About Jennifer
Jennifer Linarello is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Indiana with 23 years of experience. She focuses on helping people cope with stress and anxiety and other life challenges. Her manner is warm and straightforward, and she aims to make sessions practical and understandable for busy caregivers and parents.
She helps people work through depression, grief, trauma, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, and parenting concerns. She also addresses sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, career shifts, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Jennifer supports clients facing adoption and foster care issues, aging and caregiver stress, attachment concerns, and family of origin problems. Her approach centers on the person in front of her. She begins by building rapport and pointing out existing strengths.
From there she uses tools that fit each person's needs rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Jennifer draws on client-centered methods alongside practical skills-based approaches. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques are used to change unhelpful thoughts and improve emotion regulation.
Mindfulness practices and body-awareness exercises are woven into sessions to help people stay grounded. Sessions may include short coaching-style work when clients want concrete steps toward a goal. She explains strategies in plain language and practices new skills together in session.
Her aim is to help people make small, doable changes that add up over time.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy puts the person’s concerns first and emphasizes listening and empathy to help identify strengths and goals. This approach helps when someone needs time to feel heard and to clarify what they want to change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress because it breaks issues into clear, manageable steps.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete tools for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal skills. Elements of DBT are helpful when someone struggles with anger, mood swings, or relationship conflict.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try different techniques, and adjust methods based on what feels useful. Clients and the therapist decide together which tools to keep using.
Online sessions offer flexibility for people with busy schedules. Video calls let therapists demonstrate skills and practice exercises together, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are good for brief check-ins, coaching between sessions, and building new habits over time. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or school routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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