About Jennifer
Jennifer Ladd is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Tennessee who helps people manage anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, grief, and trauma. She draws on 13 years of clinical experience to offer steady, practical support. Her manner is conversational and compassionate, with a focus on listening and understanding what lies beneath the presenting problems.
She works in a direct, interactive style. Sessions aim to uncover the reasons behind difficult thoughts and behaviors, and to build manageable steps forward.
Background and approach
She combines clear techniques with attentive listening so clients can make changes that fit their life. Her approach mixes cognitive behavioral tools with acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused perspectives, and client-centered conversation. Jennifer adapts methods to each person instead of using a one-size-fits-all plan.
She has used these methods across individual and group formats. Jennifer pays attention to how early relationships, attachment patterns, and life events shape current struggles. She also addresses issues such as parenting stress, burnout, chronic illness impacts, and sexual identity concerns when they relate to a person's well-being.
Practical skill-building - like emotion regulation and communication practice - is included when helpful. Clients can expect a respectful, nonjudgmental space where goals are set together. The emphasis is on clear steps you can try between sessions, and on noticing small, steady progress.
Jennifer aims to support people as they move toward greater balance and relief.
Approaches that guide online work
Jennifer uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help people recognize unhelpful thought patterns and test new ways of thinking and acting. CBT is practical and often focuses on small behavior changes that reduce anxiety and improve mood.She also draws on attachment-based therapy to look at how early relationship patterns influence current connections and emotional responses. This approach helps people understand closeness, trust, and recurring relationship cycles.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Jennifer will talk with clients about their goals, needs, and preferences and then tailor methods. That collaborative process helps decide whether CBT, attachment work, or another method fits best for a person at a given time.
Online therapy with her is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make scheduling more flexible, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and offer options when bandwidth or camera use is an issue. Many people find it easier to attend regularly when they can choose the format that fits their day.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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