Perri Cohen, LCSW

Perri Cohen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 15 years of clinical experience. She creates a calm, respectful space where adults can talk about stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. People often come for help when they feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure what to do next.

Perri focuses on practical steps alongside understanding deeper patterns. She listens closely and helps clients identify small, doable changes that fit daily life. Sessions explore ways to cope with caregiving strain, chronic illness, adoption and foster care concerns, and the emotional shifts that come with aging.

Her approach is warm and nonjudgmental. Perri draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide the work, choosing methods that fit each person’s goals. She also uses psychodynamic ideas to look at long-standing patterns that affect current feeling and behavior.

Clients can expect help building coping skills, reducing worry, and managing low mood. She pays attention to communication problems, family stress, guilt and shame, and social anxiety as part of everyday life challenges. Midlife crisis and women's issues are also areas mentioned in her practice focus.

Perri practices in New Jersey and conducts sessions in English. She aims to make therapy a collaborative process where the person’s values and priorities guide decisions. The first meetings are used to clarify goals and plan the next steps together.

How therapeutic approaches guide online work

Perri draws on several evidence-based techniques to shape the work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing out new behaviors to reduce anxiety and low mood. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes clarifying values and learning to act toward them even when difficult feelings are present.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Perri works collaboratively to decide which methods fit a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. Early sessions are used to try approaches and adapt as progress is made.

If you are planning online sessions, please confirm current session options before booking since the biography does not list specific formats. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day by reducing travel time and allowing quicker check-ins. It can also make sessions more flexible when someone needs shorter meetings, prefers not to be on camera, or has limited bandwidth. Licensed professionals can use different online arrangements to support steady progress while keeping therapy focused on real-life changes and goals.