About Jennifer
Jennifer Hoffman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 19 years of experience. She offers steady, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, parenting concerns, trauma, mood changes, and related struggles. Her tone is calm and respectful, and she aims to help people find tools that fit their life.
Over nearly two decades Jennifer has helped individuals with a wide range of problems including behavioral concerns, anger, ADHD, grief, eating issues, and relationship challenges.
Background and approach
She also addresses burnout and compassion fatigue, and supports people coping with major life changes or complex caregiving demands. Her practice includes attention to trauma and abuse and related recovery needs. Jennifer uses a client-centered stance that focuses on each person’s strengths and goals.
She blends solution-focused steps with mindfulness practices to build practical skills. Conversations are aimed at small, achievable changes that add up over time. Sessions emphasize clear, respectful listening and collaborative planning.
Jennifer tailors discussions and short-term plans to reflect the problem at hand and the client’s priorities. She helps people try techniques, notice what works, and adjust the plan as needed. Her approach is grounded in practical tools rather than jargon.
People who want steady guidance, concrete strategies, and a supportive therapist will find her style approachable. Jennifer welcomes straightforward conversations about goals and next steps.
Therapeutic approaches and how they fit online
Jennifer blends client-centered care with solution-focused work to help people move toward specific goals. Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and understanding each person’s priorities, and it helps people feel heard while planning next steps. Solution-Focused Therapy looks for small, practical changes that can be tried between sessions to create momentum and solve particular problems.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Jennifer will talk with each person about goals, concerns, and preferences and then try approaches that match those needs. She checks in about what is helping and adjusts the plan so the work stays useful and relevant.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls offer face-to-face conversation when a fuller interaction is helpful. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share updates and get brief support between longer sessions. These options increase flexibility and make it simpler to practice new skills regularly.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English