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Isabel Restrepo, LCSW

  • Experience13 years
  • LocationNew York
  • Focus areasADHD, LGBT, and Relationship
  • LanguagesEnglish and Spanish
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About Isabel

Isabel Restrepo is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in New York who offers 13 years of clinical experience supporting people through relationship challenges, trauma, and identity-related concerns.

Background and approach

She frames therapy around clients' strengths and life stories, helping them build confidence, improve concentration, and address self-esteem and motivation. Isabel affirms each person's expertise in their own life while guiding practical steps toward greater well-being.

Her work includes attention to LGBT issues, relationship dynamics, and trauma and abuse, and she also supports those managing mood disturbances, panic, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, impulsivity, and the everyday impacts of attention differences such as difficulties with focus and memory. Multicultural concerns, prejudice and discrimination, and non-monogamous relationship structures are additional areas she addresses with sensitivity.

Isabel is fluent in both English and Spanish and draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to tailor care to each person’s needs.

Evidence-Based Techniques and Online Care



Isabel uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage trauma responses and relationship challenges; for example, trauma-informed approaches focus on understanding how past harm shapes current reactions and teach grounding and coping skills to reduce distress. She also draws on interventions that target attention and executive functioning difficulties, offering practical strategies to improve concentration, task planning, and memory support which can be useful for those experiencing ADHD-related struggles.

Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. Isabel works with each client to identify goals, preferences, and what feels most useful in day-to-day life, adapting techniques over time so that therapy matches changing needs and priorities.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility for different schedules and communication styles. These options can make consistent care more accessible by reducing travel time and offering ways to check in between appointments, while still allowing licensed professionals to work closely with clients on skills, insight, and practical problem solving.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Isabel commonly address?
She works with a range of concerns including LGBT issues, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, self-esteem struggles, ADHD-related focus problems, and mood or anxiety symptoms.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Isabel emphasizes a strengths-based, client-centered approach that recognizes each person as the expert in their own story while using evidence-based techniques to guide change.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 13 years of professional experience working with diverse mental health and relationship issues in New York.
Where is she licensed and practicing?
Isabel holds an LCSW and is licensed in New York with license number NY LCSW 099937 and practices from that location.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish, and she is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats does she offer?
Therapy can be conducted via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin working together?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling a session according to therapist availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

LGBTRelationship issuesTrauma and abuseSelf esteemADHD

Additional focus areas

Attachment issuesCommunication problemsImpulsivityMood disordersMulticultural concernsObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksParanoiaPersonality disordersPolyamory / non-monogamous relationshipsPost-traumatic stressPrejudice and discriminationSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-harmSelf-loveSexual assault and abuseSexualitySmoking / vaping cessationSocial anxiety and phobiaWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Experience

13+ years

Licensed

New York

Languages

English, Spanish