Roxane Pakit, LCSW

Roxane Pakit is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with four decades of practice. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, or big life changes. She keeps sessions straightforward and focused on practical steps people can use right away.

Roxane blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with client-centered listening and elements from dialectical behavior work and emotion-focused approaches. She uses talk, skill-building, and problem-solving to help people manage intense feelings, handle relationship conflict, and make clearer choices. Sessions aim to break problems into smaller parts and build skills that reduce distress.

Her experience includes work across many communities and life circumstances. That background informs a flexible, down-to-earth style that values each person’s story and goals. She draws on psychodynamic ideas when helpful to look at patterns that repeat over time.

Typical topics Roxane addresses include parenting stress, communication problems, addiction concerns, attachment and abandonment issues, and coping with career or relationship shifts. She also works with concerns related to LGBT identity, blended families, and recovery from trauma or abuse.

People who meet with Roxane can expect a collaborative planning of goals and steps to reach them. She emphasizes straightforward tools, pacing that matches each person, and a focus on building skills for day-to-day life.

How Roxane’s Approaches Work Online

Roxane commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and client-centered methods in online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. Client-centered work emphasizes listening, understanding each person’s priorities, and shaping sessions around what mattered most to the client.

She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when emotions feel intense. DBT teaches concrete skills for managing strong feelings, tolerating distress, and improving communication in high-stress moments. These approaches can be combined to match the issues a person brings and the goals they set together.

Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Roxane works collaboratively to decide which methods fit a person’s needs and preferences. That means discussing goals, trying techniques, and adjusting the plan as progress is made.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats help people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep momentum between meetings.