Jennifer Maguire
Compassionate, practical support for family and parenting needs
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jennifer
Jennifer Maguire is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey with 25 years of experience in counseling. She uses a warm, interactive style and focuses on listening first so people feel understood. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at helping parents and individuals manage stress, anxiety, grief, relationship concerns, and parenting challenges.
She draws on several proven methods, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and learn skills for managing strong emotions.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and client-centered ideas also shape her work, so the person’s values and choices guide the plan. Sessions are collaborative and focused on clear steps rather than jargon. Jennifer has worked across many life challenges over her career.
She supports people dealing with addiction, trauma and abuse, depression, bipolar disorder, and caregiving stress. Additional areas she addresses include attachment issues, adoption and foster care concerns, blended family problems, chronic illness, and body image struggles. Her style emphasizes strengths and problem solving.
She helps people identify what is working, set reachable goals, and practice new skills between sessions. Therapy aims to reduce distress and increase the ability to cope with life changes. Jennifer communicates in English and provides sessions through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Her practice uses a subscription-based model that can be canceled at any time, with pricing that varies by location and therapist availability.
Online approaches that focus on values, skills, and relationships
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to live with hard feelings. It can be useful for stress, anxiety, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT helps identify unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that drive anxiety, depression, and many daily struggles. It often includes practical exercises and homework. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT teaches specific skills in mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness to manage strong emotions and improve relationships.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made, keeping the process collaborative and goal-focused.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people meet face-to-face from home, while phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging provide shorter or more frequent contacts when needed. These options make it easier to fit therapy around busy family schedules, allow skill practice in real time, and support continued progress between in-person visits.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- 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
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point