About Jennifer
Jennifer Shaw-Klymyshyn is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 15 years of experience helping people cope with anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and life changes. She focuses on practical steps and clear strategies to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Jennifer works in Oregon and conducts sessions in English.
Her approach centers on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to uncover and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also draws on Motivational Interviewing to support people ready to make changes, and Narrative Therapy to help reframe personal stories that keep someone stuck.
Background and approach
These methods are used alongside solution-focused and psychodynamic ideas when they fit the client’s needs. Jennifer helps people address a wide range of concerns including addictions, trauma and abuse, relationship and communication problems, parenting strain, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with bipolar disorder, anger, low self-esteem, and family of origin issues.
Her style is strengths-based and person-centered. Sessions focus on small, achievable steps and on building skills you can use between meetings. She pays attention to emotional history and patterns while keeping goals practical and realistic.
Therapy is offered through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. Sessions are scheduled in mornings and early afternoons. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule according to the therapist’s availability.
Therapeutic approaches and what online therapy looks like
Jennifer commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and habits that feed anxiety and depression. CBT focuses on practical skills and short-term exercises that you can try between sessions to see tangible change.She also uses Motivational Interviewing to support people who want to make life changes but feel stuck or unsure. That approach uses guided conversation to clarify goals and strengthen personal motivation. Narrative Therapy is used as well to examine the stories people tell about themselves and to create alternative, more helpful narratives.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, history, and preferences. That means trying different techniques and adjusting plans based on what helps most.
Online therapy here is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules and needs. Video is good for a fuller conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to keep steady momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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