Jennifer Wickham
Supportive family and parenting counselor
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed in
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jennifer
Jennifer Wickham is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Wisconsin who focuses on family and parenting concerns along with stress, anxiety, trauma, and mood struggles. She brings 26 years of experience supporting parents, infants, children, adolescents, young adults, and families. Her approach is warm and practical, aimed at helping families find workable steps forward.
Sessions are straightforward and conversational. She listens first, then helps identify small, manageable changes. Jennifer emphasizes everyday strategies parents can use with children and teens, and tools individuals can use to handle anxiety, anger, and grief.
Background and approach
Her training includes a master’s degree in mental health counseling from the University of Wisconsin–Stout and additional specialization in infant, early childhood, and family mental health from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is also trained in EMDR, dialectical behavior therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and reflective practices such as yoga and meditation.
Jennifer’s background includes work in inpatient adolescent residential treatment and community mental health clinics. She consults with the Wisconsin Association for Infant Mental Health and draws on that experience when working with parents of young children. Outside of work she practices what she teaches by doing yoga, training for relay races, playing viola, and crafting.
She frames therapy as a collaborative effort and focuses on clients’ strengths while helping them take small intentional steps toward change.
Approaches that translate to online family care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on the relationship patterns between caregivers and children. It looks at how early connections shape reactions and helps caregivers practice new ways of responding to build trust and safety within the family.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and habits and replace them with more useful ones. It is practical and skill-based, which works well for concerns like anxiety, depression, and behavioral challenges.
Jennifer treats choosing an approach as a collaborative step. She will listen to the family or individual concerns, talk through options, and tailor methods to fit needs and goals. That way the plan reflects what will feel most useful and realistic for daily life.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy families and individuals. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations, phone sessions offer a simple option when screens aren’t convenient, and live chat or text messaging can keep momentum between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into school schedules, work shifts, or caregiving routines while keeping the focus on practical skills families can use at home.
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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
Next step
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