About Jenna
Jenna Shersky is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and self-esteem concerns. She brings a practical and compassionate approach to sessions so people can feel heard and learn concrete tools for everyday life. She uses straightforward conversation to identify what’s getting in the way.
She helps clients break problems into small, manageable steps. Sessions focus on coping skills, behavior changes, and clearer communication rather than long lectures or medical jargon.
Background and approach
Jenna draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thinking and DBT strategies to improve emotion regulation and distress tolerance. She also uses client-centered methods to follow each person’s priorities and motivational interviewing to support change when people feel stuck. Her practice includes attention to chronic pain, illness, and disability, as well as issues tied to isolation, emptiness, and traumatic brain injury.
She also addresses relationship difficulties, family problems, forgiveness, and women’s issues when they affect mood and daily functioning. Jenna has ten years of experience and holds an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She works with people in New York and conducts sessions in English.
Her style is collaborative and practical, aiming to help clients build resilience and clearer choices for their lives.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person’s priorities. The therapist follows the client’s lead, asks questions to clarify what matters most, and helps people set goals that feel meaningful. This approach is useful when someone wants a supportive space to sort through feelings and choices.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. Sessions include identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. CBT can help with anxiety, stress, and low mood by teaching practical tools to change day-to-day patterns.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan over time. This collaborative work helps match techniques to what actually helps the person make progress.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more accessible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging works for ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit care into busy schedules and different life circumstances.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Isolation / loneliness
- Self-love
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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