Jennifer Noonan
Support for stress and addiction recovery
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed in
- Indiana, Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jennifer
Jennifer Noonan is a licensed clinical social worker with 22 years of professional experience. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, mood challenges, addiction, trauma, and related concerns. Her approach begins with creating a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can say what they’re feeling.
She encourages small, practical steps so progress feels manageable. Jennifer aims to make sessions straightforward and focused. She listens closely to what matters most and helps clients set clear, realistic goals.
Background and approach
Common topics she addresses include depressive symptoms, bipolar mood shifts, panic and social anxiety, substance use, grief, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. Her practice includes work on codependency, guilt and shame, and recovery from sexual assault or abuse. She also supports people facing compassion fatigue and career-related stress.
Jennifer brings two decades of hands-on experience to each session and draws on approaches shown to help with trauma, anxiety, and addiction. Sessions use familiar formats such as video calls, phone, live chat, or messaging to fit different schedules. She provides care from Indiana and works in English.
The first step is often a brief conversation to clarify goals and plan next steps. Jennifer recognizes that starting therapy can feel difficult. She emphasizes respect, steadiness, and practical problem solving so people can move forward at their own pace.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Jennifer uses evidence-based techniques that focus on clear skills and real-life changes. One common approach emphasizes practical coping strategies for anxiety and panic, teaching breathing, grounding, and stepwise exposure to feared situations to reduce avoidance. Another approach focuses on addressing trauma and related symptoms through structured processing and stabilization techniques to help people manage difficult memories and reactions.Choosing the right method is part of the process. The therapist works with each person to figure out which approaches fit their situation, goals, and comfort level. That collaborative decision means methods can be adjusted as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to stay connected when in-person visits are hard to arrange. Many people find the flexibility helps them keep momentum between appointments while working on the goals agreed upon with their therapist.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Indiana, Illinois
- Languages
- English
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