About Velma
Velma Jones is a licensed clinical social worker with 29 years of experience. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth help for people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship struggles, and stress. She uses approaches that center the client's experience and aims to create clear, manageable steps forward.
Sessions often focus on building communication skills, improving self-esteem, and handling difficult emotions like anger or panic. She helps people who are dealing with addiction, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, or challenges tied to aging and caregiving.
How Velma works
Velma brings attention to attachment patterns and how past relationships shape today’s reactions. That perspective is paired with cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavioral skills from dialectical behavior therapy to manage intense feelings. Mindfulness practices are also offered to help ground attention and reduce overwhelm.
Her background includes nearly three decades of work with adults navigating life transitions and workplace stress. She also supports people facing blended family issues, communication breakdowns, codependency, and caregiving strain. Velma works with clients who have complex, co-occurring concerns and helps them prioritize what to tackle first.
Sessions are collaborative and tailored to each person’s goals. She aims to make therapy straightforward, useful, and relevant to everyday life. People typically leave with concrete strategies they can try between sessions.
Velma lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Velma works with
The areas below are the ones Velma 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
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- 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
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 29 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Combining proven approaches with flexible online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds influence current relationships and emotional responses. It helps people understand patterns around trust, closeness, and separation so they can change how they relate to others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and mood concerns and gives concrete skills to try between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and difficulties and then recommend strategies from attachment work, CBT, DBT skills, and mindfulness as appropriate. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made based on what helps in real life.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send updates, ask quick questions, or check in between appointments. These formats increase flexibility and make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule.
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