About Evangeline
Evangeline Benitez is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in New York with three years of clinical experience. She focuses on common struggles like anxiety, depression, stress, and ADHD and offers straightforward support people can use day to day. Her tone is direct and caring, aimed at parents and adults who want practical help.
Benitez uses a developmentally aware, person-centered approach that looks at each person's strengths and challenges.
Background and approach
She helps people build emotional awareness and simple coping skills they can practice between sessions. For those with attention or mood concerns she emphasizes strategies to manage impulsivity, worry, and low mood. Sessions are collaborative and geared toward clear, manageable goals.
She works with communication problems, family stress, and relationship patterns by teaching ways to listen and respond differently. When trauma or obsessive thinking comes up, she focuses on steady steps to reduce distress and regain routine.
Benitez supports parents who want tools for parenting strain and for young people who need help with mood regulation and behavior challenges such as disruptive mood dysregulation disorder. She also addresses postpartum depression, social anxiety, panic, and issues around guilt and shame. Her practice emphasizes practical tools over labels.
People leave sessions with specific strategies for emotional regulation, planning, and improving daily routines. The goal is clearer thinking, better coping, and more balanced days.
How evidence-based techniques are used in remote sessions
Many of her sessions use straightforward, evidence-based techniques that focus on skills people can practice between meetings. One approach emphasizes building emotional awareness and regulation skills to help with anxiety, mood swings, and impulsivity; it uses short exercises and real-life practice to make changes feel manageable. Another approach targets obsessive thinking and panic by teaching step-by-step strategies for responding differently to distressing thoughts and sensations, reducing their hold over daily life.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust what isn’t helping. Over a few sessions the pair decide which methods fit best and focus on practical steps that match the client’s needs and preferences.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy schedules and varying needs. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and role play. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick coaching, ongoing prompts, and between-session support. Together these options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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