About Jenifer
Jenifer Pittman is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with nearly two decades of clinical experience. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety, and those facing depression, relationship strain, grief, addiction, eating concerns, or questions about identity and self-worth. Her approach is practical and straightforward, with an emphasis on understanding what matters to each person.
Clients can expect a collaborative, down-to-earth style. Conversations focus on identifying strengths and clear goals.
Background and approach
She uses strategies to help manage strong emotions and reduce unhelpful thinking patterns. Her background includes work in varied settings with people from diverse backgrounds. This experience informs a flexible way of working that adapts to different needs and life stages.
Jenifer combines several well-known approaches rather than relying on a single method. In sessions she often blends cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness and acceptance-based ideas. She also attends to relational patterns that come from early attachment experiences and encourages practical skill-building for daily life.
Jenifer holds LPC and LCPC credentials and practices in Missouri. She aims to help people move toward greater self-worth and clearer choices, whether they seek shorter-term support or ongoing counseling.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small actions toward those values, while learning to live with uncomfortable thoughts and feelings in a different way. It can help with anxiety, stress, and issues tied to meaning and motivation.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change patterns that cause distress. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and unhelpful habits.
Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape current patterns in close connections, helping people understand and shift repeated relational responses. It can be useful for intimacy concerns, codependency, and attachment issues.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has helped in the past, then recommend a blend of methods that fits those needs. This is a collaborative process and can be adjusted over time as progress is made.
Online therapy lets people use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what fits their life. Video works well for face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and chat or messaging can be useful for quick check-ins or steady support between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into a busy routine.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Illinois
- Languages
- English
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