Jennifer McCann
Compassionate, practical therapy for everyday struggles
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed in
- Maine
- Languages
- English, American Sign Language
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jennifer
Jennifer McCann is an LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) practicing in Maine. She focuses on common family and parenting concerns such as stress, communication problems, grief, and coping with life changes. She also helps with anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, substance concerns, intimacy issues, and compassion fatigue.
Jennifer offers services in English and American Sign Language for people who use ASL. Jennifer brings 22 years of clinical experience to her work.
Background and approach
She centers sessions on the person in front of her and looks for practical ways to reduce daily stress and improve functioning. She uses a mix of approaches so sessions can match what a person needs in the moment. Her style is warm and straightforward.
She makes space for laughter, tears, and anger, and treats difficult feelings as part of change. Sessions aim to identify strengths and build small, doable steps toward better communication and coping. Jennifer commonly integrates client-centered methods with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices.
She also uses solution-focused and trauma-informed tools when they fit a person’s goals. The plan of care is created collaboratively and adjusted over time. Jennifer has experience working with Deaf, hard of hearing, and DeafBlind people, and with adults who have intellectual and developmental disabilities.
She emphasizes clear communication and adapts her approach to meet different access needs.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the individual’s strengths and priorities. The therapist listens closely, reflects what is said, and helps clients set goals that feel achievable. This approach helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort through parenting stress or relationship communication.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical skills like noticing unhelpful thinking patterns and trying new behaviors. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and managing daily stressors that affect family life.
Mindfulness therapy brings simple attention skills into everyday routines. It teaches short exercises to reduce reactivity and improve focus, which can help with overwhelm and emotional regulation during parenting challenges.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and recommend which methods to try first. That plan is revisited over time so techniques are adjusted to what actually helps.
Online sessions can be done by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules and communication needs. These options make it easier to meet from home, coordinate around caregiving, or use American Sign Language when preferred. The flexible formats let people keep progress going even when life is busy.
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.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English, American Sign Language
Next step
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