Shana Maltzman

Shana Maltzman is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience helping people through hard life moments. She works with individuals facing anxiety, depression, grief, worries about self-worth, and changes in relationships or career. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at helping clients feel steadier and more able to cope.

She builds a space where people can talk about loss, anticipatory grief, caregiver stress, and other painful experiences. Conversations also address eating and sleeping problems, body image, attachment worries, and the strain that serious illness or aging can bring. Hospice and end-of-life counseling is included among the areas she focuses on, brought into sessions in a practical, grounded way.

Shana uses a mix of therapies to match what each person needs. She draws on client-centered conversation to follow the client's pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify patterns that keep problems going. Narrative and psychodynamic ideas are used to look at how past stories shape current feelings.

Sessions tend to be collaborative, with clear goals and simple tools to use between meetings. She helps people strengthen coping skills, improve communication, and set manageable steps toward change. The work is steady and paced to each person's situation.

Shana holds New York LCSW-R and New Jersey LCSW credentials. Her practice is based in New Jersey, and she speaks English in sessions. To begin, clients use the site's Start Therapy flow to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions.

How therapeutic approaches fit with online sessions

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on following the client's lead, listening carefully, and building trust so people feel heard. This approach helps when someone needs a steady, accepting space to talk through grief, anxiety, or relationship strain.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the thoughts and behaviors that keep distress going and offers concrete exercises to change them. It tends to help with anxiety, depression, sleep and eating issues, and stress management.

Motivational Interviewing supports movement toward change by exploring a person's goals and ambivalence in a gentle, structured way. It can be useful when someone wants help finding motivation for steps like coping with illness or adjusting to life changes.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide what to try first, and will adjust methods as needs and goals become clearer. That partnership helps keep therapy practical and relevant.

Session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and make it simpler to continue care while managing work, caregiving, or medical appointments.