About Jenise
Jenise Aydell-Hontiveros is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 17 years of experience helping adults manage anxiety and everyday stress. She focuses on practical ways to reduce worry, handle mood shifts, and cope with life changes. Her approach aims to make therapy feel approachable and useful for daily life.
She offers straightforward, client-centered care that starts with listening. Sessions focus on what matters most to the individual, whether that is depression, panic attacks, relationship strain, or grief.
Background and approach
The goal is to identify small, usable steps that bring relief between appointments. Jenise draws on cognitive behavioral methods to spot unhelpful thinking and to try new behaviors. She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy to build emotional regulation skills and mindfulness to teach calm breathing and present-moment awareness.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing can be part of work with trauma when appropriate. Her style is sincere and nonjudgmental. People can expect a calm presence and clear guidance during sessions.
She helps clients set realistic goals and practices skills together so progress is measurable. Based in Louisiana, Jenise blends practical tools with empathy. She supports people coping with parenting stress, family problems, career pressure, chronic illness, and intimacy-related concerns.
The focus is on useful changes that fit each person's life.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on the client's goals and lived experience; the therapist listens closely and helps people name what matters most and set realistic steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with practical actions to reduce anxiety and depressive patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss symptoms, goals, and preferences together and tailor a plan that fits the person's needs. That may mean mixing CBT skill work with mindfulness practice or adding DBT strategies for emotion control; decisions are revisited as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make it easier to fit therapy into daily life. Video calls allow face-to-face connection and visual cues. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging support people who prefer writing or need flexible, between-session contact. These options help maintain continuity of care and make it possible to use therapeutic techniques from wherever scheduling and circumstances allow.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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