- Years in practice
- 17
- Credentials
- LICSW
- Licensed in
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Ivanilda
Ivanilda Silva is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) practicing from Massachusetts. She brings 17 years of experience and a background in social work and expressive therapies. Her work often centers on parenting concerns alongside stress, anxiety, grief, relationship challenges, and identity issues.
Ivanilda blends practical skills with a creative approach drawn from movement and expressive practices. Ivanilda earned a Master of Social Work and later completed graduate training in expressive therapies with a focus on dance and movement.
Background and approach
She holds a LICSW and has taught and led groups, including parent support sessions and relationship workshops. Earlier roles included work in inpatient adult psychiatry and outpatient counseling settings. In sessions she mixes talk-based approaches with active, experiential methods when helpful.
She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to address unhelpful thinking and from acceptance and commitment therapy to build values-based action. Attachment-based ideas guide her work on connection and relationship patterns. Her style is down-to-earth and collaborative.
She aims to help people name what matters, try small changes, and track what helps. Parents who are tired, stressed, or struggling with boundaries may find practical strategies and emotional support. Ivanilda also incorporates emotionally-focused and client-centered techniques to support healing from trauma, abandonment, or betrayal.
She can work with issues like caregiving stress, blended family challenges, body image, and compassion fatigue. Sessions may include movement or expressive elements when the client is open to them. She offers services in English and accepts international clients.
Sessions are available in multiple online formats to fit different schedules and needs.
What Ivanilda works with
Everything Ivanilda lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Ivanilda helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Ivanilda lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches for online work and parents
Ivanilda uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT is practical and often focuses on skills you can try between sessions, which can be useful for stress, anxiety, and mood concerns.She also draws on attachment-based therapy to examine how early patterns of relating influence current relationships. This approach helps with intimacy concerns, communication problems, and issues tied to abandonment or trust. In addition she uses acceptance and commitment therapy, which emphasizes values-driven choices and learning to live with difficult feelings while taking meaningful action.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. She will work with each client to match methods to that person’s goals, comfort level, and preferences. Sessions can include discussion, exercises, and occasional expressive movement or experiential techniques if the client wants that.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets you work face-to-face across distance. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter, flexible exchanges during busy days. These options make it easier to fit therapy into parenting schedules, work breaks, or travel.
Questions people ask about Ivanilda
What concerns does Ivanilda commonly address?
She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting concerns, and identity questions such as LGBT matters. Additional focuses include abandonment, attachment issues, caregiver stress, and communication problems.
What is her general therapeutic style?
Her approach is collaborative and down-to-earth. She combines talk therapy with experiential and expressive elements when useful to help clients practice new skills.
How much experience does she have?
She has 17 years of experience, including time working in inpatient adult psychiatry and outpatient counseling, as well as running groups and workshops.
What credentials and location apply to her practice?
She holds an MA and is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) based in Massachusetts.
Which languages and international options are offered?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What formats are available for sessions?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different preferences and schedules.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; services use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.
More therapists for parents in Massachusetts
All in Massachusetts
Kimberley Haley
LMHC
Massachusetts 20 years in practice
Experienced LMHC focused on parenting and life stress
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship
- Depression
Andrea Brant
LMHC
Massachusetts 13 years in practice
Compassionate practical support for stressed parents
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship
- Anger
Jacques-Paul Barbour
LMHC
Massachusetts 23 years in practice English, Arabic
Practical, respectful counseling for relationship and parenting concerns
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship