About Jennifer
Jennifer Hornberger is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She uses practical strategies to help clients cope with difficult moments and navigate big life changes. Her style is direct and collaborative, aimed at giving people tools they can use between sessions.
With three years of experience, she draws on several therapeutic approaches to match each person's needs. She often incorporates elements from Dialectical Behavior Therapy - DBT - to teach emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are used to help slow racing thoughts and bring attention back to the present. Jennifer also uses motivational interviewing to support clients who feel stuck and want to change patterns. Narrative and solution-focused techniques help people reframe problems and identify small, practical steps forward.
These methods are useful for anxiety, panic, grief, trauma, and relationship stress. Her work covers a broad range of concerns including depression, bipolar disorder, postpartum mood changes, caregiver stress, and complicated grief. She also addresses family problems, communication issues, and coping after separation or loss.
Sessions are offered in English and Jennifer accepts international clients. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose the format that fits their day. To begin, someone completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to therapist availability.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Jennifer often uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy - DBT - to teach concrete skills for managing intense emotions and reducing panic attacks. DBT focuses on practices like distress-tolerance and emotion regulation that people can practice between sessions.She also brings mindfulness therapy into online work to help slow racing thoughts and improve moment-to-moment awareness. Mindfulness exercises are simple to guide over video or audio and can be practiced during brief check-ins. Motivational interviewing is used to help people find their own reasons for change and to set achievable steps when feeling stuck.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist discusses goals, preferences, and daily realities with each person and adjusts methods over time. Together they pick strategies that feel useful and sustainable rather than one fixed plan.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to work on these approaches. Video calls let a therapist demonstrate skills and observe reactions, phone sessions require less bandwidth, live chat can fit quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching or brief coping reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still practicing the same therapeutic tools used in traditional sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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