About Jennifer
Jennifer Altheimer is an ACA and PACFA counsellor with 18 years of experience who helps people facing anxiety, stress and relationship concerns. She supports people dealing with grief, low self-esteem, parenting challenges and career questions. Jennifer aims to create a warm, approachable space where clients can find their voice and make practical changes.
She prefers short, clear conversations that focus on strengths. Sessions are guided by what each person needs rather than a fixed formula.
Background and approach
Jennifer uses listening, reflective questions and gentle prompts to help people notice patterns and try new ways of relating to themselves and others. Her practice pays particular attention to family and relationship dynamics. She helps with communication problems, blended family issues, abandonment and attachment concerns, and difficulties around intimacy or commitment.
Jennifer also supports people working through trauma, abuse, eating and body image concerns, and compassion fatigue. Jennifer combines client-centred, mindfulness and solution-focused ideas with parts-work from Internal Family Systems. That mix is used flexibly so sessions stay practical and goal-oriented.
Clients may use brief coaching-style steps or slower reflective work depending on what they need. Practical supports such as managing change, coping skills and improving communication are commonly part of her work. Jennifer explains options clearly and helps people set small, achievable goals as they move forward.
How these approaches work in online sessions
Client-Centred Therapy means the counsellor listens closely and follows the client’s lead. The focus is on understanding each person’s priorities and building on their strengths to make steady progress. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple noticing and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and help with anxiety or stress. These techniques are useful for calming the body and thinking more clearly during difficult moments.Finding the right approach is usually a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and try different tools to see what helps. Sessions may use brief solution-focused steps some weeks and slower exploratory work other weeks, depending on what the client needs and prefers.
Online sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, offering flexibility around work and family life. Video is good for face-to-face conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text suit shorter check-ins or times when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit counselling into a busy schedule and to continue work between major life changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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