About Jennifer
Jennifer Garland is a licensed clinical social worker with 17 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and addictions. She works with individuals facing trauma, parenting struggles, grief, and relationship or intimacy issues. Jennifer explains things plainly and aims to make the first steps feel less overwhelming for someone reaching out.
She uses a strengths-based outlook, helping people notice and build on what is already working in their lives.
Background and approach
Sessions are tailored to each person’s needs rather than following a one-size-fits-all plan. Jennifer draws on practical tools from cognitive approaches to help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Her background includes long experience supporting people who survived childhood abuse and trauma.
She also helps with issues related to adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, blended family challenges, and caregiver stress. Work may include coping strategies for grief, mood conditions, and the practical stresses of family life. Therapy can include conversational work that focuses on personal stories and patterns, along with motivational strategies to support change.
Jennifer uses elements of attachment-based and narrative approaches to understand relationships and personal history. The mix of approaches is chosen with each person in mind. Jennifer holds an LCSW credential and practices from Missouri.
She offers sessions in English and is able to work with international clients. She aims to create a clear plan with measurable steps so people can track progress and try out new ways of coping.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand how they connect with others and how those patterns affect stress, parenting, and intimacy. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building a respectful, nonjudgmental space where people lead the conversation and feel heard; it is useful for processing grief, low self-esteem, and life changes.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Jennifer will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That means trying practical skills, reflecting on personal stories, and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or a session needs to fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when someone prefers typed communication. These options make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Illinois
- Languages
- English