About Jenna
Jenna Elwell is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Michigan. She brings three years of clinical experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, relationship struggles, trauma and grief. Jenna emphasizes practical steps people can use right away.
She starts by listening to each person's story and identifying strengths they already have. Jenna frames clients as experts on their own lives and helps them build on what works. Sessions focus on realistic goals and small, manageable changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
Her experience includes work with substance use and behavioral addictions alongside mood and anxiety concerns. Jenna also supports people dealing with trauma, abuse, grief, and relationship pain. She pays attention to how attachment, family of origin, and codependency patterns can keep problems cycling.
In session she helps people recognize unhelpful patterns and practice new coping skills. Conversations are straightforward and goal-oriented, with time for emotion and reflection. Jenna balances practical strategies with empathy and steady support.
Jenna offers care in English and provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions are scheduled through an online matching process and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. She works with people across a range of life challenges and aims to make therapy useful and manageable.
Therapeutic approaches and flexible online care
Jenna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on teaching practical skills and changing unhelpful patterns. One common approach she uses centers on skill-building for anxiety and stress management - this involves brief exercises, breathing and grounding strategies, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations so people can reduce avoidance and regain control. Another approach targets addictive behaviors and coping strategies by identifying triggers, creating alternative routines, and building relapse prevention plans to support lasting change.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Jenna collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals, preferences, and day-to-day realities. She adjusts pace and techniques based on what helps most, combining skills training with space to process feelings when needed.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversations when that matters. Phone sessions can be easier when video is not possible or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging provide shorter check-ins and flexible ways to stay connected between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, family, or recovery routines while keeping care consistent and reachable.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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