About Jennifer
Jennifer Battaglino is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience based in New York. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, self-esteem concerns, and career questions. Parents and caregivers often turn to her for help navigating family strain and parenting challenges.
She works with people facing midlife questions, relationship strain, and concerns around separation or divorce. Jennifer uses clear, practical methods in sessions. She listens first to understand what matters most to each person.
Background and approach
From there she tailors a plan that may include short-term goal work, talking through attachment and abandonment concerns, or exploring deeper patterns that keep problems repeating. Her approach draws on client-centered methods that prioritize the person's own goals. She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thinking and build new habits.
When helpful, she brings in solution-focused and psychodynamic perspectives to look at patterns from different angles. Sessions are designed to fit real life. Jennifer can help with panic symptoms, social anxiety, caregiving stress, chronic illness concerns, and the guilt or shame that sometimes follows major life changes.
She aims to make the work manageable and relevant to everyday decisions. People who meet with her can expect direct listening, practical exercises, and ongoing reflection. Jennifer values respect, sensitivity, and a steady, compassionate presence while people make changes at their own pace.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding the person first and shaping sessions around their goals; it helps when someone wants a supportive space to talk and make decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the thinking and behavior patterns that keep problems going and uses practical exercises to change them, which often fits well into short video or phone sessions. Solution-focused therapy concentrates on small, achievable steps and is useful when someone wants targeted changes over a few sessions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods feel most useful based on their concerns, goals, and preferences. That decision can change over time as progress is made or priorities shift.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different days and needs. Video is helpful for in-depth conversation and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter, more frequent touchpoints and can fit into busy schedules without needing to book a full session window.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English