Jennifer Hayden
Experienced counselor focused on practical help
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed in
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jennifer
Jennifer Hayden is a licensed professional counselor with 22 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addictions, and other life challenges. Her tone is direct and nonjudgmental, aimed at people who need clear steps and steady support.
Sessions emphasize listening, planning, and building skills you can use between meetings. Jennifer combines talk-based work with evidence-based techniques. She uses cognitive behavioral therapy to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Background and approach
She also offers eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, a method that can help when painful memories keep returning. In the room, she leans on client-centered therapy ideas. That means she meets each person where they are and helps them set goals that matter.
Mindfulness practices are added when they help calm the body and focus attention. Her background includes years of clinical practice in Colorado and training in EMDR protocols for trauma and addiction-related issues. Jennifer frames some concerns through a medical perspective while also addressing emotional, social, and practical needs.
She explains options clearly and helps people weigh what might work for them. Overall, the approach is collaborative and straightforward. The therapist aims to reduce stigma, strengthen coping, and support realistic steps toward change.
People can expect a mix of listening, skill-building, and targeted interventions based on their needs.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. The therapist follows the client's pace, reflects concerns, and helps people set their own goals. This approach is useful when someone needs a steady, nonjudgmental place to work through feelings.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical steps to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a targeted method for reducing the intensity of distressing memories and reactions when trauma is involved.
Choosing the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and preferences and then try methods that seem likely to help. That decision is collaborative and can be adjusted over time based on what is working.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives, maintain continuity, and use the approach that matches a person's needs regardless of location.
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.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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