About Jenna
Jenna Lapointe uses a client-centered approach that combines practical skills with mindful awareness. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and she draws on methods such as acceptance and commitment and cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice what matters and act on it. Jenna writes in a direct, calm way and focuses on clear steps a person can use between sessions.
She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and symptoms from trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
She also supports those facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, sleep and eating difficulties, and people struggling with self-esteem or body image. Jenna works with concerns around ADHD, bipolar mood patterns, compassion fatigue, and major life transitions. Jenna brings 13 years of clinical experience to each session.
She practices in West Virginia and holds the LCSW credential in Illinois and the LICSW in West Virginia. Her background includes outpatient mental health work and a mix of therapeutic methods chosen to match a person’s goals. In sessions she blends talking, focused skills practice, and mindfulness exercises.
Some time is spent noticing thoughts and feelings, and some time is spent trying new actions that move a person toward what they value. EMDR may be used when trauma memories are part of the problem, while CBT techniques address unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Jenna asks people what changes they want and adjusts approaches to fit each person’s needs.
She aims for straightforward, usable strategies that make daily life more manageable. The emphasis is on small, steady changes people can practice outside sessions to build lasting improvement.
How Jenna’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to change mood and functioning. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) helps process distressing memories so they feel less disruptive; it is often used when trauma symptoms are present.Picking the best approach is a collaborative process. Jenna will talk with each person about goals, symptom patterns, and preferences before suggesting methods. Together they try strategies and adjust the plan if something does not fit or is not helping.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and guided exercises. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people share thoughts and practice skills between sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and varied daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- West Virginia, Illinois
- Languages
- English