Justine Alemany , LCSW

Justine Alemany is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) based in Florida who brings six years of clinical experience to her work with children, adolescents, and adults. She began her therapeutic career as a graduate intern at an elementary school in Boston, then completed a second-year internship in Worcester through UMASS Medical School at an inpatient program for adolescents with severe and pervasive mental illnesses. There she worked with young people who often required extended stays and had histories of trauma, abuse, schizophrenia, depression, and anxiety, while also supporting their families through counseling and psychoeducation.

After returning to Florida, she spent two years in outpatient and residential substance use treatment for adult women, addressing substance use, co-occurring trauma, and mood disorders including bipolar disorder. In 2019 she moved into a role at a Children’s Advocacy Center, where she provides trauma-focused care to clients affected by sexual abuse, domestic violence, grief and loss, significant life changes, and questions around sexuality. Her primary focus is trauma and helping people cope with major life transitions.

She practices with an eclectic, client-centered orientation, emphasizing that no single therapy fits everyone. She frequently uses trauma-focused methods such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to build coping skills and emotion regulation techniques that clients can apply in daily life. Justine offers services in both English and Spanish.

Trauma-Focused Approaches and Online Care

Justine frequently integrates EMDR and Dialectical Behavior Therapy into her trauma work. EMDR helps people process distressing memories by guiding attention while they recall events, aiming to reduce the intensity of traumatic reactions and make difficult memories more manageable. DBT focuses on teaching skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness, which can be especially useful for people experiencing intense mood swings, impulsivity, or relationship struggles.

She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to help clients identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that contribute to anxiety, depression, or substance use patterns. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process - the therapist and client work together to determine which methods best fit the client’s needs, goals, and preferences, and that plan can evolve as therapy progresses.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility for clients who need different ways to connect. Video sessions provide face-to-face interaction, phone sessions offer an audio option, and live chat or text messaging can support more frequent check-ins or access when schedules are tight. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care and adapt therapy to daily life while working with licensed professionals.