About Danica
Danica Rivello is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 25 years of clinical experience. She offers a warm, interactive style and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, addiction, and major life changes. Danica aims to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where people can talk honestly about what’s going on for them.
Her work often addresses depression, bipolar disorder, trauma and abuse, grief, and relationship or intimacy-related issues.
How Danica works
She also supports people with ADHD, self-esteem struggles, sleep and eating concerns, and compassion fatigue. Danica uses practical tools to help people cope and make steady progress. Danica blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy with mindfulness and existential ideas.
She adapts techniques to each person’s needs and prefers an approach that is collaborative and solution-oriented. Sessions focus on skills you can use between meetings and steps that fit your life. Over 25 years she has worked with a wide range of concerns and brings experience supporting people through complicated mood disorders, grief, and life transitions.
Her clinical background includes motivational interviewing and tailored interventions that aim to reduce distress and increase functioning. Danica practices in New Jersey as an LCSW and delivers care in multiple online formats. She works in English and does not accept international clients.
The first step is a short matching questionnaire to help connect you and schedule sessions.
Danica lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Danica works with
The areas below are the ones Danica selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| 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 Danica’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice their inner experience, clarify what matters to them, and take small actions that align with their values. It can help when anxiety, mood shifts, or life changes get in the way of daily living.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleeping problems, and coping with stressful situations.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. Those skills can be useful for intense mood swings, relationship stress, and learning steady coping tools.
Finding the best fit is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about their goals, try approaches that match those goals, and adjust methods based on what feels most helpful. This lets the work stay practical and focused on real-life changes.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or you need a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging work well for quick updates, ongoing coaching, or when writing out thoughts helps. These options make scheduling more flexible and allow therapy to fit into busy days.
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