About Jesse
Jesse Palermo is a licensed clinical social worker with 14 years of experience. He focuses on making therapy practical and understandable for people dealing with stress and anxiety. He treats each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
Jesse aims to create a clear plan that fits a client's life and goals. He helps people who are coping with addictions, relationship challenges, bipolar disorder, and depression. He also supports concerns around grief, trauma and abuse, eating and sleeping problems, and self-esteem.
Background and approach
Jesse works with issues related to intimacy, career stress, parenting strain, and ADHD. His additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment concerns, body image, and caregiving stress. Jesse uses approaches that include Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).
He adapts conversations and tools to what each person needs. Sessions aim to teach practical skills and to make space for honest reflection. Jesse practices in New York and holds the credential LCSW, which means Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
He speaks English. He does not accept international clients. Sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Starting is straightforward: select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a time based on availability. Jesse will work collaboratively to set goals and adjust the plan as needs change.
Therapeutic Approaches for Online Care
Jesse draws on Client-Centered Therapy to make sessions collaborative and focused on each person's experience. This approach emphasizes listening, empathy, and shaping the conversation around what matters most to the client. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and to teach concrete skills for anxiety, depression, and stress management. DBT, or Dialectical Behavior Therapy, adds practical emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills when strong emotions or relationship conflicts are present.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jesse will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences and then blend methods that fit. The plan can change over time so it stays useful and relevant to what the client wants to achieve.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skill teaching and deeper dialogue. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when hands-free time is needed. Live chat or text-based messaging can support brief check-ins, homework prompts, or ongoing connection between sessions. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while working with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- 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
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