About Jennifer
Jennifer Covington is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She works with adults coping with depression, relationship strain, grief, and changes that make everyday life harder. Her tone is straightforward and practical, aimed at people who feel overwhelmed by work, family, or health concerns.
She draws on 13 years of experience and uses conversation that focuses on real problems and clear steps. Sessions aim to reduce immediate distress and build skills for handling future challenges.
Background and approach
Jennifer adapts plans to each person instead of using one fixed approach. Her work includes helping with addictions, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, sleep and eating concerns, and caregiving stress. She also supports people dealing with ADHD, bipolar symptoms, body image, and communication struggles.
Jennifer pays attention to how life events and relationships affect daily functioning. Therapy blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, dialectical skills, and a client-centered stance. She uses motivational strategies when people want help making changes.
Conversations focus on what matters to the person and on small, practical steps that fit their life. Jennifer practices in North Carolina and offers a variety of online formats. New clients start by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling sessions.
Her approach is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
How Jennifer’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then move toward what matters in life. It can help with anxiety, stress, avoidance, and coping with big life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to ease symptoms like anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and low mood.Choosing the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and daily life. Sessions begin with what feels most urgent and adapt over time as progress and challenges emerge.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different routines. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging works for ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and busy schedules while keeping the focus on practical skills and steady progress.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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