About Jodi
Jodi Fortner is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with twelve years of experience helping people understand how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. She focuses on practical steps people can take to feel steadier when life gets overwhelming. Jodi keeps sessions straightforward and goal-focused so progress feels real and usable.
Her work often centers on stress and anxiety. She also supports people facing grief, low self-esteem, depression, trauma and abuse, and major life changes.
Background and approach
Jodi pays special attention to young adult issues and building self-love. In sessions she blends cognitive behavioral ideas with solution-focused and trauma-aware methods. That means she helps people notice unhelpful thinking, test different responses, and build small routines that make daily life easier.
She also helps process upsetting experiences so strong reactions become easier to manage. Jodi aims for clear tools and short-term strategies when those fit a person’s goals. She will also work on deeper patterns when that is needed.
Conversations are practical and paced to match each person’s needs. People who prefer a direct, collaborative approach often do well with her. She balances empathy with concrete steps, so people leave sessions with something to try between appointments.
Jodi practices in Missouri and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Therapeutic approaches online and how they help
Jodi uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot patterns in their thinking and try different responses. CBT often helps with anxiety, depression, and daily stress by turning insights into small, testable changes. Solution-Focused Therapy is another part of her work and it centers on immediate goals and practical steps. This approach is useful when someone wants brief, focused progress and concrete next steps. Trauma-Focused Therapy provides ways to process difficult experiences and reduce intense reactions, with methods aimed at making everyday emotions easier to manage.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jodi collaborates with each person to decide what to try first based on their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they can mix short-term skill-building with deeper processing as needed so the plan fits the person rather than following one set method.
Online therapy makes these approaches accessible in flexible ways. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skill practice and deeper work. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or be easier when bandwidth is low. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or use brief check-ins when a full session is not needed. These options help people keep therapy consistent around busy lives.
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- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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