About Jennifer
Jennifer Bickford is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) based in Minnesota who offers a compassionate, person-centered approach. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety while addressing related concerns that affect daily life. Her style is warm, direct, and focused on practical steps that fit each person's situation.
She combines Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness practices to create a flexible plan. That means conversations begin with your priorities, then move toward specific skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Mindfulness work helps people notice feelings without getting swept away by them. Jennifer has 11 years of experience working with a wide range of issues. She supports people dealing with depression, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related concerns, and low self-esteem.
She also addresses parenting stress, caregiver strain, chronic illness and pain, and compassion fatigue. Her additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment concerns, communication problems, codependency and commitment issues, body image, and questions around kink and alternative sex culture. She brings narrative and motivational interviewing techniques when helping people reframe their stories and find motivation for change.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. People begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and then schedule according to therapist availability. Costs vary with location and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Jennifer draws on Client-Centered Therapy to begin by listening and following each person's priorities. That approach focuses on understanding your experience and shaping sessions around what matters most to you. It helps when people need a supportive space to sort out feelings and decide on next steps.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thoughts and develop practical skills. CBT is action-oriented and works well for anxiety, stress, and low mood by teaching tools you can use between sessions. Mindfulness Therapy is added to help with staying present and noticing sensations and thoughts without reacting to them, which supports emotion regulation.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Jennifer collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and preferences, and adjusts plans as needed. The process is conversational and goal-focused rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be a shorter check-in or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, and busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- 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
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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