About Jennifer
Jennifer Gaumer is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with fifteen years of practice in California. She has worked in hospital child guidance clinics, residential treatment centers, and community parenting programs for teens in foster care. Jennifer draws on many years helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and trauma-related problems.
She uses straightforward talk, practical skill-building, and problem-solving in sessions. Jennifer aims to create a warm and interactive space where people can try new ways of coping.
Background and approach
She often focuses on patterns around attachment, communication, and family of origin issues. Jennifer helps people who are struggling with parenting stress, relationship conflict, grief, addictions, or changes in mood such as depression or bipolar symptoms. She also supports those coping with panic attacks, social anxiety, ADHD, and effects of sexual assault or other abuse.
Sessions commonly include exercises to manage strong emotions and reduce overwhelming reactions. Her background includes a Master of Social Work from the University of Connecticut School of Social Work and an undergraduate degree in psychology from Clark University. She also has experience as a forensic interviewer, which informs her work with trauma and abuse survivors.
Outside of therapy, Jennifer gardens, renovates her home, reads, and travels with her husband and two daughters. She describes the work of beginning therapy as an act of courage and aims to help people build strength and practical skills as they move forward.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values; it can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying different behaviors to reduce symptoms like panic, low mood, or social anxiety. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and improve emotion regulation for stress and trauma recovery.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what feels most helpful. Clients often combine elements from different approaches to match their needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect - video calls for a fuller face-to-face feel, phone sessions when bandwidth or movement is easier, live chat for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options let people fit therapy around work, family, and daily routines, and make it easier to continue work during life changes or busy periods.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California, Connecticut
- Languages
- English