About Jennifer
Jennifer Smith is a licensed clinical social worker in Indiana with 11 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or depression. She also supports those coping with trauma, shame, addiction, and issues around intimacy and relationships.
She approaches each person as an individual rather than using a single method for everyone. In sessions she listens closely and builds a plan that fits a person's needs and life.
Background and approach
That plan can include practical steps to manage symptoms and work toward clearer goals. Jennifer uses a mix of evidence-informed approaches such as cognitive behavioral tools, emotion-focused work, and acceptance-based strategies. She draws on attachment ideas to help people understand relationship patterns and heal from past hurts.
Those methods are chosen to match what the person wants to change or learn. Her work also covers concerns like chronic pain and illness, codependency, control issues, and life transitions such as divorce or midlife shifts. She offers support around financial stress, veteran-related challenges, and parenting stresses as individual issues people bring to therapy.
Conversations in therapy include exploring thoughts and emotions, practicing new coping skills, and experimenting with small behavior changes. The aim is practical progress that fits into everyday life. If someone wants a calm, respectful place to sort through hard feelings, she offers steady support and clear steps forward.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, chronic pain, and feeling stuck in life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going, which is useful for depression, anxiety, and some compulsive patterns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on emotion and attachment patterns in relationships to improve emotional connection and reduce distress.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Jennifer will listen to a person's goals and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. That decision is collaborative, and plans can change as progress is made or needs shift.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation when bandwidth allows. Phone sessions work when a shorter check-in or less data use is needed. Live chat or text can fit quick check-ins, daily reflections, or people who prefer typing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, and medical care while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English