Jennifer 'Jenna' Nevins
Calm, practical support for stressed parents
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jennifer
Jennifer 'Jenna' Nevins is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in Iowa who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and parenting strains. She also supports those dealing with depression, low self-esteem, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Jenna uses a calm, person-centered way of working that puts the relationship first and meets people where they are.
Jenna focuses on building trust so people can talk openly about what’s hard. She listens for patterns in relationships and attachment, and uses that understanding to guide practical steps forward.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and down-to-earth rather than strictly clinical. Her toolbox includes cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. These methods are used alongside attachment-based and client-centered practices to match each person’s needs.
Jenna aims to make techniques feel relevant to everyday life instead of abstract exercises. She has five years of experience as an LMHC and has worked with concerns like adoption and foster care, caregiving stress, chronic illness, body image, and dissociation. That background informs how she helps people connect their symptoms to life events and relationships.
Jenna offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions are scheduled via a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps pair a person with her based on needs and preferences.
Approach-driven care delivered online
Attachment-based work looks at how early connections shape current relationships and helps people notice patterns that show up in parenting, partnerships, or self-view. It’s useful for those wanting to understand why they react a certain way and to build more stable connection styles.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers clear strategies to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, which can reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms and improve daily functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then try techniques that fit those needs. That collaborative process means methods may be blended and adjusted over time to see what works best.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible for busy lives. These options let people connect from home, fit sessions around caregiving or work, and continue progress when in-person visits are hard to arrange. The variety of formats lets the client and therapist decide which way of meeting supports the work most effectively.
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.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
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