About Jennifer
Jennifer Maguire is a Licensed Professional Counselor in New Jersey with 25 years of counseling experience. She offers a warm, interactive style and aims to make each person feel heard and respected. Jennifer listens carefully and works with people to set practical goals they can work toward.
Her work is client-centered, which means clients guide the direction of sessions while she helps shape a plan. She draws on several evidence-based methods to help people who are dealing with anxiety, stress, grief, depression, addictions, trauma, and other life challenges.
Background and approach
Jennifer uses a strengths-based approach to identify what already works and build on it. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps clients notice connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions and change patterns that cause distress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers concrete skills in mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and relationship effectiveness.
Attachment-based ideas help explore how past bonds influence current relationships and intimacy. Sessions focus on problem solving, skill building, and practical steps that fit daily life. Jennifer also supports people facing career pressures, caregiving strain, chronic illness, parenting questions, and self-esteem or identity issues.
She tailors plans to each person’s goals and pace. People who choose to work with Jennifer will find a collaborative partner who emphasizes dignity, compassion, and real-world coping strategies.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Jennifer commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in online work. CBT focuses on noticing and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression. It is useful for managing stress, intrusive thoughts, and problem-focused goals. DBT teaches practical skills in mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness to help people navigate strong emotions and relationship challenges.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. From there she blends approaches and adjusts the plan so sessions feel relevant and manageable for the client's life.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues for a fuller conversation, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can be a quicker check-in or a way to process between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or daily routines while still focusing on skill practice and goal progress.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- 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
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- 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)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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