About Jennifer
Jennifer Visconti is a licensed mental health counselor in New York who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and substance use concerns. She brings seven years of clinical experience and a practical, respectful manner to sessions. Her style is warm and interactive and she aims to meet people where they are.
Jennifer often adapts tools to fit each person's situation rather than using one fixed method. Sessions focus on building strengths, practicing skills, and making steps that feel manageable.
Background and approach
She avoids stigmatizing labels and emphasizes the person's own knowledge of their life. Her background includes working in challenging settings with people experiencing severe mental illness, anger, and substance problems. That experience informs how she handles crises and complex needs inside regular therapy sessions.
She uses that experience to stay direct and grounded while remaining compassionate. In practical terms Jennifer blends techniques from cognitive behavioral approaches, mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, client-centered work, and motivational interviewing. Treatment plans are shaped around the concerns brought to the room, such as relationship strain, coping with life changes, grief, or attention and impulse challenges.
Clients can expect short-term skill work alongside deeper conversation when needed. Jennifer helps people identify values, set realistic goals, and build small routines that reduce overwhelm. She encourages gradual change and supports people as they test new ways of coping.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values while learning to notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck. In an online setting this can mean brief exercises, values worksheets, and short behavioral experiments people try between sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on practical skill-building to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, such as pacing activities, testing assumptions, and practicing new coping strategies during the week. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening, reflection, and supporting a person's own problem solving so the therapist follows the client's lead and mirrors what matters most to them.Choosing the right mix of these approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to figure out which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean using more skills-focused CBT for immediate symptom relief, or more values-based ACT and client-centered conversation when exploring deeper life changes.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and work through exercises together, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins, and live chat or text-based messaging support brief reflections, homework check-ins, or ongoing check-ins between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and continue progress from different locations.
Questions people ask
What concerns does she address?
How would you describe her therapy style?
What kind of clinical background does she have?
Where is she licensed and based?
Which languages are used in sessions?
What session formats are available?
How is cost handled for sessions?
What are the first steps to begin working together?
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.