About Jenny
Jenny Wright is a Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing from Missouri. She brings three years as a licensed therapist and a longer history in mental health work to her sessions. Jenny focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety while also addressing depression, addictions, and relationship concerns.
She aims to meet each person where they are and build from their existing strengths. Jenny spent many years as a case manager and has worked in acute care, residential settings, and intensive outpatient programs.
Background and approach
That background shapes how she looks at a person’s life outside sessions as part of recovery and growth. She values practical strategies that fit into daily routines rather than abstract theory. Her approach blends client-centered work with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused techniques.
She also draws on Motivational Interviewing and mindfulness practices to help people find motivation and calm in stressful moments. Sessions focus on concrete skills, small goals, and steady progress that people can notice week to week. Jenny is experienced supporting people with trauma, grief, parenting strain, ADHD, chronic pain and illness, and mood disorders.
She also has experience with substance use challenges and domestic violence survivors. She aims to work without judgment and to respect each person’s background and identity. People who connect best with Jenny tend to want clear steps and warm support.
She listens first, then helps create short-term plans that make life feel more manageable. Her goal is to help clients build tools they can use long after therapy ends.
How her approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy places the person’s goals and experience at the center of sessions. The therapist listens closely, asks questions, and follows the client’s lead to shape each session. This approach helps when someone wants to feel heard and build on their own strengths. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches straightforward skills to change patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, panic, and obsessive worries and gives clear tools to practice between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work together with the client to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That process is collaborative, with adjustments made as progress is reviewed and life changes occur.
Online formats like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can use less bandwidth and work well for a shorter check-in. Text or live chat can be used for brief reflections, ongoing check-ins, or when someone wants to write out thoughts instead of speaking. These options offer flexibility in timing and pace while keeping therapy consistent with goals and routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Kansas
- Languages
- English
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