About Julissa
Julissa Aquan is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in New York with 11 years of experience. She helps people facing relationship strain, grief, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and big life changes. Her manner is warm and straightforward, aiming to make therapy feel doable rather than overwhelming.
Clients meet a clinician who listens first and asks simple questions next. Sessions focus on practical steps people can use between meetings. Julissa uses evidence-based methods alongside a person-centered attitude to match strategies to each situation.
Background and approach
Her background blends clinical practice with attention to cultural and identity factors. That means she pays attention to how work, family roles, and past hurts shape current stress and behavior. She draws from several approaches to tailor tools to what a person needs right now.
In sessions she works on skills for emotion regulation, clearer communication, and better daily routines. For someone coping with ADHD or chronic stress she might help build structure, prioritize tasks, and reduce overwhelm. For grief or trauma she offers steady support while helping a person find small forward moves.
Julissa aims for collaboration. She helps people set realistic goals and checks what is and isn't working. Her focus is on helping people regain balance and move toward the life they want, one manageable step at a time.
Therapeutic approaches over video and messaging
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without letting them block meaningful action; it’s useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and replacing them with more effective habits; it often helps with mood, stress, and attention-related challenges. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and can be helpful when relationship problems or trust issues get in the way of daily life.Choosing which approach to use is something the therapist does with the client. Julissa will listen to a person’s goals and preferences, try different strategies, and adjust the plan over time. That collaborative process helps find what fits best for the client’s situation and pace.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text sessions work well for shorter check-ins, homework review, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep progress moving between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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