About Jennafer
Jennafer Matthews is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 11 years of experience. She practices in Wisconsin and focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and life transitions. Jennafer aims to make therapy straightforward and approachable for people who feel overwhelmed or stuck.
She describes her work as person-centered. That means she treats the person in front of her as the expert on their life and works alongside them.
Background and approach
Sessions often start with listening to what matters most and finding practical steps the client can try between meetings. Jennafer uses a mix of methods that fit each person’s needs. She draws from cognitive behavioral techniques to spot patterns of thinking, mindfulness to build calm and focus, and solution-focused ideas to set small, achievable goals.
Motivational interviewing may appear when someone needs help finding their own reasons to change. Her style is warm and direct. She balances empathy with clear, usable tools.
Humor can also be part of sessions when it helps ease tension and make progress feel possible. People come to Jennafer for many concerns including relationship problems, parenting stress, grief, ADHD, body image, and career-related issues. She also supports those dealing with attachment wounds, abandonment, chronic illness, or compassion fatigue.
Her aim is to work at each person’s pace and help them build skills that fit their daily life.
How Jennafer uses therapy methods online
Jennafer uses client-centered work to make sure sessions focus on each person's priorities. This approach means she listens closely and follows the client's lead to set goals and topics for discussion. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to identify unhelpful thinking and to practice small behavior changes that ease symptoms like anxiety and low mood.She treats approach selection as a team effort. Early sessions are used to figure out which methods fit a person's goals and daily life. The therapist and client decide together whether to focus on skill-building, problem solving, mindfulness practice, or a mix of techniques.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy week. Video gives a face-to-face feel for deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins, ongoing encouragement, and flexible communication between longer sessions. These options help people access consistent care without major schedule changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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