About Jennifer
Jennifer Schweinhard is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in Washington with 15 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress or anxiety, and those managing depression, grief, trauma, or life changes. She also supports people dealing with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting concerns, addiction, and identity or sexuality questions.
She worked in community mental health and independent practice and holds a Master of Psychology in Marriage and Family Therapy from Chapman University.
Background and approach
Jennifer also earned a Child Mental Health Specialist designation and has provided clinical supervision to provisional licensees, interns, and senior clinicians earlier in her career. Her credential is LMHC, which stands for Licensed Mental Health Counselor. Her approach is collaborative and straightforward.
She helps clients make a plan that fits their goals and builds on existing strengths. Sessions focus on practical steps, clearer thinking, and learning new ways to cope when old patterns cause pain. In sessions she aims to create a nonjudgmental space where people can talk about hard things and try new ways of handling them.
She uses methods that look at relationships and beliefs, and also tools that teach specific skills for managing thoughts and behavior. Progress is paced to what each person can handle. Signing up starts with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits.
Jennifer uses a mix of session formats to make therapy accessible for different needs and schedules.
How these approaches form the basis for online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand how they relate to others and learn new ways to connect when old patterns cause distress. Client-Centered Therapy centers on the client's experience and pacing; the therapist listens closely and follows the client's lead to help them find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then try methods that match those needs. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as progress or challenges appear.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed, live chat supports shorter focused exchanges, and text messaging makes it easier to keep momentum between sessions. These options make it simpler to match therapy to daily life and commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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