About Jocelyn
Jocelyn Pettenato is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and ADHD. She also supports those dealing with relationship and intimacy issues, grief, sleep problems, addiction, and life transitions. Jocelyn approaches work with care and attention to each person's needs.
She keeps sessions client-centered and collaborative. That means she listens first, then helps people set goals and plans that fit their lives.
Background and approach
Jocelyn uses practical tools to manage symptoms and build skills for day-to-day challenges. Her background includes a master's degree in clinical social work and a decade of clinical experience. She has developed a broad skillset from ongoing education in multiple therapeutic methods.
This helps her match techniques to a person's situation rather than using one fixed model. In sessions she blends talk therapy with skills practice. People can expect to talk through difficult memories, learn coping strategies for emotions, and try new ways to handle relationships and routines.
Work may include attention to the connections between thoughts, behaviors, and physical reactions. Many people come for help with parenting strain, blended family issues, caregiver stress, or communication problems. Jocelyn also addresses body image, eating concerns, and mood conditions such as bipolar disorder.
Her aim is to help people feel steadier, more connected to their goals, and better able to manage everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that move someone toward the life they want. It helps with anxiety, stress, and feeling stuck by teaching acceptance of difficult thoughts while committing to meaningful behavior changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises to challenge unhelpful thinking and build skills for worry, depression, sleep issues, and attention challenges like ADHD.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they adjust methods over time, mixing approaches when that better fits the problem at hand.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can work well when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging are suited to quick check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when a written record of thoughts helps with reflection. These options make it easier to fit sessions into work, caregiving, and busy schedules while keeping the focus on practical change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York, Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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