About Jennifer
Jennifer Quinn is a licensed social worker who brings 16 years of clinical experience to her work. She practices from Michigan and focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and major life changes. Jennifer aims to create a respectful and compassionate space so people can talk through difficult moments and find practical next steps.
Her approach is collaborative and tailored to each person. She uses tools from acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioral strategies to help people notice thoughts and take actions that match their values.
Background and approach
She also draws on mindfulness and emotionally-focused ideas when relationships and connection matter. Jennifer has supported people dealing with grief, caregiver strain, trauma and abuse, and issues around self-esteem and body image. She also works with eating and sleeping problems, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and substance-related concerns.
Her background includes helping people facing major transitions like divorce, adoption and foster care matters, and career shifts. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented. Conversations often include small experiments to try between meetings and simple skills to reduce overwhelm.
Jennifer explains options clearly and adapts plans as needs change. Her training includes the LMSW and the LCSW licenses, and she draws on a broad range of strategies from evidence-informed approaches. People who want a steady, supportive clinician will find an emphasis on clear steps, empathy, and real-world coping skills.
Online approaches that focus on action and connection
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It’s often useful for anxiety, low motivation, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and offers practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It can help with depression, anxiety, and problems like sleep or eating. Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on understanding feelings in relationships and building safer emotional connection when intimacy or communication feels difficult.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will review your concerns and goals and suggest methods that fit your needs. You and the therapist decide together which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video lets you see verbal and nonverbal cues for deeper conversation. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or you need a quicker check-in. Live chat and text messaging support shorter updates, skill practice between sessions, or staying connected when a full appointment isn’t possible. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Illinois, Virginia
- Languages
- English