- Bilingual English Spanish
- Practical coping strategies
- Evening appointments available
About Vanessa
Vanessa Albergo is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Florida who offers counseling in English and Spanish. She brings a decade of experience across mental health settings and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, and parenting concerns. Vanessa aims to help clients regain a sense of balance so they can function in daily life.
Her background includes work with children, adolescents, and older adults in public-sector settings, as well as counseling and advocacy for oncology patients. She has experience in inpatient substance use rehabilitation and outpatient work with LGBTQ clients. Those experiences shaped a flexible style that adapts to each person's needs.
Vanessa uses practical, goal-oriented methods such as cognitive behavioral approaches and acceptance-based work. She also draws on client-centered and narrative ideas to help people tell a clearer story about their next steps. Motivational interviewing techniques are used when people want to make changes but feel stuck.
Sessions emphasize empathy, openness, and collaborative problem solving. Vanessa describes herself as kindhearted and direct, and she focuses on managing everyday stressors as well as longer-term concerns like grief, relationship strain, and life transitions. Her goal is to help clients find more calm and functioning they feel comfortable with.
Vanessa offers evening hours to fit working schedules and conducts sessions on Eastern Standard Time. People interested in starting complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
Her background includes work with children, adolescents, and older adults in public-sector settings, as well as counseling and advocacy for oncology patients. She has experience in inpatient substance use rehabilitation and outpatient work with LGBTQ clients. Those experiences shaped a flexible style that adapts to each person's needs.
Vanessa uses practical, goal-oriented methods such as cognitive behavioral approaches and acceptance-based work. She also draws on client-centered and narrative ideas to help people tell a clearer story about their next steps. Motivational interviewing techniques are used when people want to make changes but feel stuck.
Sessions emphasize empathy, openness, and collaborative problem solving. Vanessa describes herself as kindhearted and direct, and she focuses on managing everyday stressors as well as longer-term concerns like grief, relationship strain, and life transitions. Her goal is to help clients find more calm and functioning they feel comfortable with.
Vanessa offers evening hours to fit working schedules and conducts sessions on Eastern Standard Time. People interested in starting complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
This summary is based on the profile information listed on BetterHelp.