Lily Divino, LCSW

Lily Divino is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people in New York manage stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She has over 12 years of experience supporting teens, young adults, and adults who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or burned out. Lily aims to create a warm, respectful space where clients are heard and can move at a comfortable pace.

Her work is practical and collaborative. She uses trauma-informed care alongside evidence-based techniques to address symptoms and everyday struggles. Sessions often focus on concrete skills, clearer thinking, and ways to cope with intense feelings or panic when they arise.

Lily also brings a culturally responsive perspective to the work. She pays attention to how identity, culture, and belonging shape a person’s experience and decisions. That lens informs how she explores life purpose, family of origin concerns, and multicultural issues with clients.

Her background includes years in healthcare and community settings, which shaped how she sees the effects of systems and chronic stress. She has helped people facing compassion fatigue, caregiving strain, chronic illness and pain, and recovery after sexual violence or other trauma.

Therapy with Lily is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. She emphasizes building on strengths while addressing practical obstacles. If you want a thoughtful partner to help make sense of difficult feelings and find next steps, she offers support focused on real-life change.

How evidence-based methods translate to online care

Many of Lily's methods focus on practical, teachable skills. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different ways of thinking and behaving to reduce anxiety and depression. Motivational Interviewing supports finding personal reasons to change and building small, achievable steps toward goals.

She also uses trauma-informed and strengths-based perspectives to make sure the work moves at a pace that feels manageable. That means identifying coping tools, honoring what has helped you before, and addressing how trauma or ongoing stress affects daily life. These approaches suit issues like panic, post-traumatic stress, caregiver strain, and chronic pain because they combine symptom work with real-life problem solving.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Lily will talk with you about goals, preferences, and how you respond to different techniques, then adjust the plan as you go. The aim is to match methods to what feels useful and doable for you.

Session formats are not specified in the therapist biography, so please confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can still make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life - it can reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins during a workday, and make attending regular appointments more convenient. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework to work well in remote sessions, while keeping the focus on practical steps that fit your daily routine.