About Jenny
Jenny Ortega is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida who uses a blend of practical therapies to help people manage stress, anxiety, and mood concerns. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to make therapy straightforward and relatable. Her style is warm and down-to-earth, focused on skills people can use between sessions.
With four years of clinical experience, Ortega combines Client-Centered Therapy with cognitive and mindfulness-based tools. She works with people facing depression, bipolar mood patterns, trauma and abuse, and concerns tied to identity and relationships.
Background and approach
Common issues she addresses include sleep problems, self-esteem, grief, and coping with life changes. Her background includes a Master of Social Work with an advanced clinical concentration from Saint Leo University. Ortega has worked in varied settings and with diverse populations, which informs a flexible, person-focused approach.
She draws on techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy when helpful. Sessions can include teaching breathing and grounding practices, challenging unhelpful thoughts, or building communication and coping skills. She often blends short-term solution-focused work with longer-term processing when needed.
Ortega emphasizes practical steps that fit into busy lives. Therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. People who prefer Spanish may choose to work in that language.
To begin, a simple matching and scheduling process connects someone to a first session.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, understanding, and building a trusting connection. Sessions center on the person and their goals, with the therapist reflecting concerns and helping clients find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behavior and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and mood regulation.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and try strategies that fit daily life. Together they adjust methods if something does not feel like a good match, combining short-term, skills-based work with deeper processing when needed.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow real-time conversations similar to in-person sessions. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging make it possible to send updates, check in between sessions, or access support when a full session is not practical. These options help people fit therapy into work, school, and family routines while using the approaches above to build helpful skills and clearer thinking.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish