Jennifer Rochel
Practical therapy for parents and families
- Credentials
- LCSW, LICSW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Louisiana, District of Columbia, Arkansas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jennifer
Jennifer Rochel is a licensed clinical social worker who uses practical, problem-focused therapy to help families and parents manage life’s hard moments. She draws on approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, and client-centered work to create clear steps forward. Her style is straightforward and calm, aimed at helping people reduce stress, manage mood, and improve family interactions.
She has twenty years of experience in social work and has supported people facing depression, anxiety, trauma, and mood disorders.
Background and approach
Much of her background includes work with children and families in the child protection system, schools, and independent practice. That experience informs how she sees family patterns and the real-world pressures parents face. In sessions she listens first and then helps set small, doable goals.
Therapy can include mindfulness skills, values-based action from ACT, and practical cognitive strategies to change unhelpful thoughts. Solution-focused methods are used when clients want fast, step-by-step changes for specific problems. Jennifer pays attention to cultural and individual differences and tailors the plan to each person’s life.
She emphasizes a caring working relationship as the foundation for change. Her aim is to help parents and family members build routines and skills that make daily life more manageable. If someone is ready to begin, she guides them through choosing the next steps and scheduling sessions that fit their life.
Sessions are offered in English and are provided from Louisiana.
Therapy approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people get clearer about their values and take small steps toward what matters. It pairs well with worries about purpose, parenting choices, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and homework. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and daily stress that interferes with family life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jennifer collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. Together they try techniques, track what helps, and adjust the plan to match the family’s priorities and schedule.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexible ways to connect. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around childcare, work, and other obligations. They also allow people in Louisiana to access consistent care without extra travel, so making steady progress is more practical for busy parents and families.
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.
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
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, District of Columbia, Arkansas
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Jennifer
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