About Jennifer
Jennifer "Jenna" Nevins is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who helps people cope with anxiety and related struggles. She focuses on practical steps and steady support so clients can feel less overwhelmed and find clearer next steps. Jenna believes a strong working relationship is the heart of therapy.
She aims to build trust and understanding so people can talk about hard things without judgment. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs.
Background and approach
Her work addresses stress, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, depression, ADHD, and compassion fatigue, among other concerns. She also supports people dealing with relationship strain, parenting stress, adoption and foster care issues, chronic illness, and attachment questions. Jenna draws on approaches such as client-centered work, attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior tools, and EMDR.
She mixes practical coping skills with opportunities to look at patterns that keep problems going. Techniques are chosen together with the client rather than applied the same way for everyone. With five years of professional experience in Iowa, Jenna keeps sessions focused and down to earth.
She aims to help people understand where their struggles come from and to build manageable ways to feel steadier in daily life. The focus is on small, realistic changes that add up over time.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work
Attachment-based work focuses on how early connections shape current relationships. Online sessions can use conversations to notice patterns in how people relate, and then practice new ways of connecting with others or with oneself. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses exercises to change unhelpful patterns. In remote sessions, CBT often uses brief homework, thought records, and skill practice between meetings to create change.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That means trying tools, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together rather than sticking to one fixed method.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversation and reading nonverbal cues, phone sessions need less bandwidth, and chat or messaging can work for shorter check-ins or when writing feels easier. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into busy days and to keep up with regular sessions from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
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