About Jenna
Jenna Van Houten is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) in Ohio with six years of clinical experience. She helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, relationship struggles, and challenges that come with life changes. Jenna aims to create a down-to-earth space where clients feel heard and understood.
She uses clear, conversational sessions that mix practical skills and personal reflection. Jenna draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and on acceptance and commitment tools to clarify values and take steps that matter.
Background and approach
She also uses dialectical skills to teach emotion regulation and foster steadier reactions. Jenna often focuses on identity, intimacy, and communication in relationships. She supports people facing grief, addiction-related impacts, family of origin concerns, and career uncertainty.
Her practice also addresses mood disorders, ADHD, and issues around sexuality and women's experiences. Her style is collaborative and occasionally light-hearted, with an emphasis on learning and self-awareness. Jenna leans into education, helping clients understand what they notice about themselves and how to make small, meaningful changes.
She invites honesty and curiosity as first steps toward lasting progress. Before independent practice, much of her work was with youth, young adults, and people affected by substance use and repeated trauma. Jenna aims to walk alongside clients as they rebuild a sense of self, offering guidance and practical tools while honoring each person’s knowledge of their own life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people name what matters and take committed steps toward those values. Online ACT sessions often include exercises to notice thoughts and choose actions that fit the life someone wants. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; in virtual sessions this looks like tracking patterns, trying behavioral experiments, and practicing new skills between meetings.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they review what helps and adjust strategies as sessions progress so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and skill coaching. Phone sessions can fit a short break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are helpful for frequent check-ins, quick tools, and ongoing skill practice between talks. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life while keeping the focus on meaningful, skill-based progress.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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