About Jennifer
Jennifer Elkins is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 11 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, low mood, stress, or big life changes. She focuses on practical strategies that can be used right away to feel more steady and able to cope.
Her approach is warm and interactive. She partners with each person to understand what matters most and to build straightforward skills for day-to-day life.
Background and approach
Sessions often include steps for handling difficult feelings, improving self-worth, and facing relationship or work challenges. Jennifer draws on several methods depending on a person’s needs. She uses client-centered work to keep the conversation focused on the person’s priorities.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking and replace it with more workable options. When trauma is part of the story, she may use EMDR to address distress tied to past events. She also uses motivational interviewing to support change and solution-focused techniques to set small, achievable goals.
These approaches are combined to create a plan that fits each person’s pace and goals. Jennifer aims for clear steps and regular progress rather than long lists of theory. Sessions can include exploring patterns linked to abandonment, codependency, or commitment worries.
Jennifer also addresses issues like money stress, workplace strain, mood swings, seasonal affective challenges, and women’s concerns. She encourages people to start where they are and move forward in manageable ways.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and priorities and keeps sessions grounded in what matters most. It is helpful when someone needs a supportive space to sort through feelings and decide what to change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses clear steps and exercises to reduce anxiety, lift mood, and change patterns that cause distress.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is an approach used when distress from past events gets in the way of daily life. It targets distress tied to specific memories and can reduce their intensity over time.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through options and adjust methods to fit the client’s goals, pace, and comfort. That collaboration helps shape a plan that feels manageable rather than overwhelming.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist and client meet face to face when longer conversation or nonverbal cues help. Phone sessions can be better when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick support, ongoing encouragement, and brief skill practice between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- California, Utah
- Languages
- English