About Jennifer
Jennifer "Jenny" Nelson is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, mood swings, and anger. She focuses on practical steps someone can use day to day. Jenny speaks plainly and works to make sessions feel manageable for a worried parent reading on a phone.
She designs sessions around each person's strengths and life situation. Jenny encourages small, concrete changes that add up over time. She also pays attention to neurodevelopmental differences and intellectual disability when those are part of a person's story.
Background and approach
Her approach blends straightforward talking with skills practice. She uses goal-focused methods to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try alternative responses. Mindfulness and emotional regulation tools are brought in as needed to reduce reactivity and increase calm.
Jenny has six years of experience as an LCSW - licensed clinical social worker. That background informs how she listens for practical needs and safety as well as emotional concerns. She keeps the work focused and paced to match what a person can use right now.
In sessions she collaborates on a plan that fits daily life. That may include short exercises between meetings to build skills and track progress. The emphasis is on manageable strategies for coping with anxiety, grief, relationship strain, ADHD-related challenges, and life changes.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and building the plan around what matters to the person. It helps when someone needs a supportive space to name problems and decide on practical next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on how thoughts and actions influence feelings and teaches concrete strategies to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers skills for managing strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and handling conflict more effectively.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and try methods that fit the person’s habits, values, and daily demands. Together they will adjust strategies over time so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skills demonstration. Phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, coaching between sessions, or when writing out thoughts helps clarify feelings. These formats make it easier to schedule therapy around childcare, work, or other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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