About Jesse
Jesse Palermo welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, mood swings, or relationship strain. He is a licensed clinical social worker in New York with 14 years of experience. Jesse aims to make the first step feel manageable and will work alongside each client to set clear, realistic goals.
He listens with respect and without judgment. Sessions focus on practical steps you can try between meetings. Jesse adapts his approach to each person’s needs rather than using one fixed method.
Background and approach
His work often addresses depression, bipolar symptoms, addictions, and grief. He also helps with intimacy and sexual culture concerns, body image, sleep problems, and parenting stress. Jesse supports people facing career changes, compassion fatigue, and attention-related challenges such as ADHD.
Jesse uses several therapeutic styles to guide his work. He draws from client-centered methods to build trust, cognitive-behavioral techniques to shift patterns of thinking and behavior, and dialectical skills for managing intense emotions. He also incorporates existential ideas when people ask about purpose and meaning, and relationship tools from the Gottman method when communication is a central issue.
Sessions may include talking through recent problems, practicing new ways to respond, and setting small, achievable tasks. Jesse meets people where they are and helps them find practical ways to move forward. He works in English and meets with people remotely and by phone from his New York practice.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Jesse commonly uses client-centered therapy to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the client’s perspective guides sessions. This approach is useful when someone needs to feel heard and wants support in deciding the next steps.He also draws on cognitive-behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through clear, practical exercises. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and patterns tied to addiction. Jesse uses dialectical behavior therapy skills when emotional intensity and self-regulation are central concerns, teaching tools for distress tolerance and emotion management.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jesse collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day demands. He checks in regularly and adjusts strategies so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video lets you use visual cues and a fuller conversation, phone may be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can fit short check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to attend sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping therapy consistent and accessible.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English