About Geraldine
Geraldine Nisi is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy challenges, and parenting strain. She offers clear, steady support for people coping with life changes, career shifts, anger, and compassion fatigue. Geraldine prefers to be called Gerri and speaks English and Italian.
Gerri keeps sessions direct and interactive. She listens first, then helps people set small goals they can try between meetings.
How Geraldine works
Her style blends focused problem-solving with attention to emotions so practical steps match what feels doable. Over 25 years she has worked in schools, hospitals, and community mental health clinics across New York. That variety shaped a flexible approach for different kinds of daily stress and longer-term difficulties like chronic illness, caregiver strain, or midlife transitions.
Gerri draws on methods such as client-centered work, cognitive behavioral tools, and dialectical skills to help people change unhelpful thoughts and build steady coping. She also uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques when people want faster, goal-oriented work. Sessions aim to help people handle family of origin issues, blended family challenges, divorce and separation, infidelity, isolation, and life purpose questions.
Gerri helps with aging and geriatric concerns, cancer and chronic illness adjustment, codependency, communication problems, jealousy, and related stressors. People who prefer conversational, practical therapy may find her approach useful. She supports clients in weighing options, trying new behaviors, and tracking what helps most over time.
Geraldine lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Geraldine works with
The areas below are the ones Geraldine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English, Italian |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
How Gerri’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered work focuses on the person and their experience. The therapist listens deeply and follows the client’s lead to build trust and clarify goals. This approach can help with feeling heard, with self-esteem issues, and with deciding next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and actions. It uses simple exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds practical skills for emotion regulation and managing strong feelings when stress or relationship conflict arises.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Gerri collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She adapts techniques over time so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people use face-to-face time for deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick reflections, brief problem-solving, or ongoing encouragement between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between meetings.
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