About Gerard
Gerard Riconda is a licensed clinical social worker with 28 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, ADHD, mood shifts, and major life changes. He works with adults facing depression, grief, anger, career doubts, and relationship concerns. Gerard aims to create a calm space where people can talk through what’s most urgent to them and build practical steps forward.
Gerard earned his Master of Social Work from Fordham University School of Social Services.
Background and approach
Early in his career he worked in foster care settings and in medical social work at a rehabilitation hospital, where he supported people recovering from amputation, stroke, and head injury. Much of his practice has focused on people with complex or multiple diagnoses over nearly three decades. He uses common-sense empathy as a starting point.
Gerard mixes approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and EMDR to meet each person’s needs. He prefers to choose methods alongside the person in session rather than assume a single fixed model. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules.
Gerard practices in New York as an LCSW and conducts sessions in English. His style is straightforward and focused on small, achievable changes that add up over time. People who want a collaborative process and clear next steps may find his practical, experience-based approach helpful.
He encourages an open conversation about goals and what will feel most useful in day-to-day life.
How Gerard’s approaches translate to online care
Gerard draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try small behavior changes that can ease mood and anxiety. He also uses acceptance and commitment therapy to help people clarify values, accept difficult feelings, and take committed action toward a meaningful life. EMDR is used when past trauma or distressing memories are a barrier to moving forward and can be part of a gradual plan to reduce their hold.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Gerard will talk with the person about goals, past experiences with therapy, and what feels most workable. Together they narrow down methods and test what helps, adjusting as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy lives. Video works well for longer sessions and visual cues, phone can be a simpler option with lower bandwidth needs, and chat or messaging suit quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep continuity, fit therapy into a workday, and try different formats to see what helps most.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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