About Jennifer
Jennifer Thomas-Simmons is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida with 19 years of experience. She uses a practical, person-focused approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and big life changes. Her style is respectful and down-to-earth, aiming to make conversations feel straightforward and useful.
She draws on Client-Centered methods to listen and shape therapy around each person’s needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used to spot and change unhelpful thinking and behaviors.
Background and approach
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills help with emotion regulation and coping when stress or intense feelings arise. Jennifer supports people facing parenting strain, relationship and communication problems, and career concerns. She also helps with grief, sleep and eating difficulties, mood disorders such as bipolar, and challenges like ADHD, obsessions or panic attacks.
Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, fertility concerns, and postpartum depression. Sessions focus on practical steps and clear goals. Conversations include problem-solving, skill-building, and short-term strategies when needed.
Jennifer adapts plans as progress is made and priorities change. Clients can expect a collaborative process where their goals guide the work. She encourages small changes that add up over time and offers coaching alongside traditional therapy tools.
Her aim is to help people find clearer direction and greater resilience in daily life.
Using practical therapies online to build coping skills
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person without judgment. The therapist follows the client’s lead and tailors conversations so the work fits the person’s goals and values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches simple steps to change them; it is often used for anxiety, depression, panic, and sleep or eating concerns.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try a few techniques, and adjust the plan as progress is seen. Clients help set priorities so sessions stay focused on what matters most to them.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can fit a walk or a break at work when stepping away from a screen is easier. Live chat and text messaging work well for short check-ins, coaching-style support, or when someone wants to reflect in writing. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it around daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Depression
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English