About Jennifer
Jennifer Quirina is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, self-esteem struggles, career questions, and major life changes. Jennifer focuses on practical steps people can use right away and listens for what matters most to each person.
Her background includes work with adoptees, people navigating adoption and foster care, and those dealing with attachment concerns. She also has a particular interest in issues that affect LGBT people, fertility challenges, and the perinatal and new parenting period.
Background and approach
This mix of experience shapes how she tailors support to individual needs. Jennifer blends straightforward strategies from solution-focused work with cognitive behavioral ideas and skills drawn from dialectical approaches. Sessions tend to center on clear goals, tools to manage stress, and ways to change unhelpful patterns.
She aims to help people feel heard, understood, and more able to cope. Clients can expect a calm, practical style that emphasizes problem solving and emotion regulation. Jennifer helps people break big worries into manageable steps and practices that fit daily life.
She explains techniques in plain language and checks in about what helps. Licensed as a clinical social worker in Illinois, she brings years of hands-on experience to each session. Her approach suits people who want focused, skill-based support for life transitions and ongoing stressors.
How Jennifer's Approaches Work Online
Jennifer uses practical techniques drawn from solution-focused work, cognitive behavioral ideas, and dialectical behavioral skills. Solution-focused work centers on small, achievable goals and what is already working, which helps when you need quick direction during life changes. Cognitive behavioral approaches look at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teach straightforward tools to reduce anxiety and shift unhelpful patterns. Dialectical behavioral skills offer emotion regulation and distress-tolerance practices that are useful when stress feels overwhelming or intense.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and try methods that match those needs. If something does not fit, she will adjust the plan so the sessions remain useful and collaborative.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversation time, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for brief updates, quick coping tools, or when someone prefers typing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep continuity of care when life gets complicated.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Fertility issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, California
- Languages
- English