About Jennifer
Jennifer Gaumer is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 15 years of practice in California. She brings experience from hospital-based child guidance, residential treatment, and community parenting programs. Her approach is warm and interactive, and she aims to help people manage stress and anxiety with straightforward tools.
She uses talking therapy alongside behavior-focused techniques to address symptoms. Jennifer has worked with people facing depression, trauma and abuse, addiction, and mood disorders.
Background and approach
She has experience supporting those dealing with parenting and family challenges as well as young adult issues. Her training includes work as a forensic interviewer, which informs how she listens to trauma and abuse histories. Jennifer earned a Master of Social Work from the University of Connecticut and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Clark University.
She practices in California as an LCSW. In sessions she mixes practical skill-building with mindfulness and acceptance strategies. That can look like noticing unhelpful thoughts, practicing simple grounding, and trying small behavior changes between sessions.
She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy and solution-focused work to help people handle strong emotions and solve current problems. Outside of therapy she gardens, renovates homes, reads, and spends time at the beach with her husband and two daughters. Her style is steady and encouraging, aimed at helping people take the next manageable step toward feeling better.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and then choose actions that match their values. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change patterns that keep problems going; it is commonly used for panic, depression, and social anxiety.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jennifer will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and daily life. Together they’ll try skills, review what helps, and adjust the plan over time so it feels useful and doable.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat and messaging offer brief check-ins and ways to work between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work when life is changing.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California, Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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