Jennifer Fishman
Practical counseling rooted in life experience
- Credentials
- LPC, LCPC
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed in
- Idaho, Oregon
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jennifer
Jennifer Fishman is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor - LCPC practicing in Oregon. She brings 17 years of counseling experience and a background as an adult educator to her work. Her training includes multiple therapeutic approaches and an emphasis on helping people notice strengths they may have missed.
She aims for sessions that feel practical and down to earth. Conversations focus on clear steps and skills parents and individuals can try between visits.
Background and approach
Jennifer explains techniques plainly so people can use them on their own when challenges arise. Her approach adapts to each person’s needs. She mixes methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT and Dialectical Behavior Therapy - DBT with client-centered listening.
Sessions often include teaching simple tools for stress, anxiety, mood, and parenting concerns. Jennifer’s work draws on her years teaching adults in colleges and business schools. That experience shapes how she explains ideas and coaches toward real-life goals, including career decisions and coping with life changes.
People who choose her can expect a collaborative tone. She helps clients uncover practical options and build a personal set of strategies for managing pain, loss, relationship strain, or addictive patterns. The focus stays on useful change rather than labels or jargon.
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful relationship that helps people feel heard and understood; this approach supports self-exploration and is useful when someone needs clear, compassionate guidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT is about noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes; it often helps with anxiety, depression, stress, and practical problem solving. Dialectical Behavior Therapy - DBT teaches concrete skills for managing emotions and improving coping during intense moments and can be helpful for strong mood swings or chronic stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That decision happens together and can shift over time as needs change.
Online therapy with Jennifer offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to use tools in day-to-day life. Licensed professionals can guide skills practice during sessions and help translate those skills into home and parenting routines, making therapy practical and easier to use between meetings.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Idaho, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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