About Jennie
Jennie Young is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of experience helping people handle stress and anxiety. She focuses on practical, day-to-day steps that make life feel more manageable. Her style is calm and down-to-earth, and she encourages honest talk about thoughts and feelings.
She often helps with anxiety, panic attacks, phobias, depression, and process or substance addictions. She also supports people dealing with grief, caregiver stress, loneliness, life transitions, and questions about life purpose.
Background and approach
Relationship concerns, communication problems, and the strain of parenting are common topics in sessions. Jennie uses client-centered methods to meet people where they are. That means she listens first and tailors the conversation to each person's needs.
She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of coping. Sessions aim to be straightforward and useful. Clients can expect to talk about specific situations, try simple strategies between meetings, and track what helps.
Jennie emphasizes small changes that build confidence over time. She is licensed in Alabama and works in English. Getting started usually means answering a few questions and setting up a first appointment.
Jennie recognizes that starting therapy takes courage and aims to make the first steps as clear and gentle as possible.
How Jennie’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy is about listening closely and shaping sessions around what matters most to the individual. It helps when someone needs a respectful, nonjudgmental space to talk through stressful thoughts and feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing small behavioral changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood. CBT is practical and often includes short exercises to try between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jennie will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That might mean starting with client-centered conversation and adding CBT tools when someone wants concrete strategies to manage panic, worry, or low mood.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer talk sessions. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief updates, quick coping strategies, or more frequent contact between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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