Brittanie Pena
Calm, practical, and compassionate therapy
LCSW New Jersey
- Experience
- 16 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English, Spanish
About Brittanie
Brittanie Pena is a licensed clinical social worker with 16 years of experience who centers care in evidence-informed, collaborative methods. She integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with client-centered and emotion-focused techniques to help people identify unhelpful thought patterns, strengthen emotional awareness, and develop practical coping skills.
Background and approach
Her work often focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, trauma and abuse, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Pena offers a compassionate, individualized style that emphasizes communication skills, self-compassion, and concrete strategies for navigating life changes and career pressures.
She also addresses family dynamics, parenting challenges, and a range of additional concerns such as abandonment, attachment wounds, body image and codependency. Her practice includes attention to complex situations like domestic violence, immigration-related stress, and blended family issues.
Working in both English and Spanish, Pena draws on motivational interviewing, DBT, and mindfulness tools to tailor interventions to each client’s needs. She brings practical problem-solving alongside empathic listening to support clients in building resilience, improving relationships, and moving toward greater emotional balance in daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and online access
CBT helps clients recognize and change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors; it is often used to reduce anxiety, manage stress, and develop problem-solving strategies that carry into daily life. Client-centered therapy emphasizes empathy, active listening, and the therapist's nonjudgmental presence to support self-exploration and personal growth, useful for building self-esteem and improving communication. Dialectical Behavior Therapy combines acceptance and change strategies with concrete skills training in areas like emotion regulation and distress tolerance, which can be especially helpful for people facing intense emotions or relationship challenges.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, explain different methods, and tailor a treatment plan that reflects the client's preferences and needs rather than insisting on a single modality from the start.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, allowing clients to fit sessions into busy schedules and to maintain continuity during life transitions. These options make it easier to access consistent care from a licensed professional while using approaches like CBT, client-centered work, or DBT in a way that fits everyday routines.
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Experience
16+ years
Licensed
New Jersey
Languages
English, Spanish