Licensed clinical social worker recordNew Jersey
Brittanie Pena, LCSW
New Jersey
Licensed Clinical Social Worker - Anxiety and Trauma
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- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in New Jersey
- LCSW, licence 44SC06044900
- NPI
- 1598399982
- Experience
- 16 years
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Location
- New Jersey
These details come from information Brittanie supplied to BetterHelp. A licence can be checked with the social work board of the state that issued it, and an NPI with the national registry.
AAbout
- Anxiety and depression
- Relationship issues)
- Spanish and English
About Brittanie
Brittanie Pena is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in New Jersey with 16 years of experience. She works with people facing anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, ADHD, and parenting stress. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
Brittanie focuses on clear, practical steps. She helps clients recognize patterns that cause stress and tests small changes in everyday life. Communication skills, boundaries, and managing anger are common topics she addresses.
Her work often includes exploring attachment and abandonment concerns. She supports people dealing with blended family issues, immigration-related stress, and the fallout from domestic violence. Brittanie also helps with body image, codependency, and issues around commitment and intimacy.
In sessions she draws on client-centered work alongside cognitive behavioral and mindfulness approaches. That means sessions center the client’s perspective, look at unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, and add simple attention and breathing practices when helpful.
Brittanie uses practical tools to build coping skills for career stress, compassion fatigue, and life transitions. She helps people organize small next steps and track progress between meetings. Her bilingual ability supports Spanish-speaking clients who prefer working in Spanish.
To start, she asks clients to describe immediate concerns, current stressors, and what they want to change. The process emphasizes collaboration and concrete goals rather than abstract theory.
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How Brittanie’s approaches translate to online work
Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s concerns and perspective, helping sessions focus on what matters most in someone’s life. It’s useful for relationship struggles, parenting stress, and deciding next steps for change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thinking and behavior patterns that keep problems going. Online CBT often includes simple exercises and check-ins to test new ways of responding to anxiety, depression, or work stress.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving communication, and handling distress. Those skills can be practiced between meetings and reviewed during sessions to refine what helps most.
Choosing an approach is part of the work. Brittanie will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit goals and preferences. That decision is revisited as progress and needs change.
Confirm session formats before booking since none are specified in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit visits into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. These practical benefits help people maintain continuity with therapy while balancing job, family, and other responsibilities.
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Experience
16+ years
Listed in
New Jersey
Languages
English, Spanish
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Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, ADHD, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, and related concerns such as attachment and immigration issues.
What is her therapeutic style?
She combines client-centered methods with cognitive behavioral and mindfulness techniques, and sometimes DBT and emotionally-focused ideas, to create practical strategies clients can use day to day.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 16 years of experience working with people on a range of emotional and relational concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she licensed?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, listed as LCSW, licensed in New Jersey.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
What session formats are used?
The original profile does not list specific session formats; confirm current session options before booking.
How are costs structured?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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