About Terry
Terry Jensen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with thirty years of practice. She works with adults on issues like anxiety, depression, grief, relationship struggles, parenting stress, and trauma. Terry takes a straightforward, compassionate approach and helps people make practical changes that matter in daily life.
Her work blends behavioral and psychodynamic ideas with mindfulness and client-centered listening. Sessions focus on how past events shape current feelings and patterns. She uses concrete techniques to reduce anxiety and manage mood, while also exploring deeper themes that keep problems repeating.
Background and approach
Terry has professional experience in foster care and healthcare settings, and she has worked with adults across a wide age range. She draws on that background when supporting people facing caregiving burdens, aging issues, or the emotional fallout of medical challenges. Practical skills for coping are a common focus.
In the room she aims to make people comfortable and respected. Conversations move at a pace each person can handle. Goals are set together and strategies are chosen to fit everyday life and values.
Therapy with Terry often includes acceptance and commitment ideas, mindfulness practices, and cognitive-behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts and habits. Over time the work is aimed at clearer choices, less reactivity, and more meaning in relationships and daily routines.
Practical therapeutic approaches for online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on small steps toward what matters most, and is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses straightforward exercises to change unhelpful thinking and build new habits that reduce distress and improve daily functioning.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention skills to reduce reactivity and increase calm. Short practices are used between sessions to help manage stress and stay grounded during difficult moments.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Terry will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video is useful for a fuller conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging work well for quick check-ins or ongoing support. These options allow people to connect from varied locations and schedules while keeping focus on achievable, practical progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English