About Jennifer
Jennifer Ranieri is a PACFA counsellor with seven years' experience supporting people under stress and anxiety. She works with individuals facing mood disturbances, trauma and abuse, eating concerns, bipolar presentations and LGBT-related issues. She focuses on building safety, trust and choice in sessions.
Jennifer takes a trauma-informed stance. That means she asks what has happened to a person and listens for how those events affect day-to-day life. She emphasises collaboration and consent, so clients help shape their goals and the pace of work.
Background and approach
Dialectical behaviour therapy is a key part of her practice. She uses practical skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance and clearer communication. Those tools are taught in simple steps and practised in session so people can try them between meetings.
Sessions can include conversations about behaviour patterns, coping strategies for anxiety, and ways to reduce self-harm urges or disordered eating behaviours. She also pays attention to identity and belonging when LGBT matters are raised, offering a nonjudgemental space to talk. Jennifer describes therapy as a partnership.
She supports people to build strength and make changes that feel manageable. Her aim is to help clients move towards more stable mood, less overwhelming anxiety and greater day-to-day coping.
Practical therapy approaches and online options
Jennifer commonly uses dialectical behaviour therapy to teach clear, practical skills for managing intense emotions, reducing impulsive reactions and improving communication. DBT skills are often helpful for people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety or who struggle with self-harm urges and mood instability.She also works from a trauma-informed perspective, which means sessions focus on understanding how past events affect current behaviour and on building safety, choice and collaboration in each meeting. This approach suits people who need a slower, more careful way of exploring distressing experiences.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and decide together with each person which methods fit their needs, goals and preferences. That collaborative process helps tailor the focus and pace of therapy.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and skills practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat can suit shorter check-ins or between-session support. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to access help from different locations.
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Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Eating disorders
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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