About Jennifer
Dr. Jennifer Hanket-Held is a Tennessee psychologist with 13 years of experience helping people cope with anxiety and related concerns. She offers a calm, direct style that aims to reduce worry and improve day-to-day functioning.
Her approach is practical and personal, focused on small steps that add up to real change. She works with people facing stress, trauma and abuse, depression, grief, sleep problems, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses relationship and family concerns and has additional focus on domestic violence, veteran and armed forces issues, and sexual assault and abuse.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and grounded in concrete strategies rather than abstract theory. Her methods draw on cognitive behavioral techniques and trauma-focused work, with elements of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and existential thinking when useful. She adapts sessions to each person’s situation, aiming to match techniques to what the person needs that week.
The tone in sessions is warm and interactive, while staying goal-oriented. Dr. Hanket-Held treats therapy as a partnership: she brings clinical tools and the client brings personal knowledge about their life.
Together they set clear goals and practical steps to move forward. Progress is tracked in straightforward ways so people can see what is changing. She practices in Tennessee as TN Psychologist 2554 and provides sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
People should expect an approach that balances kindness with focused skill-building to manage anxiety and other struggles.
Online approaches that focus on symptoms and daily life
Dr. Hanket-Held commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them. CBT is often used for anxiety, sleep problems, and depression because it breaks concerns into manageable parts and teaches coping tools.She also uses Trauma-Focused Therapy to address responses that come after abuse, assault, or other traumatic events. This approach helps people process distressing memories and reduce intense reactions while building safety and coping skills.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will discuss options with each person and adapt methods based on goals, preferences, and what is helping. The plan is collaborative so clients can steer sessions toward what feels most useful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat and text messaging suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and make it easier to keep regular contact with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Relationship issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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