About Jennifer
Jennifer Malott is a licensed clinical social worker with twelve years of clinical experience. She brings a calm, approachable manner to sessions and focuses on clear goals. She often helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar concerns, and work-related strain.
Her background includes vocational counseling work, which gave her tools for addressing employment and career stress. That experience informs practical conversations about balancing work, family, and other demands.
Background and approach
She helps people break big problems into smaller steps they can act on. Jennifer uses a relaxed, client-centered style. Sessions are conversational and paced to the person in the room.
At the same time she keeps therapy focused on concrete changes and choices that move progress along. She draws on several therapeutic approaches to match a person’s needs, including acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, and mindfulness practices. Those methods support emotion regulation, shifting unhelpful thinking, and building new habits.
Many people come to her with anxiety, grief, trauma, addiction concerns, parenting worries, ADHD, or identity and relationship stress. She works to create clear next steps so clients can try things between sessions and notice what helps. Jennifer practices in Indiana and conducts sessions using video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
She aims to tailor the pace and tools to each person’s goals and day-to-day life.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Jennifer blends a few approaches to match what each person needs. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then choose actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying practical experiments to change them. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and increase calm.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, daily challenges, and preferences, then try methods that seem most helpful. Plans can be adjusted over time based on what works and what doesn’t.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls let people use visual cues and a full conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging suit short check-ins, homework review, or days when a briefer touch is preferred. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care while juggling work, family, and other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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