About Isabel
Isabel Restrepo is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in New York with 13 years of professional experience. She helps people who are navigating relationship stress, LGBT concerns, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and challenges with attention and focus including ADHD. Isabel uses straightforward, practical conversations to help people feel clearer about next steps.
She begins by listening to each person's story and identifying strengths they already have. Sessions focus on skills that address concentration, motivation, impulses, and self-worth.
Background and approach
Isabel aims to make goals manageable so progress feels real and steady. Her background includes long-term work supporting people after trauma, and helping them rebuild routines and confidence. She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to respond to mood struggles, panic, obsessive thoughts, and self-harm concerns.
Her experience also includes multicultural and prejudice-related stressors. Isabel offers work on communication problems, attachment patterns, and difficult relationship dynamics like non-monogamy and polyamory as individuals explore what they want. She also supports people coping with seasonal mood shifts and personality-related challenges.
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish. Isabel believes change is a collaboration - she partners with each person to set clear, achievable goals and practices that fit day-to-day life.
How Isabel Uses Practical Approaches Online
Isabel uses evidence-based techniques to address attention and trauma-related concerns in simple, actionable ways. One approach focuses on building attention and routine skills to help with concentration and impulsivity; sessions teach small, repeatable habits that can improve day-to-day focus. Another approach targets trauma and stress responses by helping people name triggers, learn grounding or breathing practices, and slowly rebuild a sense of safety and predictability.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Isabel works with each person to review their goals, habits, and preferences, then tests techniques that fit their life. She adjusts methods over time based on what helps most, so therapy evolves with the person's needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for in-depth conversations and practicing skills together. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is a concern. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins, quick problem-solving, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or busy family schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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