Dr. Jenna Lebersfeld
Compassionate, practical support for families
- Credentials
- IL Psychologist 071.010820
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jenna
Dr. Jenna Lebersfeld is a licensed psychologist in Illinois who focuses on family and parenting concerns along with related issues like anxiety, stress, and depression. She helps people navigate parenting challenges, relationship tensions within families, sleep problems, anger, and self-esteem struggles.
Her work also addresses ADHD and LGBT-related concerns, as well as coaching for practical life changes. She brings eight years of clinical experience to sessions and aims for a warm, collaborative tone.
Background and approach
Dr. Lebersfeld treats each person as the expert on their life and partners with them to find workable strategies. Her style is straightforward and supportive, with an emphasis on practical steps people can try between sessions.
Her methods draw on cognitive behavioral approaches and acceptance-based strategies, paired with mindfulness practices and brief skills coaching. In therapy she helps people notice unhelpful thinking, practice new habits, and try specific tools to reduce stress and improve family interactions. Sessions often include problem-solving, small experiments, and communication practice.
Dr. Lebersfeld also has experience with neurodiversity-related concerns, including autism and ADHD, and with adoption and foster care issues. Additional focus areas have included caregiver stress, communication problems, gender dysphoria, OCD symptoms, phobias, and traumatic brain injury.
She uses this breadth to tailor practical plans to each person’s situation. Sessions are available through several online formats and are scheduled through the directory process. Dr.
Lebersfeld uses her clinical experience to help people set realistic goals and build skills that fit their daily lives.
Evidence-based approaches for online family and parenting work
Dr. Lebersfeld commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques, which focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. These tools help with anxiety, stress, sleep problems, and managing strong emotions like anger.She also draws on acceptance-based strategies that teach people to notice difficult feelings without getting stuck in them and to commit to values-driven action. That approach can be useful for depression, parental stress, and improving family interactions.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try a few techniques, and adjust based on what feels most helpful. Clients and the therapist work together to choose methods that fit daily life and parenting demands.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. These options let people fit sessions around work, childcare, and other routines, and make follow-up between sessions easier with short messages or chat check-ins. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach skills, coach through parenting moments, and track progress over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
Next step
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