About Brittanie
Brittanie Pena is a licensed clinical social worker who uses a practical, person-centered approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship problems, and life transitions. She speaks English and Spanish and brings 16 years of experience working with a wide range of concerns. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people make changes that matter in day-to-day life.
In sessions she focuses on clear goals and skills people can actually use outside the room.
How Brittanie works
Brittanie blends client-centered work with structured techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. She also draws on emotionally-focused and mindfulness approaches when those fit a person’s needs. She has particular experience helping people cope with trauma and abuse, attachment and abandonment issues, immigration-related stress, domestic violence, and parenting challenges.
She also addresses concerns such as ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, intimacy issues, communication problems, and work-related strain. Brittanie helps people build stronger self-esteem, manage anger, and navigate separation or blended family transitions. Her sessions often include strategies for regulating emotions, improving communication, and changing unhelpful thinking patterns.
People can expect collaborative planning and practical homework to try between meetings. Brittanie aims to create an accepting atmosphere where clients feel heard and can experiment with new ways of coping. Brittanie practices in New Jersey and offers services across modalities that suit different needs.
She works with clients who want both short-term skills and longer-term change, and adapts her approach to fit each person’s goals and background.
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What Brittanie works with
The areas below are the ones Brittanie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How Brittanie’s Methods Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person’s experience. The therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects feelings, and helps people name what matters so they can set realistic goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical steps to change patterns that cause distress. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, combines skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and effective communication to reduce reactivity and improve relationships.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Brittanie will talk with clients about their goals, try different techniques in session, and adjust the plan based on what helps. She works with people to find a fit between the approaches and each person’s needs and preferences rather than using one fixed method.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video helps preserve face-to-face interaction, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins, and messaging supports shorter or ongoing touchpoints between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and varied routines.
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