Jessica Sorbello
Therapist focused on practical emotional tools
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jessica
Jessica Sorbello is a licensed clinical social worker in New York with 11 years of experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, anger, low self-esteem, and other life challenges. Her approach is straightforward and supportive for someone who may feel unsure about reaching out.
Jessica aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be spoken plainly. She focuses on building practical coping skills and a clearer understanding of emotions.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize small, doable steps rather than big, abstract promises. She draws from several proven methods, including client-centered work, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical skills, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. These methods are used to address issues like mood changes, addiction behaviors, relationship strain, and parenting stress.
Treatment is tailored to the person, not a one-size-fits-all plan. Clients can expect a collaborative rhythm in sessions. Jessica listens first, then helps set specific goals and practices to try between meetings.
The focus is on skills that make daily life more manageable and meaningful. Her background as an LCSW means she holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential and has worked in varied settings over more than a decade. Jessica supports people through transitions and helps them build tools to cope with future challenges.
Therapeutic approaches and how online therapy fits
Jessica uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thinking and replace it with clearer, more useful thoughts and actions. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and managing stress by practicing concrete skills and tracking patterns.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy techniques to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills. DBT-style skills can be useful when emotions feel overwhelming or when relationships keep repeating painful patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to concerns, goals, and preferences, then recommend methods to try. This collaborative process means approaches can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people balancing busy schedules or caregiving duties. Jessica provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and comfort levels. These options make it easier to keep momentum between appointments and practice skills in everyday settings.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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