About Jennifer
Jennifer Hayden is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Colorado with 22 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and related life challenges. Her style is straightforward and focused on helping people feel safer and more capable in daily life.
Jennifer blends practical talk therapy with methods that address memory and intense reactions. She uses client-centered work to follow each person's priorities and cognitive behavioral techniques to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
She also incorporates mindfulness to help people manage stress in the moment. Her background includes long experience in mental health and substance use care, and she draws on that history when supporting people with addiction concerns and co-occurring issues. She frames problems in ways that reduce stigma and strengthens a person's sense of control.
Jennifer often uses EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - as one of several ways to address traumatic memories and strong emotional reactions. She adapts how she works to match what a person needs, whether that means skills practice, talking through patterns, or targeted trauma work. Sessions can include short-term coaching goals or longer therapeutic work depending on the issue.
Jennifer aims to help people improve sleep, reduce anxiety, manage mood swings, and find clearer choices during life transitions.
Therapeutic approaches for online work and recovery
Jennifer commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. Client-centered work means the therapist follows the person's priorities, listens closely, and helps build on personal strengths. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on noticing thought and behavior patterns and trying practical experiments to change them.She also uses EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - for people who want targeted work on traumatic memories or intense emotional reactions. EMDR pairs focused memory work with bilateral stimulation to reduce the intensity of distressing memories and related triggers.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences and then suggest options. That decision is collaborative and can change over time as needs shift.
Online therapy offers flexibility across several formats: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video isn't possible, live chat for shorter exchanges, and text-based messaging for ongoing check-ins. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, reduce travel, and use different tools for skills practice and symptom tracking.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- 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
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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