Jenna Acker
Practical, evidence-based help for everyday struggles
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed in
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jenna
Jenna Acker is a licensed clinical social worker who uses evidence-based methods to help people manage anxiety, stress, addiction, and the strains that come with life changes. She writes and speaks plainly, so conversations focus on what matters day to day. Jenna aims to make therapy practical and relevant rather than overwhelming.
Her work covers eating and body image concerns, mood-related challenges, obsessive thoughts, and struggles tied to substance use.
Background and approach
She also addresses issues that often overlap, such as co-morbid conditions and the emotional fallout from domestic violence. Jenna brings three years of professional experience as a Wisconsin LCSW (licensed clinical social worker) to each session. Sessions are collaborative and centered on each person’s strengths.
Jenna helps clients identify small, useful steps for coping and change. She avoids jargon and keeps plans straightforward so people can try new strategies between meetings. Jenna practices with an inclusive mindset and pays attention to how discrimination and gendered experiences affect wellbeing.
She encourages open conversation about identity and how it shows up in everyday life. Practical concerns are part of the work. Jenna helps people sort through relationship stress, habits that cause harm, grief from transitions, and the anxiety that makes daily tasks harder.
The focus is on building resilience and clearer thinking over time.
Practical therapy methods delivered online
Jenna draws on proven, evidence-based techniques that focus on changing thoughts and building new habits. One approach helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with clearer, more balanced thoughts to reduce anxiety and mood symptoms. Another approach emphasizes gradual behavior change, breaking larger goals into small steps to address avoidance, addictive habits, or eating-related struggles.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Jenna collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level, and she adjusts plans as progress is made. This makes therapy feel like a team effort rather than a one-size-fits-all program.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to use the format that feels most helpful for talking through stressors, practicing skills, and checking in between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Intellectual disability
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point