Jenny Ortega
Calm practical therapy for stressful times
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jenny
Jenny Ortega is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Florida who uses a practical, client-focused style. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to meet people where they are. Her work often centers on stress, anxiety, depression, parenting, and grief.
She also supports people facing trauma, LGBT issues, mood disorders such as bipolar, and intimacy-related concerns. Jenny trained for advanced clinical practice with a Master of Social Work from Saint Leo University.
Background and approach
She has four years of professional experience and has worked with a range of people across different settings. Her background includes supporting older adults, children and adolescents on the autism spectrum, and survivors of physical and sexual abuse. In sessions she blends several practical approaches.
She draws from Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT, Dialectical Behavior Therapy - DBT, Mindfulness techniques, and Motivational Interviewing. Those methods shape conversations and skills practice in ways that fit each person’s needs and goals. She often focuses on teaching concrete coping strategies for stress, sleep problems, and emotional regulation.
She also helps people navigate relationship and family concerns, parenting challenges, and life transitions. Sessions can include short-term goal work and longer-term support based on what the client wants. Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that works with the therapist’s availability.
Therapeutic approaches for online family and parenting support
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person without judgment. It helps people feel heard and supports parents and caregivers to identify what matters most to them and their children.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It teaches straightforward tools to manage anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress related to parenting and daily life.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication. These skills can be useful for families handling strong emotions, mood swings, or conflict.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person or parent to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That could mean focusing on skills practice, supporting one set of family routines, or combining approaches over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexible access. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules, follow up on skill practice between meetings, and stay connected from home or on the go.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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