About Jennifer
Jennifer Such is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and addiction. She uses practical, straightforward methods to support daily coping and emotional stability. Jennifer writes in a direct, calm way and aims to make sessions feel approachable for someone under pressure.
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients identify values and act toward them, and on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors.
Background and approach
Jennifer also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for trauma-related memories when appropriate. Her 14 years of experience include work with adults facing grief, relationship strain, parenting challenges, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people hurt by abuse, serious illness, or major life changes.
Sessions focus on concrete strategies, skill practice, and steady pacing rather than long lectures. Clients can expect a collaborative tone. Jennifer helps people set clear goals and choose steps that fit their life.
She listens for strengths and builds on them while addressing barriers to change. Jennifer practices from Missouri and conducts therapy in English. She offers a mix of session formats to fit different schedules and needs.
Practical tools, repeated practice, and short-term coping plans are central to her work.
Therapeutic approaches fit for remote care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small steps toward those values, even when emotions feel overwhelming. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) can be used to reduce the emotional hold of past traumatic memories through structured processing when it fits a client's needs.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will shape a plan that may combine techniques from different approaches and adjust it over time based on what works.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist and client work face to face when visual cues matter. Phone sessions offer a lower-bandwidth option for times when video is difficult. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework guidance, and skill prompts between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, manage follow-up work, and practice skills in the situations where they will be used.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Missouri, Maryland, Texas
- Languages
- English