About Jennifer
Jennifer DiGiovanni is a licensed clinical social worker with 19 years of experience helping people navigate anxiety, stress, depression, and life changes. She works in New York and focuses on practical support for day-to-day struggles. Her style is warm and direct, and she aims to make sessions feel straightforward and useful from the first visit.
Clients often come for help with relationship strain, grief, trauma, or challenges linked to chronic illness and caregiving.
Background and approach
Jennifer pays attention to how these problems affect routines, self-worth, and close relationships. She uses clear steps to reduce overwhelming feelings and rebuild confidence. Her work draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which centers on values and taking meaningful steps even with difficult emotions.
These approaches are used to address anxiety, mood disorders, social anxiety, and post-traumatic stress in practical ways. Sessions focus on small, doable changes clients can try between meetings. Jennifer helps people set goals, practice new coping skills, and track what works.
She also supports those dealing with addiction, eating concerns, intimacy issues, anger, and control struggles. People who prefer clear guidance and collaborative problem solving often find her approach helpful. She combines empathy with structured tools so progress feels measurable.
Jennifer aims to help each person find workable strategies for daily life and long-term resilience.
How Jennifer Uses ACT and CBT Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without letting those experiences block what matters most. It focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small, meaningful actions even when emotions are strong, which can be useful for anxiety, avoidance, or life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT often includes exercises to test thoughts, build coping skills, and practice new behaviors between sessions, which can reduce anxious and depressive symptoms.
Deciding on the right approach is collaborative. Jennifer will discuss goals, try techniques together, and adjust methods based on what fits the person's needs and preferences. The process is about finding tools that feel doable and helpful in daily life.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video calls allow face-to-face work on skills and emotional processing. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill prompts, or when shorter, more frequent contact helps maintain progress. These options provide flexibility while keeping the focus on practical steps and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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