Judeann Colasante-Spaide
Calm, practical help for everyday family stress
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- New Jersey, New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Judeann
Judeann Colasante-Spaide is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, mood challenges, and life transitions. She offers practical support for worries like depression, bipolar symptoms, grief, anger, addictions, ADHD, and family concerns. Her tone is straightforward and calm, aimed at parents and caregivers seeking clear help.
She creates a space where clients can speak openly without judgment. Sessions focus on identifying thoughts that influence feelings and actions.
Background and approach
Judeann uses plain language to make tools easy to use at home. Her work draws on about 20 years of experience in social work practice. Judeann holds a New York LCSW (073006-01) and a New Jersey LCSW (44SC06102000).
She combines clinical knowledge with everyday strategies that fit family life. Judeann often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help clients notice unhelpful thinking and try different responses. That method targets patterns that keep problems going and teaches small, doable changes.
She supports people taking the first step toward feeling better and handling change. Sessions are practical, focused, and paced to the individual. Judeann aims to help clients build skills they can use after therapy ends.
How Judeann’s Approach Adapts to Online Therapy
Judeann commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and behaving. CBT is practical and skill-based, and it can help with anxiety, depression, mood swings, and patterns that affect daily family life.She emphasizes clear, actionable techniques in sessions so people can practice them between meetings. The work is collaborative - the therapist and client decide together which strategies to try and adjust them as needed. Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process and will be shaped by the client’s goals and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options let people fit sessions around busy family schedules and access help from home. Video and phone allow real-time conversation, while chat and text support brief check-ins and ongoing skill practice. The mix of formats tends to increase flexibility and helps therapy continue when life gets hectic.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, New York
- Languages
- English
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