About Jenna
Jenna Acker is a licensed clinical social worker who supports people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, and major life changes. She offers straightforward, evidence-based care for concerns like eating issues, mood shifts, and obsessive thoughts. Jenna aims to make starting therapy simple and approachable for someone juggling parenting and daily life.
She focuses on practical strategies that people can use between sessions. That often means breaking problems into small steps and trying tools that fit daily routines.
Background and approach
Sessions cover coping skills, managing cravings or compulsions, and improving how people talk about difficult topics. Jenna has three years of clinical experience in Wisconsin and brings a respectful, inclusive stance to each meeting. She pays attention to how identity, discrimination, or gender-related concerns affect a person’s wellbeing.
That perspective shapes treatment choices and everyday goals. Her work includes support for aging and geriatric issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, body image, hoarding, and co-occurring conditions. Jenna also addresses domestic violence, substance concerns, and phobias with practical planning and safety-minded discussion when relevant.
People looking for flexible options can meet by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Jenna asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire to begin and then schedule sessions that fit their lives.
Evidence-based approaches and online care that fit your life
Jenna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and skills people can use right away. One common approach she applies emphasizes building coping skills for anxiety and stress through step-by-step practice and gradual exposure to feared situations. This helps reduce avoidance and builds confidence over time. Another frequent focus is managing addictive behaviors and compulsions by developing routines, identifying triggers, and creating concrete relapse-prevention plans to use when cravings or urges arise.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Jenna works with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day realities. She adjusts methods as needed and reviews progress together so treatment stays useful and connected to what matters most to the client.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video helps when seeing nonverbal cues matters, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and messaging works well for short updates or scheduling. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep continuity when routines change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Intellectual disability
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English