Dorrett Chonge, LMFT
Practical support for stress, relationships, and recovery
About Dorrett
Dorrett Chonge is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in New York with ten years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood, relationship challenges, and the aftermath of trauma or abuse.
Background and approach
Her style is straightforward and encouraging, aimed at helping clients find practical ways forward. Dorrett believes people know their stories best and brings attention to each person's strengths.
She talks with clients about what is working and what is in the way. Sessions emphasize small, manageable steps clients can try between meetings.
She has supported people dealing with self-esteem, motivation, and confidence issues, alongside depression. Her background also includes work around autism and Asperger Syndrome, avoidant personality patterns, and problems that arise in blended family situations.
Practical relationship matters such as communication problems, infidelity, commitment concerns, and separation are part of her experience. Dorrett also addresses caregiver stress, codependency, forgiveness, guilt and shame, impulsivity, and domestic violence impacts.
She aims to create a calm, focused space where people can talk through difficult moments and plan realistic change. Her approach is collaborative and paced to each person's needs.
For someone feeling stuck or unsure where to begin, she helps break large problems into clear first steps. Dorrett supports people as they try new coping strategies, notice what helps, and adjust their plan over time.
Evidence-based methods for online care
Many clients benefit from focused, evidence-based techniques that teach concrete skills. One useful approach is skills-based work that breaks problems into manageable behaviors and coping tools; this helps with anxiety, stress, and self-regulation by giving clear practices to try. Another common method is trauma-informed conversation that lets people name and process difficult events at a pace that feels safe, which can reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and their effects.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most in real life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation across locations. Phone sessions can fit a tight schedule or use less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to check in between sessions or use shorter, focused exchanges. These options let people work therapy into busy lives and pick the format that feels most practical for them.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English