About Jennifer
Jennifer Manning is a licensed clinical social worker with thirteen years of direct therapy experience. She focuses on anxiety, stress, trauma, grief, parenting concerns, and ADHD. Her style is warm and practical, aimed at helping people make small changes that add up to real relief.
She builds a collaborative relationship and centers each session on the client's goals. Sessions often look like a guided conversation where clients share what feels hardest and identify small steps to try between meetings.
Background and approach
Jennifer uses a strengths-based outlook to notice what already works and to expand those skills. Her background includes work with trauma and complex family challenges. She draws on trauma-focused methods to address past harm and systemic ideas to consider family patterns.
Mindfulness techniques are used to help people manage intense feelings in the moment. Practical tools are emphasized alongside understanding. Those might include breathing and grounding practices, choices for changing unhelpful behaviors, and strategies for improving communication.
Jennifer helps clients plan realistic, concrete steps they can try outside sessions. She takes a straightforward approach to progress: set a goal, test a new action, review what changed, and adjust. Sessions are conversational and paced to match each person's needs.
People who value a direct, empathetic partner in their work often find this approach useful.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's own goals and experiences. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps clients name priorities and next steps. This approach is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions because it centers the client's values and choices.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple practices to notice thoughts and bodily sensations without getting swept away. Short exercises during sessions and small daily practices between meetings can reduce reactivity and make panic and worry easier to manage. Trauma-focused therapy looks at the effects of traumatic events and helps people process upsetting memories while building coping skills for strong emotions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level, and can adjust the plan as progress is reviewed. That cooperative process helps ensure sessions feel relevant and doable.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer conversations and practicing new skills, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or callers prefer no camera, and chat or text can be a brief check-in or a way to share progress between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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