About Jennifer
Jennifer Fishman is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 17 years of experience. She practices from Oregon and focuses on practical support for everyday struggles like anxiety, stress, depression, and life changes. Her style is direct and collaborative, aiming to help people notice strengths they may have missed.
Jennifer draws on her background as an adult educator to make sessions clear and action oriented.
Background and approach
She explains techniques in plain language so clients can use them between meetings. She encourages people to build a personal toolbox of skills for handling emotions, relationships, work stress, and cravings related to addictions. In sessions she works to meet people where they are.
Conversations are guided by what the person needs that day, and Jennifer adapts methods to fit those needs. She often uses practical behavior-focused strategies along with reflective work about values and choices. Parents who worry about mood, grief, or relationship strain will find straightforward guidance rather than jargon.
She also offers support around identity concerns related to LGBT issues and intimacy-related questions. When needed she brings in skills for managing anger, bipolar symptoms, or substance-related struggles. Her goal is to help people leave a session with a concrete step they can try.
She teaches skills so clients can rely on them later. Jennifer frames therapy as a cooperative process aimed at clearer thinking and steadier coping.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's experience as they describe it. The therapist offers acceptance and reflection to help people clarify what matters to them and find their own direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and everyday stressors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication skills; it is helpful when strong emotions or impulsive behaviors get in the way of daily life.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and pick techniques that make sense for their situation. Methods can be blended over time, and the plan is adjusted if something is not working for the person's needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and deeper conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share thoughts and get short support between sessions or when writing feels easier. These options make scheduling easier and let therapy fit around work, family, and other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Idaho, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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