About Terry
Terry Jensen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with three decades of practice in New Jersey. She uses straightforward, practical methods to help people cope with stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, and other life changes. Terry speaks plainly and focuses on what someone can do now to feel steadier and clearer.
Her work blends behavioral techniques with psychodynamic ideas to look at how past events influence present choices. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral tools, mindfulness, and client-centered listening to set small, workable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often emphasize noticing thoughts and feelings, testing new behaviors, and building skills for daily life. Terry has experience across health care, foster care, and supporting people connected to caregiving and end-of-life concerns. That background informs how she helps people with grief, caregiver stress, aging issues, and serious medical challenges.
She also addresses trauma, abuse, and post-traumatic stress with care and persistence. In sessions she aims to make people feel respected and heard. Work is collaborative - she helps clients name priorities, try strategies, and track what changes.
Many clients focus on anxiety, depression, relationship problems, parenting concerns, and rebuilding self-esteem. Practical steps are a hallmark of her approach. Terry offers tools for managing strong emotions, improving communication, and adjusting to major life transitions.
She invites people who are ready to do the hard work of change to take steady, supported steps toward their goals.
Therapeutic approaches over video, phone, and chat
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without letting them take over, then choose actions that line up with what matters most. It can be helpful for anxiety, stress, and making value-driven changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches concrete techniques for changing unhelpful patterns. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and coping skills. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist listens and mirrors concerns so the person can find their own path forward.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Terry will work together with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That collaboration allows adjustments over time so the work stays relevant and useful.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which allow flexible scheduling and different styles of interaction. Video calls let people converse face to face, phone sessions work well when less bandwidth is available, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and ongoing messaging can help track progress between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work during transitions or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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