About Jennifer
Jennifer Wells is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Texas with 14 years of experience. She began her career in community mental health and has supported people through a wide range of life stresses. Jennifer focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier and more in control.
She uses straightforward strategies drawn from cognitive behavioral ideas and solution-focused work. Jennifer pays attention to how past attachment experiences shape current relationships.
Background and approach
She also brings mindfulness practices into sessions to help slow down racing thoughts and bring calm. In sessions she helps people name the problem, try small changes, and track what improves. Common concerns she addresses include anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting stress, addictions, and career questions.
She also supports people dealing with family of origin issues, blended family concerns, and caregiver strain. Jennifer emphasizes building new habits and shifting old patterns. She explains how the brain learns and practices new responses so changes stick.
The work is practical and collaborative, with tools to use between sessions. People who prefer clear steps, evidence-informed techniques, and interest in how relationships shape behavior may find her style a good fit. Jennifer aims to make therapy approachable and useful, helping clients move toward manageable, lasting change.
How her approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. In online sessions she helps clients spot those patterns in their current relationships and practice new ways of connecting and communicating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. Over video or messaging she teaches simple experiments and skills to test beliefs and change unhelpful habits. Mindfulness practice teaches short attention and breathing exercises to reduce reactivity and manage anxiety and stress. Choosing the right approach is part of the process. She works together with each person to pick methods that match their goals, preferences, and daily life. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan as needed so therapy fits the person rather than the other way around. Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and fuller interaction. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, skill reminders, or support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and busy schedules while still using attachment, CBT, and mindfulness tools effectively.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English