About Jennifer
Jennifer Scaltrito is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years in mental health practice. She connects with people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxious, trapped by addiction, angry, or stuck at a career crossroads. Her style is straightforward and supportive, aimed at helping people take manageable steps forward.
She prefers to work in a way that centers the person in the room. Conversations focus on what matters most to the individual and on practical actions they can try between sessions.
Background and approach
She draws on approaches that help people change unhelpful thoughts, build motivation for difficult choices, and set clear, short-term goals. Jennifer has spent two decades in New Jersey mental health settings. That experience includes helping people with relationship struggles, communication problems, and issues tied to abandonment or adoption and foster care.
She also supports those facing chronic illness, aging concerns, and challenges linked to autism and personality differences. Her work addresses a broad range of concerns beyond the headline issues. These include co-morbidity, codependency, commitment worries, control and dependent personality patterns, and coping after natural or human-caused disasters.
The focus is on concrete strategies that help daily life feel more manageable. Sessions are offered in English and are delivered through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Jennifer uses these formats to keep therapy flexible and to fit it into busy lives.
How Jennifer Uses Therapy Approaches Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and helping the person lead the conversation. It is about understanding what matters to the individual and shaping sessions around their priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and uses simple exercises to change unhelpful patterns and reduce anxiety or mood problems.Finding the right approach is treated as a team effort. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan if something isn’t working. The process is collaborative and paced to the person’s readiness to change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer practical flexibility. Video lets people read nonverbal cues and follow structured exercises. Phone sessions can fit a short break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, ongoing encouragement, or when someone prefers not to use a camera. These options help make regular sessions easier to schedule and keep progress consistent.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English