Geraldine Nisi, LCSW

Geraldine Nisi is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. She supports concerns around relationships, self-esteem, parenting, caregiving strain, chronic illness, and intimacy-related issues. People also come to her for anger, career questions, loneliness, and midlife transitions.

Gerri takes an interactive, supportive approach. She listens first and helps set clear goals. Sessions focus on practical steps and skills clients can use between meetings. She draws on methods that fit each person's needs rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.

Her work blends cognitive and behavioral tools with emotion regulation strategies. That often means identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing new ways to cope. Motivation and solution-focused techniques are used to build momentum when people feel stuck.

Geraldine has practiced for 25 years in schools, hospitals, and community mental health clinics. Her background brings experience with caregiving stress, chronic health challenges, cancer-related concerns, and aging issues alongside everyday problems like work stress and family conflict.

She speaks English and Italian and practices in New York as an LCSW. Clients can expect clear, plain explanations and a focus on what they want to change. Gerri emphasizes collaboration, so people leave sessions with small, doable steps toward their goals.

Approaches adaptable to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and shaping sessions around what matters most to the client. It helps people feel heard and develop their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns that contribute to anxiety or depression. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) adds emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills for managing intense feelings and maintaining relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Geraldine will discuss goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust as needed. The process is collaborative so clients can weigh what helps and what doesn’t.

Confirm current session options before booking so you know which formats are offered. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, shorten travel time, and allow for flexible scheduling. It can also let people use video or audio depending on comfort level, reduce the need for long commute times, and make follow-up check-ins simpler to arrange.