About Jena
Jena Ourso, LCSW, supports people dealing with anxiety, stress, grief, addiction, and trauma. Jena draws on 11 years of clinical experience in Louisiana to help clients who are managing mood differences, ADHD, autism, and relationship or parenting struggles. The tone in sessions is respectful and direct, with an emphasis on practical steps that fit daily life.
Jena uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. Conversations focus on what matters most to the client and on small, doable changes.
Background and approach
Jena pays attention to attachment patterns, coping skills, and values to shape a simple plan for moving forward. Sessions are collaborative. Jena listens first, then helps set goals and offers tools from cognitive behavioral, acceptance and commitment, and dialectical behavior approaches.
The therapist also brings client-centered care that keeps the discussion grounded in the client’s experience. People who have questions about sexuality, kink, or LGBTQ concerns can expect a nonjudgmental space to talk through boundaries, identity, and communication. Jena also supports work around substance use, codependency, and chronic illness by focusing on skills and problem solving.
Starting therapy is treated as a step-by-step process. Jena helps clients break down big problems into manageable tasks and tracks progress over time. The approach is practical, steady, and aimed at helping people regain confidence in handling life’s challenges.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online care
Jena commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients manage worry and unhelpful thinking. ACT focuses on clarifying your values and taking small actions that matter, while CBT helps identify patterns of thought and behavior you can change to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Attachment-Based Therapy is also used to look at how relationships and early patterns affect current reactions. This approach helps people understand connection, build clearer communication, and change repeated interaction habits that cause distress.
Choosing the best approach is collaborative. Jena will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they try methods and adjust the plan based on what works in real life.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets you use visual cues for deeper conversations, phone calls can fit into a short break, and messaging or live chat are helpful for quick check-ins or when typing feels easier. These formats make it easier to keep consistent work on skills and to use tools between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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