Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
How Danica works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Years in practice
- 25
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Danica
Danica Rivello is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 25 years of experience. She uses clear, practical methods to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, mood disorders, and anger. Danica aims to create a welcoming space where people feel heard and respected.
She focuses on real-life challenges like career shifts, relationship strains, grief, and coping with major changes. She also supports people dealing with addictions, trauma and abuse, sleep or eating concerns, and self-esteem struggles.
Background and approach
Her work includes attention to ADHD, compassion fatigue, and intimacy-related issues. Danica blends evidence-informed approaches to match each person’s needs. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, existential ideas, and mindfulness techniques.
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with practical tools to use between meetings. Her style is warm and interactive. She emphasizes a respectful therapeutic relationship and avoids stigmatizing labels.
Clients who prefer a direct, compassionate approach will find straightforward guidance and steady support. Danica works with people in New Jersey and offers online options. She speaks English and brings decades of clinical experience to each session.
If someone wants help managing anger, mood symptoms, or life transitions, she offers structured support and coaching to move forward.
What Danica works with
Everything Danica lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Danica's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- 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
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Danica lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Using practical therapies online to manage emotions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and for people who want clearer direction when life feels overwhelming. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, anger, and sleep or eating concerns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for regulating strong emotions, tolerating distress, and improving communication, which can be helpful when anger or intense mood swings interfere with daily life.Finding the right approach is a process. The therapist will work together with each person to decide which methods fit best with their goals, preferences, and the problems they want to solve. Sessions include discussion, skills practice, and small steps to try between meetings so progress can be tracked and adjusted as needed.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video is good for in-depth conversations and seeing nonverbal cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can provide brief check-ins or ongoing coaching. These options make therapy more flexible for work breaks, caregiving routines, or people who prefer not to use video.
Questions people ask about Danica
What kinds of concerns can Danica help with?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, anger, addictions, grief, trauma and related issues like sleep and eating problems.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach is warm and interactive with a focus on practical skills and clear goals. Conversations are collaborative and focused on what will help day to day.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Danica has 25 years of experience working as a therapist with a wide range of concerns and mood disorders.
Where is she based and what are her credentials?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a New Jersey LCSW and practices from that state.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does payment work and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist arrangements; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.