About Jennifer
Jennifer Shaw-Klymyshyn is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life changes. Jennifer offers straightforward, person-centered care that aims to make daily life more manageable.
She uses practical strategies to address mood and thought difficulties, as well as problems linked to relationships and substance use. Sessions often involve looking at how current patterns developed and trying small changes that can make a noticeable difference.
Background and approach
She draws on brief, goal-focused methods when people want quicker relief and deeper, exploratory work when that fits the situation. Jennifer also supports people dealing with parenting strain, caregiver stress, compassion fatigue, and aging-related challenges. She helps those coming to terms with family of origin issues, codependency, domestic violence aftermath, and feelings of guilt or shame.
Her approach adapts to what each person brings to the room rather than using a single method for everyone. Practical coping skills are balanced with attention to personal history. Conversations can include changing unhelpful thinking, finding motivation for difficult steps, and re-authoring life stories that feel stuck.
Jennifer explains ideas in plain language and focuses on actions that can be used between sessions. Sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules. People who choose to start will complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule according to available morning and early afternoon appointments.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress by giving clear skills to practice between sessions.Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change. It is often used when someone is unsure about taking steps for addiction, health changes, or other big decisions.
Jennifer sees choosing an approach as a team effort. She will talk with the person about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan over time. The aim is to match tools to what actually helps someone make progress.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let therapists and clients work visually when that helps. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, ongoing support, or shorter exchanges between scheduled sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into mornings and early afternoons and to keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English