About Jena
Jena Ourso is a licensed clinical social worker in Louisiana with 11 years of experience. Jena helps people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, and grief. They also support people facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, ADHD, and concerns related to sexual identity or kink.
Jena aims to create a respectful, sensitive space and works collaboratively toward practical goals. Jena uses straightforward conversation and concrete strategies in sessions. Expect help building skills to manage strong emotions, reduce risky coping, and improve communication.
Background and approach
Jena adapts each plan to a person’s needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all approach. Their background includes long-term work with mood disorders, trauma and substance use. That experience informs how they shape sessions for safety, pacing, and skill practice.
Jena also attends to issues like attachment, adoption and foster care, and chronic illness when those topics come up. Therapy blends evidence-based techniques with client-centered support. Jena will explain techniques and try different options until something fits.
Sessions focus on what a person wants to change and on small steps that can be practiced between meetings. Jena speaks English and provides services from Louisiana. They encourage people to take the first step and offer a mix of session formats to fit different schedules and needs.
Approaches that translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small actions that move a life forward, which can be practiced between sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connections affect current relationships and helps people change patterns in how they relate to others. This can reduce repeated conflicts and improve trust. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s goals and experience, with the therapist offering nonjudgmental listening and support to help clients find their own solutions.Finding the right approach is often part of the first few sessions. The therapist will work together with the client to identify which methods fit their goals and preferences. That may mean mixing techniques or trying different tools until a good match emerges.
Online therapy lets people use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what works best for their schedule. Video sessions allow for richer conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter exchanges, coaching-style support, or when someone prefers text. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to keep momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English