About Loretta
Loretta Battistoni is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing addiction, grief, and life changes. She supports those dealing with anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, and trauma. Loretta draws on five years of hospital and clinical experience in New York to guide practical next steps.
She speaks English and offers multiple online session formats to fit busy lives. In sessions she treats symptoms related to chronic illness, caregiver strain, and substance misuse with straightforward conversations and empathic listening.
Background and approach
Loretta emphasizes strengths clients already have and helps them build skills for coping and decision making. She focuses on concrete goals such as managing cravings, processing loss, improving confidence, and returning to work or daily routines after a setback. Her background includes work in hospital settings, where she supported people with complex medical and behavioral health needs.
That experience informs how she balances mental health concerns alongside medical or physical limitations. Loretta uses practical problem solving rather than abstract theory, keeping the work focused and relevant to everyday life. Sessions can include short check-ins, deeper talk therapy, and collaborative planning for next steps outside sessions.
She encourages small, realistic changes and tracks progress in ways that feel manageable. Loretta aims to create a warm, respectful space where people can talk through what matters most to them. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on availability.
Her practice uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Loretta draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach is skill-building focused therapy which teaches concrete coping tools for managing anxiety, cravings, and stress. These brief exercises help people use new skills between sessions and track progress over time.Another approach emphasizes processing loss and trauma through paced, supportive conversation and meaning-making. This method helps people work through grief, rebuild routines, and restore sense of purpose after a major illness or loss.
Finding the right method is part of the work. Loretta collaborates with each person to choose approaches that fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. She adjusts techniques over time based on what helps most and involves clients in planning next steps.
Online therapy with Loretta uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when more connection is helpful. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to touch base during busy days or when a shorter, written check-in is needed. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, and treatment schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English