Antonio Wong-Rivadeneyra
Experienced bilingual LCSW focused on families
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 51 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Format
- Online sessions
About Antonio
Antonio Wong-Rivadeneyra is a licensed clinical social worker in California. He speaks English and Spanish and brings decades of experience to family and parenting concerns. He greets each new step toward therapy with respect and encourages people for taking that first step.
He focuses on practical help for everyday problems. He talks through family conflicts, parenting issues, low self-esteem, motivation, and coping with life changes. He also offers support for stress, anxiety, grief, trauma and abuse, anger, sleep problems, and work-related concerns.
Background and approach
Antonio believes clients are the experts on their own lives. He helps people notice unused strengths and build skills to handle disappointments and setbacks. Sessions often include looking at patterns that keep someone stuck and trying new ways to move forward.
His goal is to help people regain a sense of control over their experiences. He works with clients to identify small, usable tools they can practice between sessions. Over time those tools are meant to help people rely more on their own resources.
Antonio describes therapy as a partnership. He pays attention to what motivates each person and guides them toward choices that fit their life. His work continues until clients feel they can manage what works best for them.
Evidence-based approaches and online care that fit busy lives
Antonio uses established, evidence-based techniques that focus on concrete change. One approach involves helping people identify unhelpful patterns and replace them with new behaviors that reduce stress and improve relationships. This helps with family and parenting struggles and problems with motivation or low self-esteem. Another method emphasizes building on a persons existing strengths by teaching simple skills to manage emotions, anger, sleep, and reactions to life changes. That approach supports recovery from grief, trauma, and work-related burnout.Finding the best method is a collaborative effort. The therapist will work with each person to choose which techniques match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they try options, track what helps, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexible ways to connect. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and to keep working on skills between meetings. Licensed professionals can guide growth and problem solving using the format that works best for each person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 51 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
Next step
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point