- Years in practice
- 11
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
- Focus
- Grief
About Julissa
Julissa Aquan is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in New York with 11 years of experience helping people through tough life moments. She focuses on practical care for stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, and parenting concerns. Her manner is warm and collaborative and she aims to make each person feel seen and heard.
Julissa centers work on the whole person. She pays attention to how identity and life experience shape emotion and behavior.
Background and approach
In sessions she combines practical skills with space for processing feelings so clients can respond to life with more clarity. Her approach draws from methods that teach new ways of thinking and coping. She uses strategies to manage overwhelming emotion, notice unhelpful thought patterns, and build healthier habits.
She also attends to attachment and connection issues that affect relationships and parenting. Clients can expect a respectful, straightforward style. Julissa helps people set focused goals, practice tools between sessions, and track small changes over time.
She balances skill building with time to understand what matters most to each person. Julissa often supports people facing transitions like family changes, caregiving strain, chronic health issues, or career shifts. She also helps with addictions, eating and sleeping problems, anger, and attention-related concerns.
Her work aims to help people feel more steady and capable in daily life.
What Julissa works with
Everything Julissa lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Julissa helps people with.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Julissa lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches for online parenting and life challenges
Julissa uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy to guide online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, teaches people to notice thoughts without getting stuck and to act on values that matter. It can help with anxiety, stress, and making changes during life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early connection patterns shape current relationships and parenting. It helps people identify interaction patterns and build more supported ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Julissa will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and together decide which methods to try. That collaborative process includes trying techniques, reviewing what helps, and adjusting plans as needed over time.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people meet face to face when schedules allow. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera time is limited. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, skill practice, and ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy parenting life or during work and caregiving commitments.
Questions people ask about Julissa
What concerns does Julissa address?
She helps with anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, stress, addiction, and relationship or intimacy issues among many other concerns.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is warm and collaborative with a focus on practical skills and emotional understanding. Sessions blend coping strategies with time to process feelings.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Julissa has 11 years of experience working with adults on a range of life and mental health challenges.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds an LCSW and practices in New York.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are offered?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What steps are needed to begin therapy?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on therapist availability.
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