About Jennifer
Jennifer Gadberry, LPC, offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She keeps sessions straightforward and focused on small steps that fit daily life. Jenn listens first and helps clients set clear goals they can try between visits.
She has worked as a counselor in Southeast Missouri for more than two decades. Her background includes crisis counseling, outpatient care, and roles in residential treatment for children and teens.
Background and approach
She also teaches psychology at the college level and often helps young adults through life transitions. In sessions Jennifer uses a client-centered approach that emphasizes a person’s strengths. She combines that with cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and solution-focused work to plan practical next steps.
She also uses mindfulness, relaxation, and narrative exercises when those tools fit the person’s needs. Jennifer has helped people with depression, relationship problems, parenting stress, grief, eating concerns, anger, bipolar challenges, ADHD, trauma and other life changes. Her goal is to create a nonjudgmental space where clients can try new behaviors and build momentum toward their goals.
She frames progress as a series of achievable moves rather than sudden fixes. Clients and the therapist collaborate to set realistic steps, track what helps, and adjust the plan. Jennifer presents therapy as a shared process rooted in respect and practical problem solving.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Jennifer uses client-centered therapy to create a listening, nonjudgmental space where the person’s strengths guide the work. This approach helps people who want a supportive place to sort out feelings and make decisions.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is useful for worry, low mood, and patterns that keep problems going. Solution-focused therapy rounds out her work by setting small, concrete goals and tracking what actually makes things better in daily life.
Choosing an approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit, and adjust based on what helps. The process is aimed at finding practical tools that match the person's needs and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video lets people use face-to-face conversation when convenient. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can work when a camera isn't desired. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit brief check-ins or quick problem-solving into a busy day. These options help people maintain continuity of care while juggling work, family, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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