About Jennifer
Dr. Jennifer Outlaw helps people facing stress, anxiety, sleep troubles, addiction, mood disorders, and relationship strain. She supports those coping with life changes, parenting challenges, self-esteem struggles, and work-related stress.
Her approach also addresses trauma, eating concerns, anger, and ADHD-related difficulties. Jennifer holds multiple clinical social work credentials and a medical degree, and she has worked in mental health settings for 10 years. She has delivered services in both inpatient and outpatient environments and has experience with a broad range of mental and behavioral health conditions.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with people living with severe and persistent mental illness such as bipolar disorder and major depression. In sessions she aims to be direct and compassionate. Conversations focus on practical steps people can try between meetings.
She blends evidence-informed methods and listens for what matters most to each person. Therapy often uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thought and behavior patterns. Mindfulness and acceptance tools help people manage difficult feelings in daily life.
When trauma is part of the story, she may use approaches aimed at processing painful memories. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She invites clients to set clear goals and to test small changes.
The aim is steady progress over time, with techniques that fit each person’s life and responsibilities.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to actions that match their values. It can reduce the time spent wrestling with worry and lead to clearer daily priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. CBT provides concrete exercises for managing anxiety, sleep problems, low mood, and stress. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is used to work through traumatic memories and the strong emotions tied to them; it can help people feel less overwhelmed by past events.Deciding which approach to use is a joint process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try methods that fit the individual's needs and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility with multiple ways to connect. Video calls are useful for deeper conversation and visual rapport. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people send short updates, ask quick questions between sessions, or keep therapy going during busy schedules. These options make it easier to fit care into work, caregiving, or travel routines while using the chosen therapeutic approaches.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Maryland, Georgia, South Carolina, Texas
- Languages
- English
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