About Jennifer
Jennifer Spinner, LICSW, LCSW, brings 25 years of clinical experience to her work. She focuses on stress and anxiety and helps people facing relationship concerns, grief, addiction, and life changes. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental presence and listens closely to what matters to each person.
Her approach centers on building trusting rapport and practical skills. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to address unhelpful thoughts and patterns. She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people live by their values when anxiety or change feel overwhelming.
Background and approach
Attachment-based methods help when relationship patterns and intimacy issues cause pain. Dialectical behavior therapy strategies are used for emotion regulation and coping skills when feelings feel intense. Client-centered principles guide sessions so the person is heard and respected first.
Jennifer has worked with people across many life situations, including parenting stress, caregiving strain, chronic health concerns, and workplace challenges. She has also supported those dealing with eating or sleeping problems, ADHD, and identity matters related to LGBT concerns. Sessions emphasize clear, practical steps and collaborative planning.
She helps people set realistic goals, practice new skills between meetings, and adjust strategies as progress is made. Conversations are straightforward and aimed at easing daily functioning. Jennifer offers services in English and Spanish and sees clients based in Florida.
She does not accept international clients. Her background includes long-term clinical work and independent practice experience that informs a steady, empathetic style.
Therapeutic approaches for online anxiety care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to actions that match their values. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and major life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors that keep anxiety and depression active. It is practical and skill-based, often targeting sleep, worrying, and daily routines.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, symptoms, and preferences and then suggest approaches to try. This is a collaborative process and plans are adjusted as coping improves or new challenges arise.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for shorter check-ins, skill practice between sessions, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, caregiving, and other daily responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- 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
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida, North Dakota, District of Columbia, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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