About Jennifer
Jennifer Fitkin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 20 years of clinical experience. She practices from Iowa and has worked in a variety of settings, bringing long-term experience to conversations about stress, anxiety, parenting, and life transitions. She uses straightforward methods in sessions, focusing on what people can do between meetings.
Jennifer draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and mindfulness practices to help clients notice patterns and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and goal-minded while still allowing time to process hard feelings. Her background includes clinical roles in residential treatment, community programs for foster care, and work inside correctional settings. That range shaped her focus on attachment, trauma, and addiction-related concerns.
She also has experience supervising clinicians and directing treatment programs. Jennifer earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Master of Social Work from the University of Northern Iowa. She holds LCSW and CSW credentials and has completed additional trainings in Motivational Interviewing and related approaches.
Her practice integrates skills training, values work, and clear action steps. Outside of therapy she values outdoor time, travel, backpacking, paddleboarding, and CrossFit. She mentions a dog named Boomer who sometimes appears during remote sessions.
That mix of practical skills and life experience informs her calm, activity-friendly approach.
How Jennifer’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It’s useful for anxiety, stress, and feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors to change mood and reactions; it’s practical for depression, anxiety, and coping skills. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple present-moment practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm, which complements both ACT and CBT.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jennifer collaborates with each person to see which methods fit their goals and daily life. She often blends techniques and adjusts the plan as progress is made, so clients help shape the path forward.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is helpful when visual cues matter, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or a quieter check-in is needed, and live chat or messaging can suit quick updates or shorter coaching-style exchanges. These options let people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep steady contact between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Utah, Colorado, Iowa, Florida, Texas
- Languages
- English
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