About Jennifer
Jennifer Quirina is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of practice. She holds LCSW credentials and works from a straightforward, human-centered approach. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed or stuck and values a respectful, listening first style.
She aims to build a calm, steady working relationship where people can let down defenses and talk about real problems. In sessions she focuses on noticing what is happening now and finding practical ways to manage stress.
Background and approach
She uses clear tools to help with anxiety, self-esteem, career questions, and major life changes. Jennifer has particular interest in supporting people through perinatal and new parenting transitions, adoption and foster care experiences, and LGBT concerns. She also helps those coping with attachment questions, abandonment, autism or Asperger syndrome related issues, and fertility challenges.
Her care emphasizes validation and step-by-step problem solving. Her style blends short-term problem solving with skills people can practice between sessions. She often introduces simple exercises for managing worry, regulating intense feelings, and improving everyday routines.
Sessions move at a practical pace and are shaped by each person’s goals. Jennifer practices from Illinois and offers a calm, approachable presence for people looking to reduce anxiety, handle life transitions, or strengthen self-worth. She invites straightforward conversation and works with people to build useful, manageable strategies.
Practical approaches that translate online
Jennifer often draws from cognitive behavioral ideas that focus on spotting unhelpful thinking and trying small experiments to reduce anxiety and improve mood. These techniques break worries into manageable steps and teach concrete skills people can practice between sessions.She also uses elements from solution-focused work, which centers on identifying strengths and small changes that lead to quick improvements. This approach is useful for people with specific goals like managing stress at work or adjusting to life changes. When needed, she incorporates dialectical behavioral strategies that teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills to handle intense moments more calmly.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jennifer collaborates with each person to pick techniques that fit their needs and goals. Together they check what helps and adjust methods over time so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and teaching exercises; phone sessions can be simpler if bandwidth is limited; live chat and messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter, focused exchanges. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Fertility issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, California
- Languages
- English
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