About Julissa
Julissa Aquan is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in New York with 11 years of experience. She focuses on helping people face relationship problems, grief, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. Her manner is warm and collaborative, with a straightforward way of working that aims to make difficult topics easier to talk about.
Julissa uses practical tools and honest conversation to help people notice patterns that cause pain. She blends evidence-based methods with a focus on each person's story and values.
How Julissa works
Sessions are meant to help people build coping skills and make choices that fit their life. Her background emphasizes connection and attachment, so she pays attention to how past relationships shape present struggles. She also works with issues like addiction, eating and sleeping problems, ADHD, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and career concerns.
Julissa guides clients through grief, trauma, and changes such as separation and blended family challenges. Therapy with Julissa is collaborative. She invites clients to set goals and test small changes between sessions.
Skills may include grounding, emotion regulation, behavioral experiments, and values-based actions drawn from approaches like cognitive behavioral work and acceptance strategies. People who prefer a respectful, steady, and practical clinician often find this style helpful. Julissa aims to help clients reconnect with their strengths, manage intense emotions, and take manageable steps toward a more balanced life.
Julissa lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
What Julissa works with
The areas below are the ones Julissa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
How Julissa's Approaches Translate to Online Care
Julissa uses approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in session. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice what matters most to them and take small steps toward those values, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and aims to strengthen emotional connection and self-understanding, which is useful for relationship and intimacy concerns.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Julissa works together with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and pace. She tests practical tools in sessions and adjusts the plan based on what helps most, so treatment is collaborative and goal-oriented.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful when visual connection matters, phone can be shorter or easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text works for brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or health needs while keeping the focus on usable skills and steady progress.
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