Sirribi Atanga
Compassionate, practical help for life changes
- Credentials
- LICSW, LCSW
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed in
- New York, Colorado, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Sirribi
Sirribi Atanga is a licensed clinical social worker based in New York. She holds an MA and carries LICSW and LCSW credentials. Sirribi draws on eight years of clinical experience to help people make practical changes when life becomes hard to manage.
Her style is calm and direct. She focuses on helping clients notice what matters to them, identify small next steps, and practice new ways of coping. Sessions aim to be clear and approachable, with language that parents can follow on a phone or between tasks.
Background and approach
In therapy, Sirribi emphasizes cultural humility and a strengths-based outlook. She pays attention to each person’s background and life story and looks for what already works for them. That helps shape goals that feel realistic and meaningful.
She blends evidence-based methods with mindfulness and acceptance practices. In the room she works to create a practical plan for managing stress, anxiety, anger, depression, grief, parenting challenges, and other concerns. Work often includes learning skills, trying small experiments, and checking what helps.
Sirribi also offers help with relationship patterns, self-esteem, intimacy-related issues, sleep problems, career transitions, and trauma-related struggles. Her approach is collaborative - she and the client decide what to try and how to measure progress.
Therapeutic approaches for online family and life challenges
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and refocus on values and small actions. It can be useful for stress, anxiety, and coping with life changes by prioritizing what matters and taking gradual steps toward it.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical skills for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, anger, and other everyday difficulties through structured exercises and homework.
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and following the client’s pace. It supports people who need a respectful space to sort through emotions and make decisions about relationships, parenting, or identity.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they will try methods and adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are used for in-depth sessions, phone sessions for convenience, and live chat or text-based messaging for brief check-ins or ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy around family schedules, work, and other responsibilities.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New York, Colorado, New Jersey, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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