Acceptance and Commitment (ACT) Therapists in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, NY

My specialty is holding space for those within the LGBTQIA+ communities. My goal is to provide gender-affirming, culturally humble, and trauma-informed care to all my clients. My clients and I work together to explore their depression, anxiety, interpersonal communication, religious trauma, and chronic illnesses like HIV.

I am honored to hear your story and be witness as you heal, grow, and become the most authentic version of yourself. I welcome you into a warm, non-judgemental space, where you can feel safe to explore your emotions in a creative way. I believe that creative expression, along with compassionate guidance, can initiate transformation, where one may experience relief from overwhelming emotions, challenging thoughts, and trauma. While I welcome client with a broad range of struggles and identities, I've expertise in ADHD, body image, eating disorders, trauma, adolescence, and clients who are LGBTQIA+ or are exploring their identity.

Updated Sept 2023 • Openings in-person in Williamsburg, Brooklyn • Openings for Telehealth • Waitlist for our Cold Spring office • Therapy for Adults, Teens, Children 6-11, Parents and Families. Improve relationships, reduce anxiety, learn to regulate emotions, process traumatic events and reconnect to your own sense of competence and worth. We help people live happier, better connected, productive lives by combining the arts with proven psychotherapy treatment. In business for 16 years, we are licensed to practice psychotherapy and creative arts therapies.

Do you ever find yourself brushing off your challenges, thinking they're too small to discuss? Life can feel like a constant juggling act, leaving you breathless and longing for a place to hide. Social invitations come your way, but you hesitate. Loneliness creeps in, and you wonder who you are beyond the weight of your worries. Let's change that narrative. I get it, the struggle of feeling like no one truly understands. Together, let’s reshape your journey. Whether day-to-day stressors, past traumas, struggles with addiction, or the weight of anxiety are holding you back, let’s tackle them head on.

Finding a therapist can be overwhelming and intimidating. I recognize the importance of building a safe and trusting relationship with you to best support you and your needs. My approach is highlighted by my warmth, creativity, and humor, which informs my ability to build rapport and strengthen our therapeutic relationship. I have extensive experience working with children, adolescents, young adults and their families in inpatient, outpatient and school settings. I believe in utilizing a collaborative approach, drawing from your experiences and insights to support growth and healing.

Denise Rivera, LCSW has over nine years of experience helping adolescents, young adults, and adults with diverse backgrounds through individual, family, and group therapy. Denise is fluent in Spanish and English. Denise has worked in community hospitals and specialized programs with adolescents, young adults and adults coping with unusual thoughts or voices, chronic mood disorders, as well as symptoms of anxiety and depression utilizing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy practices.

I work with clients who suffer from range of emotional problems, including difficulties with anger management, depression, anxiety, interpersonal, and family issues. I work with couples, families, children, and adult individuals. I use individual, group, and family therapy as treatment modalities. I view psychotherapy as a process whereby a client is assisted to explore, understand, and constructs his/her past experiences in more realistic and positive ways to help strengthen one's self-esteem. This process is achieved by creating a working environment of trust, acceptance and non judgment that fosters self-acceptance and emotional growth.

You can feel better. I’m here to provide you with the tools. Are you living with depression, anxiety, or worry? Are you struggling with insomnia? Do you wonder why you have been engaging in sabotaging behaviors? Are you struggling with lost opportunities? Do you feel lost in figuring out what comes next for you? We all deserve a sense of peace in our lives. It’s my goal to help you feel better and more centered. For over 20 years, I’ve worked with people on recovery oriented, evidence-based approaches, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

Psychotherapy is fundamentally about discovering a deeper sense of personal meaning, greater self-understanding, and self-acceptance. It offers the possibility of coming into contact with a more enlivened state of being. Psychotherapy can help us move through life with a greater degree of freedom and flexibility, feeling more connected to ourselves and others along the way. My work is shaped by psychodynamic, existential, and holistic approaches. My complimentary background as a yoga therapist includes considerable training and expertise in embodiment and mindfulness practices, which I draw upon in my clinical work.