About Jennifer
Jennifer Gleizer is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California. She focuses on stress and anxiety, addictions, relationship strains, family conflicts, and life transitions. Jennifer offers a calm, practical approach to help people take the next step toward feeling better.
She uses short, clear conversations to identify what matters most to each person. Jennifer draws on approaches that aim to change unhelpful thoughts, rewrite the stories people tell about themselves, and find workable solutions for day-to-day problems.
Background and approach
Sessions are tailored to the issue at hand and to each person's pace. Jennifer leans on 15 years of experience in clinical settings to guide decisions about treatment direction. She pays attention to patterns that show up across relationships and family history, and she helps people notice how those patterns affect current choices.
The work is practical and often focused on small, concrete steps. In therapy she addresses topics like abandonment, codependency, communication problems, divorce and separation, and substance use concerns. Jennifer also helps with feelings of guilt, shame, low self-love, and questions about life purpose and sexuality.
Her style is direct but compassionate, and she aims to make sessions useful from the first meeting. Clients can expect collaborative planning and clear goals. Jennifer supports people as they try new ways of relating and coping, and she adjusts plans when life circumstances change.
How Jennifer’s Approaches Work Online
Jennifer often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes that reduce anxiety and stress. CBT focuses on noticing thought patterns and testing new ways of thinking and acting to change how you feel.Narrative Therapy is another approach she uses to separate a person from their problems and rewrite painful stories. This can be useful for issues like shame, guilt, and family of origin patterns because it helps people see alternate meanings and possibilities.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or has not worked before. Together they decide whether to emphasize CBT, narrative work, solution-focused steps, or Internal Family Systems parts work based on the situation.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation when a fuller interaction is helpful. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can fit brief updates, between-session coaching, or days when writing feels easier than speaking.
These formats make it easier to schedule regular sessions around work, caregiving, and other responsibilities while keeping the therapeutic focus on concrete goals and real-life changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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