Jennifer Woodruff, LCSW, LICSW - Therapist in Tennessee

About Jennifer

Jennifer Woodruff is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with eight years of professional experience. She holds LCSW and LICSW credentials and provides therapy from Tennessee. Her background includes time working in community mental health settings and earlier careers in elementary education and library services.

Jennifer keeps sessions straightforward and practical. She listens first and helps clients set clear goals. She uses approaches like client-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques to address everyday problems such as stress, anxiety, and low mood.

Background and approach

Parents often come to her for help with parenting challenges, blended family concerns, and family relationship stress. She also works with people facing grief, life changes, addiction, trauma, and compassion fatigue. Jennifer applies motivational interviewing and solution-focused steps to help people find momentum and small, manageable changes.

In sessions she focuses on what can be changed now. She helps identify patterns and builds simple strategies to manage emotions and behavior. She favors concrete tools people can use between sessions rather than heavy theory.

Her style is down-to-earth and respectful of each person’s choices. She aims to make therapy feel like a practical collaboration. People who want clear steps and a calm, steady guide will find her approach easy to follow.

Approaches and what online therapy looks like

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. It helps people feel heard and supports them as they make their own choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide whether client-centered support, CBT, or motivational and solution-focused steps fit best, and they adjust the plan as progress is made.

Online therapy here is offered by licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules or to connect from home. The variety of formats lets people use real-time conversations or short messages between sessions depending on what feels most useful.

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.

Motivational Interviewing

A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does she address?

She works with stress, anxiety, depression, parenting struggles, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, relationship and family issues, anger, self-esteem, career concerns, bipolar symptoms, and compassion fatigue. She also focuses on blended family issues, codependency, control issues, divorce and separation, domestic violence, life purpose, and obsessive-compulsive concerns.

What is her therapy style like?

Her style is practical and collaborative. She listens first, helps set clear goals, and uses straightforward strategies to address day-to-day problems.

How much experience does she have?

She has eight years working as a social worker, including roles in community mental health settings and earlier work as an elementary teacher and librarian.

What credentials and location does she hold?

She holds LCSW and LICSW credentials with license details TN LCSW 7407 and DC LICSW LC200002255. She practices from Tennessee.

Which languages are supported and are international clients possible?

Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.

What session formats are available?

Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different preferences.

How is cost handled?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin therapy with her?

Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.

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Experience: 8 years
Licensed: Tennessee, Montana, Rhode Island, New Jersey, District of Columbia
Languages: English

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