Dr. Jenenne Valentino-Bottaro, LMHC, LCMHC

Dr. Jenenne Valentino-Bottaro helps people facing trauma, grief, anxiety, and life changes find steadier ground. She works with concerns such as eating and addiction issues, low self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and stress. Dr. Valentino-Bottaro uses a warm, interactive style that aims to treat people with respect and sensitivity. She is a licensed mental health counselor with 12 years of clinical experience and holds the credentials LMHC and LCMHC. Her background centers on recovery from complex and early childhood trauma, including work with co-occurring problems like eating disorders and process addictions. This experience informs a practical focus on regaining agency and building resilience. Her approach combines several psychotherapy methods to match each person’s needs. Sessions emphasize self-leadership, emotional regulation, and reconnecting with personal values. Practical tools from cognitive and behavioral work are paired with techniques that attend to the body and relationships. Dr. Valentino-Bottaro frames treatment around real-life goals. She tailors conversations and plans so people can heal, transform, and take clearer direction in their lives. Therapy can include skills practice, guided processing of traumatic memories, and attention to patterns that undermine wellbeing. People looking for help with trauma, grief, relationship or intimacy concerns, ADHD, or career and parenting stress will find an approach focused on steady progress. She brings a nonjudgmental attitude and an integrative toolkit to support lasting change.

Therapeutic approaches for online healing and growth

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice what matters most and commit to small, values-driven actions. It supports work with anxiety, stress, and life transitions by clarifying values and building practical habits. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing patterns of behavior through concrete exercises and skills practice; it is useful for depression, anxiety, and many day-to-day concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy attends to early relationship patterns and how they affect current connections, offering a way to address attachment issues, abandonment, and intimacy-related struggles. Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work together with the client to choose which methods fit best based on goals, history, and preferences. That process can include trying a technique and adjusting it over time so sessions feel useful and manageable. Online therapy can make it easier to fit care into a busy life. It can reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins, and let people meet from their everyday routines. Because session formats are not listed in the biography, confirm the available online options before booking. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT, CBT, and attachment work to remote sessions so clients can practice skills, process difficult memories, and track progress without rearranging their whole schedule.