About Jennifer
Jennifer Gilman is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She also supports those facing grief, depression, addiction, and life transitions. Her work covers relationship and intimacy concerns, career strain, parenting stress, and issues tied to identity and LGBT experiences.
She uses a straightforward, client-centered style. Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer communication. Jennifer helps people spot patterns, try small changes, and build emotional resilience.
Background and approach
With 32 years of experience, she draws on a wide clinical background to tailor each session. She listens for what matters most and adjusts pace to match individual needs. The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Jennifer often combines techniques that address thinking, behavior, and feelings together. That mix can help with anxiety, coping during big life changes, and relationship problems. She also supports people dealing with trauma, addiction, body image, and sleep or eating concerns.
Sessions are offered in English and take place online through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Getting started involves a short questionnaire and scheduling through the site. Fees vary with location and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Jennifer integrates evidence-based techniques that focus on thoughts, behaviors, and emotional patterns. One common approach targets thinking habits and unhelpful beliefs to ease anxiety and low mood; it helps people notice thought patterns and practice different, more helpful responses. Another method focuses on behavioral changes and coping skills - setting small experiments, building routines, and practicing relaxation or sleep strategies to reduce stress and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, try methods that fit those aims, and adjust based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist decide together which techniques to keep using and which to change.
Online therapy offers practical benefits: video calls allow in-depth conversation and visual connection, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows brief check-ins during busy days, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines while keeping momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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