About Jeremy
Jeremy Barbagallo is a licensed professional counselor in Connecticut with 25 years of clinical experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. Jeremy aims to make therapy straightforward and practical so clients can use what they learn right away.
He creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about what matters most to them. Sessions often begin with clear goals and small steps toward those goals.
Background and approach
Jeremy listens closely and offers feedback that fits each person’s situation. His work addresses a wide range of issues, including self-esteem, life changes, and communication problems. He also supports people dealing with attachment issues, avoidant personality patterns, and blended family challenges.
Jeremy has experience with concerns around body image, substance use, eating issues, and caregiver stress. Jeremy uses practical methods drawn from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and mindfulness work. He helps people spot unhelpful thinking, try different behaviors, and use present-moment awareness to reduce reactivity.
Sessions are collaborative and focused on real-world changes. People who choose him often want straightforward guidance and tools they can apply between sessions. He works with each person at their own pace, adjusting the approach as goals change.
Jeremy aims to help clients gain clearer perspective and more effective ways to cope. He provides services in English and practices in Connecticut. The emphasis is on steady progress and usable skills rather than quick fixes.
Using practical approaches in online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and offering empathetic listening. It helps when someone needs a steady, accepting presence to sort through feelings and make decisions.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches clear techniques for changing unhelpful thinking and trying different behaviors to reduce anxiety and lift mood.
Mindfulness therapy trains simple attention and breathing practices to help people notice their moment-to-moment experience. This can reduce reactivity and make it easier to act in line with personal values.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Jeremy will discuss options and collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what works.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and guided skill practice. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter set-up is needed. Live chat and text messaging make shorter check-ins and between-session support easier to fit into a busy day. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and accessible for different schedules and communication styles.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English