About Jennifer
Jennifer Forbes is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia with seven years of clinical experience. She helps people facing anxiety, stress, mood concerns, and life transitions. Her style is warm and straightforward.
She believes clients know their own stories and brings support to help them move forward. She focuses on practical steps that fit daily life. Sessions look at patterns that keep problems stuck and build new routines that feel doable.
Background and approach
Jennifer often works on coping skills for anxiety, managing mood swings, and improving self-esteem and body image. Her approach blends person-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. That means the conversation centers on what matters most to the client while also introducing skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She uses solution-focused ideas to set clear, short-term goals. Jennifer has experience with eating and food-related issues, trauma and post-traumatic stress, obsessive behaviors, grief, addiction concerns, and issues related to prejudice and discrimination. She also supports people dealing with career stress, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, and bipolar or depressive mood patterns.
Sessions are offered in English and available through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Jennifer describes therapy as a partnership - she listens, reflects, and offers practical next steps. If someone is ready to try a different path, she can help map out the first steps.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and following the client's lead to understand what matters most. It helps people feel heard and build confidence to try new steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce anxiety and low mood. It often includes simple home practice and behavioral experiments that fit into daily routines.Finding the right approach is a team process. The therapist will ask about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they will try techniques and adjust the plan so sessions match the person's needs and pace.
Online therapy can make that collaborative work easier to fit into life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients share thoughts between sessions or use brief, flexible check-ins during busy days. These options support consistent work on anxiety, coping skills, and behavioral experiments without needing to pause other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Grief
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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