Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
How Josephine works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- New York, Connecticut
- Years in practice
- 13
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Josephine
Josephine Ovalles is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing strong emotions and life changes. She works with stress, anxiety, depression, mood shifts, substance concerns, grief, and anger. She speaks English and Spanish and practices from New York.
Her style is direct and practical, aimed at making daily life easier to manage. Josephine draws on several well-known therapy methods to meet each person's needs. She often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and change unhelpful thinking.
Background and approach
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people focus on values when feelings are intense. Her training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy supports work on emotion regulation and coping skills. She emphasizes clear communication and collaboration in sessions.
People can expect straightforward talk about problems, small experiments to try between sessions, and step-by-step plans to handle conflicts or cravings. Josephine adapts her approach to fit what a person needs right now rather than following a single method. Her background includes long experience in clinical settings, offering individual and group work and crisis intervention.
She brings 13 years as an LCSW to her practice and uses that experience to guide practical problem solving. This includes addressing relationship patterns, intimacy concerns, and parenting stress. Sessions cover common life problems like work strain, relationship conflict, sleep trouble, and low self-esteem.
Josephine aims to help people build skills they can use after therapy ends, focusing on clear goals and steady progress.
What Josephine works with
Everything Josephine lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Josephine's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Approaches Josephine lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- 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.
How therapy methods translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on identifying personal values and taking small steps toward those values even when emotions are strong. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches clear skills to change unhelpful patterns and improve mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and communication skills to reduce reactive behavior and improve relationships.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with a person about goals, what has and hasn’t helped before, and daily life demands. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online work is offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit a busy life. Video is good for face-to-face exchanges and teaching skills. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging are useful for short updates, quick coping reminders, and flexible check-ins between longer sessions. These options help people keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and other commitments.
Questions people ask about Josephine
What problems does Josephine help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, grief, substance concerns, anger, relationship strain, sleep problems, parenting stress, and many life transitions.
What is her therapy style like?
Her approach is practical and collaborative. She uses clear communication, skill-building, and short experiments to change patterns that cause distress.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 13 years of experience as a licensed clinical social worker working in clinical and hospital settings with individual and group work.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is an LCSW licensed in New York and Connecticut and practices from New York.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
Can I meet by video or phone?
Yes. Session formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I start working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.