About Jennifer
Jennifer Smith greets people who are nervous about starting therapy with calm, practical support. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 23 years of experience and she helps people facing anxiety, depression, grief, and life changes. Her style is straightforward and flexible, focused on real concerns and small steps forward.
She began with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Ithaca College and later earned a Master of Social Work from Adelphi University.
Background and approach
Early work included a psychiatric hospital role where she helped with testing, group sessions, and patient intake. She also worked in New York City’s Early Intervention Program, then moved into community mental health in New York and New Jersey. Jennifer has worked with many different struggles across age ranges.
She has experience with mood disorders, eating-related issues, trauma and abuse, anger, and self-harm behaviors. She has also supported people wrestling with identity questions and attachment-related concerns. She describes therapy as a collaborative process shaped around each person’s goals.
Her practice draws from several approaches so she can match methods to a person’s needs. She emphasizes listening without judgment and helping people build confidence in their strengths. She typically replies to messages and emails in the afternoons through about 7pm and is not available on weekends.
Jennifer practices in New Jersey and offers sessions using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. She values working at a pace people can manage and helping them find clearer ways to cope and connect.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take action that's consistent with their values while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early patterns of connection and how they affect current relationships; it helps people understand trust, closeness, and repeated behavior patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments and behavior changes to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jennifer uses a collaborative process to figure out which methods fit each person’s goals and preferences. She may combine elements from different approaches and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let the conversation be close to in-person sessions. Phone sessions can be simpler if bandwidth is limited or if being on camera feels like too much. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins, follow-ups, and homework support easier to fit into busy days. These options help people keep therapy consistent and accessible while they try strategies between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English