Jennifer Hoffman
Practical, compassionate support for parents and families
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jennifer
Jennifer Hoffman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 19 years of practice in Illinois. She has spent her career working with children and families and supporting people through parenting and family concerns. She draws on long experience to offer steady, practical help when things feel overwhelming.
Many parents come with questions about behavior, anger, ADHD, or trauma-related issues and she focuses on clear steps to address them. Her style is compassionate and straightforward.
Background and approach
She centers conversations on each family's strengths and what matters most to them. Jennifer uses a client-centered stance that helps people name goals and build skills that fit their daily lives. That often means short-term, concrete strategies alongside deeper work when needed.
She blends solution-focused ideas and trauma-informed work with exercises people can try between sessions. Those could include simple mindfulness practices, communication tools, and plans for managing difficult moments. Jennifer adjusts pace and techniques to match each person’s needs and preferences.
Jennifer values respect, sensitivity, and empowerment in therapy. She aims to help parents feel more confident in handling caregiving challenges and family stress. She also offers support for anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strains, and other concerns that affect family life.
Sessions are conducted in English and take place through online formats. The focus is on helping families and individuals find practical steps forward and build skills they can use at home.
Online approaches for family and trauma-focused care
Client-Centered Therapy is about listening closely and shaping treatment around what matters to the family. It helps people feel heard and guides decisions based on their values and goals. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple practices to notice thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations so parents and children can respond more calmly to stress. It often helps with anxiety, anger, and overwhelming moments.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Jennifer will collaborate with each person or family to decide which methods fit their situation and goals. She combines approaches when useful and adjusts plans as progress is made.
Online sessions can include video calls, phone conversations, live chat, or ongoing text-based messaging. This range gives flexibility for busy families, allows follow-up between sessions, and makes it easier to fit therapy into daily life. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach skills, coach through parenting moments, and check in on progress without requiring in-person visits.
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.
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.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
Next step
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