About Jennifer
Jennifer Kordell is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) based in Minnesota who focuses on practical, person-centered care. She aims to meet people where they are and supports them as they work through stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life changes. Her approach is casual, warm, direct, and patient.
Sessions emphasize the client's own goals and strengths. Jennifer lets people set the pace and offers steady guidance rather than pushing big rapid changes.
Background and approach
Jennifer uses a mix of approaches to suit different needs. She incorporates client-centered techniques, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior tools, mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing depending on the situation. This variety helps address things like coping skills, self-esteem, and relationship or communication problems.
She has three years of clinical experience and holds a Master of Social Work earned earlier in her career. Jennifer has spent time supporting people with depression and anxiety and has worked across varied cultural backgrounds. Her LICSW qualifies her to provide clinical social work services in Minnesota.
Therapy sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Jennifer often has weekday evening availability and focuses on steady, practical steps that fit each person's life and schedule.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following a person's lead. It emphasizes respect for each person's goals and uses gentle questions to help them find their own answers. This approach can help with anxiety, low confidence, and navigating life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It offers practical tools to challenge unhelpful thoughts and build different behaviors, which is useful for managing anxiety and depression. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication when emotions feel overwhelming.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose strategies that fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. Treatment can shift over time as priorities change or progress is made.
Online therapy makes these approaches accessible by offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions work well when internet or bandwidth is limited, live chat and text support shorter check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. Together these options offer flexibility to fit appointments into busy lives while using the therapeutic tools that matter most.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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