About Jennifer
Jennifer Kind is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Oregon with 11 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel stuck in old thinking and behavior patterns that cause stress, shame, or overwhelm. Her approach is warm, collaborative, and often honest with a touch of humor to ease hard conversations.
Jennifer begins by helping people notice the automatic reactions that keep problems alive. From that awareness, she supports small shifts in how someone responds to stress, relationships, and difficult feelings.
Background and approach
She uses practical tools alongside reflective conversation so change can stick. Her work pulls from attachment ideas and cognitive-behavioral techniques to address relationship struggles, anxiety, mood concerns, and identity-related stress. Mindfulness practices are woven in to help calm the nervous system and increase present-moment choices.
Sessions tend to mix skill-building with deeper exploration of personal history when that feels useful. Jennifer earned a Master of Arts in Integral Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She describes her style as relaxed and curious, aiming to build self-compassion and shame resilience while helping people gain more agency in their lives.
Practical concerns like coping with life changes, stress, ADHD, grief, and career uncertainty are common topics she addresses. She often uses clear, down-to-earth language and concrete strategies so people can try things between sessions and notice real differences.
If someone wants a therapist who blends evidence-informed techniques with relational warmth and occasional levity, Jennifer may be a good fit to explore next steps together.
How Jennifer’s Approaches Translate Online
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in relationships and how early bonds shape current reactions; online sessions use conversation and reflective exercises to help people notice and change these patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral experiments; in remote sessions this becomes clear action steps and short exercises to try between meetings. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to calm stress and increase choice in difficult moments, and these practices can be guided over video or audio just as in person.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Jennifer will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. She often blends approaches so sessions feel tailored rather than one-size-fits-all and checks in frequently to adjust the plan based on what is helpful.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls let people have a fuller face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a shorter break in the day. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, homework guidance, and staying connected between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting varied schedules and communication styles.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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