About Jennifer
Jennifer Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with eight years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical steps people can take when anxiety, stress, or difficult emotions make day-to-day life harder. Jennifer speaks English and Spanish and aims to make sessions easy to follow for busy people.
Her approach is straightforward and goal-oriented. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different ways of thinking and acting.
Background and approach
Solution-Focused Therapy helps set clear, achievable goals so progress becomes visible quickly. Jennifer also brings trauma-focused methods into work with people who have been through abuse or other traumatic events. She helps people build coping skills and reduce the ways trauma shows up in daily life.
Sessions include practical tools to manage anger, grief, sleep problems, or stress-related symptoms. Clients often talk about relationship strain, career stress, or low self-esteem, and Jennifer helps them break these problems into manageable steps. She offers coaching-style guidance for people navigating life changes or career transitions.
Her style is calm, direct, and collaborative; she aims to make each session feel like a useful conversation. Jennifer works with addictions, bipolar concerns, ADHD, and a wide range of other issues listed in her specialties. She accepts international clients and adapts approaches to fit each person’s needs.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session.
Practical approaches for online anxiety and trauma care
Jennifer uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice patterns of thinking that keep anxiety and low mood going, then practices new responses that change feelings and behavior. Solution-Focused Therapy is used to identify small, realistic goals and build on what already works in a person’s life. Trauma-Focused Therapy addresses how past harm affects present reactions and focuses on skills to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.Choosing the best approach is part of the work. Jennifer will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. The plan can change over time as progress and challenges become clearer, and decisions are made together in session.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video visits allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a useful option when bandwidth is limited, live chat works well for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep continuity when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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