About Jennifer
Jennifer Pariera is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) who focuses on anxiety and related concerns. She brings 11 years of direct practice experience and aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for people feeling overwhelmed. Her style is warm and welcoming, with an emphasis on working together to find useful steps that fit everyday life.
Jennifer often helps people cope with stress, depression, panic symptoms, and relationship concerns.
Background and approach
She also supports those dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, addiction, and identity concerns including LGBT issues. Her work includes attention to caregiver strain, aging and geriatric issues, and mood disorders such as bipolar presentations. In sessions she favors clear tools over long lectures.
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try small experiments that can change daily functioning. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas and client-centered listening shape how she sets goals and addresses values. Jennifer has experience working with veterans and armed forces issues and with people navigating major life transitions.
She uses motivational interviewing and narrative approaches when people want to clarify their story or find motivation for change. The focus is on practical steps people can use between sessions. People meet Jennifer in Washington.
Sessions are offered in English and take place through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. She supports clients who want a collaborative, down-to-earth approach to managing anxiety and life stressors.
Therapeutic approaches for online anxiety care
Jennifer often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify thought and behavior patterns that keep anxiety going and then test new ways of responding. CBT offers concrete exercises that can reduce panic symptoms, social anxiety, and mood-related challenges.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed actions even when uncomfortable feelings are present. ACT is useful for people who want to move forward despite ongoing worry or uncertainty. Client-centered principles shape sessions as well, with an emphasis on listening, empathy, and tailoring goals to each person’s needs.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and daily life. That may mean mixing CBT skills, ACT exercises, mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing during the course of care.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and a fuller conversation, phone can work well when bandwidth is low, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make therapy easier to fit into work, caregiving, and busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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