About Jennifer
Jennifer Covington offers calm, practical help for people feeling overwhelmed. She meets people where they are and focuses on small changes that make daily life easier. Jennifer is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - based in North Carolina with 13 years of experience.
She listens for what matters most and helps set clear, manageable goals. Sessions focus on reducing anxiety, easing depression, and addressing stress related to work, relationships, and parenting.
Background and approach
Jennifer also supports people facing addiction, grief, trauma, and challenges with self‑esteem or boundaries. Her approach combines familiar, evidence-based methods in a straightforward way. She uses client-centered listening to understand each person, cognitive behavioral strategies to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and mindfulness practices to build calm and focus.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas and motivational techniques are woven in when they fit the client’s goals. Jennifer tailors conversations and steps to each person’s situation. She helps clients break big problems into smaller actions they can try between sessions.
The focus is practical - coping skills, communication tools, and plans that fit busy lives. She offers care for adults who live in North Carolina and frames treatment around the goals people bring. Jennifer works collaboratively to track progress and adjust plans over time.
If someone is ready to try therapy, she guides the next steps toward clearer priorities and more manageable days.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without letting them control actions. It focuses on clear personal values and small steps toward what matters, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It uses practical exercises and experiments to test unhelpful thoughts and build new habits, useful for anxiety, low mood, and sleep or eating concerns.
Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person’s priorities. The therapist listens deeply and reflects what matters most so clients can make their own choices and plans.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options and try methods that match a person’s goals and style. Decisions are made collaboratively and adjusted as progress is tracked.
Online sessions can be easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls let for face-to-face conversations from different locations. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be a good shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging support ongoing coaching, quick check-ins, and tools to use between longer sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English