About Jennie
Jennie Harvat is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, trauma, and mood challenges. She offers straightforward support aimed at noticeable coping skills and clearer day-to-day functioning. Jennie writes and talks plainly so parents and busy adults can understand next steps quickly.
Her approach centers on evidence-based therapeutic techniques paired with a trauma-informed perspective. She emphasizes emotional regulation and practical tools that people can use between sessions.
Background and approach
Sessions may include mindful breathing, grounding skills, and step-by-step planning for moments of panic or overwhelm. Jennie also incorporates gentle mind-body ideas when they fit a person's needs. That can include sound-based relaxation practices and individualized suggestions for supportive herbal options.
These are shared as possibilities and discussed collaboratively rather than presented as required steps. Over her decade of practice Jennie has worked with people facing depression, bipolar mood challenges, ADHD, and post-traumatic stress. She focuses on helping clients break long-standing patterns, improve communication, and rebuild a stronger sense of self-worth.
Her style balances direct guidance with compassion. Sessions are offered in English and provided to people located in Missouri through a variety of online formats. Jennie helps people set concrete goals, practice new skills, and track small gains that add up over time.
Evidence-based techniques and online care
Jennie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on emotional regulation and trauma recovery. One approach emphasizes teaching concrete emotion regulation skills to reduce panic and overwhelming anxiety; clients learn breathing, grounding, and step-by-step coping plans. Another approach centers on trauma-informed work that helps people process difficult experiences at a pace they can tolerate while building resilience and clearer boundaries.Finding the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. Jennie works with each person to match techniques to their needs, goals, and comfort level. She will try different tools and adjust the plan based on what helps most in everyday life.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone sessions can work with lower bandwidth or when being on camera is difficult, live chat supports short check-ins, and messaging lets clients share progress or questions between visits. These options make it easier to fit care into busy schedules and accommodate changing needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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