About Ivanilda
Ivanilda Silva is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with 17 years of experience. She brings a practical, movement-informed perspective to therapy and blends talk-based work with attention to the body. Ivanilda uses clear, down-to-earth language so people can follow each step in their work together.
She trained in social work and expressive therapies and practices from a mix of approaches. Sessions often combine emotional reflection with simple body-awareness exercises.
Background and approach
The goal is to help people notice how stress shows up in their bodies and find manageable ways to respond. Clients come for many concerns, including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, self-esteem, and grief. She also supports people dealing with parenting strain, career decisions, relationship challenges, and compassion fatigue.
Additional focuses include attachment issues, codependency, body image, and coping with life changes. Ivanilda leans on methods such as Somatic work, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based ideas, Client-Centered listening, and Cognitive Behavioral techniques. In practice this looks like clarifying values, building coping skills, and trying small movement or grounding practices during or between sessions.
She offers sessions in English and works with clients in Massachusetts and internationally. Meetings can happen by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
How somatic and evidence-based approaches work online
Somatic work pays attention to how stress and emotion show up in the body. It may include grounding, breath awareness, or simple movement to help people notice and regulate physical sensations linked to worry or trauma. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and learning small actions that align with those values while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns from early relationships and how they affect current connections, helping people understand and shift those patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful. Together they try methods that suit the client's needs and adjust the plan over time in a collaborative way.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, continue work during life transitions, and keep momentum between meetings. Licensed professionals can guide somatic exercises, values-based practices, and attachment-focused reflection in formats that match how a person prefers to connect.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English