Dr. Jenenne Valentino-Bottaro, LMHC, LCMHC
Compassionate somatic and trauma-informed care
About Jenenne
Dr. Jenenne Valentino-Bottaro welcomes people who feel overwhelmed by trauma, anxiety, grief, or patterns that keep repeating. She speaks plainly and aims to make therapy feel doable.
Her style is warm and interactive, and she focuses on helping people find more resilience and self-leadership in everyday life. She has worked as a mental health clinician for 12 years and is licensed in Florida as an LMHC and LCMHC. Over that time she has supported people navigating complex trauma, eating problems, addictions, and co-occurring concerns.
Background and approach
She also helps with stress, depression, bipolar challenges, ADHD, and relationship or intimacy-related difficulties. Sessions blend mind and body approaches. Somatic methods are used alongside cognitive and acceptance-based tools to help people notice how emotions show up physically.
Attachment-focused work looks at early patterns and how they affect current relationships. Therapy is tailored to each person. Conversations and exercises are chosen to build coping skills, reduce reactivity, and encourage healthier choices.
Practical steps are paired with reflective work to strengthen a sense of inner leadership and resilience. Dr. Valentino-Bottaro uses a range of methods so treatment fits the person, not the other way around.
She aims to help people heal from old hurts, improve daily functioning, and reconnect with their values and goals.
How somatic and acceptance approaches work online
Somatic-informed work helps people notice bodily reactions tied to emotions and stress, and uses simple grounding and movement-based awareness to shift those patterns. It can be useful for trauma, anxiety, and chronic stress by connecting physical sensations to feelings and choices.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and learning small, practical steps to move toward them. It teaches people to accept uncomfortable thoughts while taking action that aligns with what matters to them. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relational patterns and how they shape current relationships, helping people notice and change repeating dynamics.
Finding the right fit is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose approaches based on needs, goals, and comfort. Sessions may combine somatic awareness, ACT exercises, and attachment-focused conversations as a tailored plan.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to use skills in real time between sessions. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises so they work in a virtual format and help people practice changes in their everyday environment.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Eating disorders
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Utah
- Languages
- English