Jennifer Kirkpatrick
Calm, practical help for parents and partners
- Credentials
- LPC, LPCC
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan, Ohio
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jennifer
Jennifer Kirkpatrick is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and parenting challenges. She is skilled at guiding those coping with relationship struggles, grief, self-esteem concerns, and issues around intimacy. Jennifer also supports people dealing with sleep or eating problems, anger, and major life changes.
Jennifer holds LPC and LPCC credentials and practices in Ohio. She uses straightforward, practical techniques in sessions. Jennifer listens without judgment and works to build trust so clients feel comfortable sharing.
Background and approach
She leans on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, among other methods, to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns. Jennifer adapts plans to each person’s needs and goals. That can mean short-term goal work or a longer plan to address deeper patterns.
She often combines client-centered conversation with skills training and solution-focused steps to make progress between sessions. Over seven years of practice have included work with trauma, anxiety, mood disorders, and relationship concerns. Jennifer brings training in several evidence-informed approaches and applies them in ways clients can use in daily life.
Sessions may include coaching-style guidance when helpful. The focus is on practical steps, steady support, and helping clients regain a clearer sense of control and direction.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating a respectful, listening space where the client leads the discussion while the therapist reflects and supports. This approach helps people feel heard and clarify what matters most to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical steps to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating problems, and stress-related issues because it gives concrete tools to practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then tailor techniques from these approaches to fit those needs. That means methods can shift as progress is made or new concerns emerge.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy family schedule or to continue care during life changes. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach skills, check progress, and provide support between meetings, which helps keep therapy practical and accessible.
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.
Gottman Method
A research-based framework for couples, focused on how partners argue, repair, and stay connected. Practical and structured, with exercises to try between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Ohio
- Languages
- English
Next step
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