Jennifer Enders
Calm, practical therapy for stressful times
- Credentials
- LPC, LMHC
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed in
- Arizona, Iowa
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jennifer
Jennifer Enders is a licensed therapist who uses a person-centered, collaborative approach to help people through hard seasons. She is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor and an LMHC - Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 23 years of experience. Jennifer aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk frankly about stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, grief, and other concerns.
She listens for patterns that keep people stuck and helps them test new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical skills, clearer self-understanding, and small changes that add up over time. Jennifer blends evidence-based tools with attention to each person’s story. Her training includes cognitive behavioral methods to challenge unhelpful thinking and dialectical behavior strategies to manage intense emotions.
She also draws on attachment-based ideas to notice how past relationships shape current reactions, and mindfulness practices to build present-moment awareness. Jennifer has helped people dealing with compassion fatigue, addiction concerns, sleep and eating issues, career stress, and identity questions. She also works with topics like adoption and foster care, aging issues, chronic illness, codependency, and intimacy-related concerns.
Licensed in Arizona (AZ LPC LPC-13230) and Iowa (IA LMHC 132800), she offers sessions in English. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, using a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. In online sessions this looks like noticing how connection and trust affect your reactions and trying small changes to feel safer in relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and replaces them with clearer, more useful thinking. It is practical for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating issues, and parenting-related stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jennifer collaborates with each person to figure out which methods fit best for their goals and preferences. She mixes approaches when needed and adjusts the plan as progress and needs evolve.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home, while phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging provide extra flexibility. These options can make it easier to fit sessions into demanding schedules, maintain continuity during life transitions, and access help without long commutes.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Arizona, Iowa
- Languages
- English
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