Jennafer Matthews
Practical, client-centered care for everyday challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed in
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jennafer
Jennafer Matthews is a Licensed Professional Counselor who brings 11 years of clinical experience to her practice in Wisconsin. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, parenting challenges, ADHD, and related concerns. Jennafer aims to provide a calm, respectful setting where clients can talk through what matters most and build practical skills.
She uses clear, straightforward language and keeps sessions focused on what a person needs right now.
Background and approach
Jennafer follows a client-centered way of working. That means she treats the client as the expert on their life and asks questions that help uncover strengths and values. She also pulls in practical tools from cognitive behavioral approaches when it can help change unhelpful thoughts and patterns.
Mindfulness skills are part of her toolbox. She teaches simple, usable practices to reduce reactivity and increase awareness during stressful moments. Solution-focused techniques help set small, achievable steps when a person wants faster, goal-oriented change.
Her style is warm and collaborative. Jennafer aims to make the therapy room feel straightforward and honest, with some humor when it fits. Sessions move at the client’s pace while keeping clear goals in sight.
She offers a mix of short-term strategies and longer-term work depending on needs. Jennafer emphasizes skills people can use between sessions to manage mood, relationships, and day-to-day stressors. The focus is on practical change rather than labels.
Practical approaches for online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s unique situation. The therapist treats the client as the expert and offers support that reflects the client’s values and goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches step-by-step skills to reduce unhelpful patterns and manage symptoms like anxiety or low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jennafer will work together with the client to choose methods that fit the person’s needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process helps shape whether sessions focus more on skills, insight, or short-term problem solving.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules and to check in between appointments. The variety of formats supports different needs - from longer video conversations to brief text check-ins when a quick touchpoint helps most.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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