps toward them. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills are used for emotion regulation and coping when feelings feel intense. Danica has long experience supporting people with depression, bipolar disorder, trauma and grief.
She also helps with relationship struggles, parenting stress, addiction concerns, self-esteem, eating and sleeping issues, and ADHD-related challenges. Her work includes coaching around career questions and handling compassion fatigue. Her style is interactive and practical.
Sessions focus on clear strategies, practice between meetings, and checking what actually helps day to day. She avoids labels that feel stigmatizing and focuses on respectful, sensitive care. Danica practices from New Jersey and conducts sessions in English.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose the format that fits their life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take small, meaningful steps in that direction. It supports coping with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by building values-driven action rather than chasing perfect feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns, and some ADHD-related habits.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening communication. It can help when mood swings or strong reactions make daily life harder.
Danica treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try strategies, and adjust the plan over time so the work fits real life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people work face to face from wherever they are. Phone sessions can be a good shorter check-in or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit brief conversations into a busy day or to maintain progress between sessions. These options give flexibility for different schedules, comfort levels, and practical needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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