About Jenise
Jenise Aydell-Hontiveros meets people where they are and helps them make sense of hard moments. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and she draws on 17 years of experience supporting adults through anxiety, depression, grief, family stress, and life changes. Her approach aims to be practical and respectful of each persons pace.
Jenise keeps sessions focused and straightforward. She listens first, then works with clients to set clear goals.
Background and approach
She uses client-centered methods alongside cognitive tools and mindfulness to help people manage intense emotions and day-to-day stress. Conversations often include skill practice and short, doable steps to try between sessions. Her background includes a masters in social work and long experience in Louisiana mental health settings since 2007.
That practice shaped an emphasis on calm, nonjudgmental support and problem-solving that fits many kinds of struggles. She also brings experience addressing trauma-related concerns and mood disorders. Clients can expect a mix of reflective listening and practical strategies.
Jenise often pairs emotion-focused conversation with cognitive-behavioral techniques and skills from dialectical approaches to improve coping and communication. She helps people clarify priorities, reduce overwhelm, and build routines that support wellbeing. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online through a variety of formats.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session according to therapist availability.
How online approaches meet emotional and practical needs
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. It creates space to talk through feelings and decide goals together, which helps when someone feels overwhelmed or stuck.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It teaches simple exercises to change unhelpful thinking and build coping routines, useful for anxiety, depression, and panic symptoms.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) adds skills for handling intense emotions and improving communication. It emphasizes distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and clear boundaries, which can help with anger, mood swings, and relationship strain.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about your goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust over time. Decisions about which techniques to use are made together so the work fits your life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let you meet face-to-face for deeper conversation and skills practice. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit short updates, coaching between sessions, or days when a brief touchpoint helps keep progress going. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep momentum between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English