Jennifer Battaglino , LCSW

Jennifer Battaglino is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of practice in New York. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, boost self-esteem, and navigate career and parenting challenges. Her work often addresses women's issues and relationship or family tensions.

Jennifer adapts sessions to the person in front of her. She uses clear, practical tools and listens for what matters most to each client. Sessions aim to build skills for handling panic, social anxiety, and everyday worry.

Her approach draws on several ways of working. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Client-Centered Therapy puts the person's goals and experience at the center of each session.

Jennifer also brings psychodynamic ideas into conversations when past patterns affect current life. Solution-Focused methods are used for quick, goal-oriented steps when someone wants immediate changes. Hypnotherapy may be offered as an adjunct when appropriate.

Over a long career she has helped people through divorce and separation, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and midlife transitions. She offers a respectful, nonjudgmental space and works alongside clients to find practical next steps.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Jennifer commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy in her online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to reduce anxiety, panic, and social fears. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's goals and feelings, creating a space where they are heard and their preferences guide the work.

She also uses Solution-Focused techniques to set clear, short-term goals and build momentum when someone wants practical changes quickly. The therapist will discuss these approaches with each person and together they will choose what fits best for the goals at hand. This is a collaborative process where approaches can be adjusted over time based on how someone responds.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs and rhythms. Video is useful for longer sessions and face-to-face conversation, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging helps keep progress visible between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum across weeks.