Vanessa Romero is a dedicated Licensed Social Worker. She obtained a Bachelor's and Master of Social Work from Rutgers University. Vanessa has eight years of clinical mental health experience serving the child, adolescent, and adult populations. To ensure she is providing the most effective and up-to-date therapeutic services, Vanessa takes continuing education training annually.  Most of Vanessa’s experience was garnered through working in community behavioral health by facilitating individual therapy, group therapy, as well as family therapy. She is bilingual and enjoys showing cultural awareness and support to Spanish-speaking clients.

Vanessa uses a variety of therapeutic practices to meet the needs of her clients. To meet the needs of children and adolescents, she prefers the use of traditional talk therapy along with play therapy, art therapy, and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) strategies. Vanessa is trauma-trained and uses a combination of traditional talk therapy approaches as well as EMDR strategies to meet the needs of her adult clients. She specializes in treating adults impacted by domestic violence. Vanessa provides everyone with a safe and confidential environment where they can talk about the most difficult experiences affecting their life. Vanessa empowers all of her clients to face whatever challenges come their way and to persevere through no matter the level of difficulty.

Vanessa is currently accepting clients of all ages with availability for 60-minute therapy sessions.  All sessions are facilitated using a HIPAA-compliant virtual platform. Vanessa is available for early morning therapy sessions several days per week. Her hours of availability consist of early morning, evening, and weekend hours.

www.optimalkeytherapy.com

Trainings

• When The Solution Becomes The Problem: Avoidance in Trauma and Eating Disorders
• Behavioral Addictions
• Providing a Safe Relationship for Children: Working with Child Victims of Violence
• Navigating the Legal System: supporting Victims and survivors of Domestic Violence
• Role of Spirituality in Health and Mental Health
• Ethics of Social Work
• EMDR: A rapid Safe and Proven Treatment for Trauma
• Boundary Issues and Dual Relationships in Social Work
• Neurobiology of Trauma and Trauma Response
• Trauma-Informed Response to Sexual Violence