About Jennifer
Jennifer Spinner is a licensed social worker with 25 years of clinical experience. She offers patient, down-to-earth support for people coping with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and relationship concerns. Jennifer works in English and Spanish and practices from Florida.
She favors practical approaches that focus on what helps right now. Sessions aim to clarify goals, build coping skills, and strengthen communication. Jennifer listens closely and helps people name what matters most to them.
Background and approach
Her background includes many years in counseling and over a decade in independent practice. She has personal experience with major life challenges, including cancer and raising a child with special needs, which informs her empathy and perspective. That lived experience shapes how she responds to loss, health challenges, and caregiving strain.
Jennifer blends several therapy styles to match each person’s needs. She draws on acceptance-focused work, cognitive techniques, attachment perspectives, and skills training to address habits, emotions, and patterns that get in the way of daily life. Together with the client she builds a plan that targets concrete steps and measurable progress.
Her approach is collaborative and nonjudgmental. She emphasizes validation and practical problem solving over jargon. Clients who want clear tools for coping, improved relationships, or help moving through a transition often find this style straightforward and useful.
How therapy approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that fit their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and when life changes make decisions feel overwhelming. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers concrete exercises to shift unhelpful patterns. CBT can help with mood, worry, eating and sleep difficulties, and managing day-to-day tasks. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through goals and preferences and then suggest ways of working together. Changes are made as needed so the plan fits the person’s pace and priorities. Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people work face-to-face from different places. Phone sessions are useful when lower bandwidth or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer brief check-ins, skill practice, and flexible support between sessions. These options help people stay consistent with therapy while balancing work, caregiving, or health concerns.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida, North Dakota, District of Columbia, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English, Spanish