Jennifer Wickersham
Family-focused counselor for parents and families
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed in
- Missouri, West Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jennifer
Jennifer Wickersham is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside many related issues. She works with children, adolescents, adults, and families to address stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and parenting challenges. Her style is straightforward and supportive, aimed at practical steps that help families function more smoothly day to day.
Jenn uses a person-centered stance that emphasizes a real, respectful therapeutic relationship.
Background and approach
She listens to what matters most and helps set clear, achievable goals. Sessions often focus on understanding how thoughts and feelings shape behavior and on learning specific coping skills. Her background includes more than 21 years of clinical work and experience with clinical assessments to guide treatment decisions.
She relies on methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused work when those fit the need. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are also part of her toolkit for promoting change. In sessions, Jenn helps families and individuals identify patterns that get in the way and tries simple, concrete strategies for change.
She works toward solutions that respect family dynamics and developmental stages. Parents can expect practical guidance for improving communication, managing behavior, and easing transitions. Telehealth options are available in multiple formats, and Jenn supports adapting interventions to the online setting when appropriate.
She emphasizes collaboration - deciding together which approaches and goals make the most sense for each family.
Therapeutic approaches and online support for families
Jennifer often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy in her work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people see how thoughts influence feelings and actions and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns, which can be useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and parenting stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on understanding emotions and improving how family members connect, which can help with relationship and intimacy-related issues.She also brings a person-centered stance that keeps the client's goals first. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process - she will talk with the family or individual about their concerns, try approaches that fit, and adjust methods as progress is made. Decisions about techniques and goals are made together based on needs and preferences.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. These options let busy parents and families fit sessions into their schedules, continue work during life changes, and use short check-ins or longer conversations as needed. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and tools to each format so therapy can stay focused and practical even 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.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, West Virginia
- Languages
- English
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