Jennifer Stephens
Experienced counselor for practical change
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed in
- Alabama, Nevada, Oregon
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jennifer
Jennifer Stephens is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 22 years of clinical experience. She uses practical, evidence-based approaches to help people manage anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and problems with self-esteem. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental, focused on clear steps people can try between sessions.
She combines acceptance and commitment work with cognitive behavioral tools to address difficult thoughts and unhelpful behaviors. Jennifer also draws on client-centered listening to help people feel heard.
Background and approach
Sessions often include short, teachable skills that clients can practice at home. Her background includes long experience supporting people through grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, and stress from life transitions. She also works with mood concerns such as bipolar symptoms and disruptive mood patterns, and with substance use and co-occurring issues.
Additional focuses include attachment and family of origin matters, communication and commitment problems, and gender dysphoria. Jennifer offers multiple session formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. She works in Alabama and conducts sessions in English.
Licensing information is AL LPC LPC03453 and OR LPC C9474. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to therapist availability. The subscription used for sessions can be canceled at any time.
How Jennifer’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and focus on actions that match their values. It can support clients coping with anxiety, depression, relapse prevention, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches specific skills to change them, which is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and substance-related problems. Client-Centered Therapy prioritizes listening and empathy so people feel understood before trying new coping strategies.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Jennifer works with clients to choose and adjust methods based on their goals and what feels most useful. This is a collaborative effort that may use more than one approach over time to match changing needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. These options let people fit care into busy days, continue work during life transitions, and use short skill-focused check-ins between longer sessions. The range of formats supports different styles of communication and scheduling needs.
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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Alabama, Nevada, Oregon, Texas
- Languages
- English
Next step
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