About Jennifer
Dr. Jennifer Cowen is a California psychologist with 23 years of experience helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She supports individuals facing depression, grief, life changes, and challenges around parenting, relationships, and self-esteem.
She also works with people managing ADHD, trauma and abuse, sleep or eating concerns, and career or caregiver strain. Her sessions are straightforward and focused on practical steps. She combines cognitive behavioral strategies with acceptance-based ideas to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try new responses.
Background and approach
She also draws on attachment-informed thinking to address relationship and intimacy issues. Dr. Cowen trained at UCLA and completed postdoctoral work concentrated on early childhood.
She uses research-backed approaches and standard assessment methods to shape treatment plans that fit each person’s situation. Her background informs how she sees patterns that link childhood experience to adult worries. Therapy with her centers on clear goals and gradual skill-building.
She helps clients set realistic steps for coping, improving sleep and eating habits, managing anger, and building confidence. Sessions can include short homework tasks and practical exercises to try between meetings. People who work with Dr.
Cowen can expect a collaborative, respectful approach. She listens for what matters most, then tailors methods to those priorities. The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes, with attention to both feelings and daily routines.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and focus on actions that match their values. It can be useful for ongoing anxiety, stress, and life transitions when getting clearer about priorities matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and uses practical exercises to change patterns that worsen anxiety or depression. It often includes short homework tasks to try new responses between sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current ways of relating and can help with intimacy, communication, and trust issues.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then propose methods that fit. That decision is collaborative and can be adjusted as therapy progresses so the plan stays aligned with what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video works well for full sessions and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick updates, short reflections, or ongoing coaching-style support. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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