About Jennifer
Jennifer Hayden, LPC, helps people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, phobias, addiction, grief, or major life changes. She listens without judgment and works with each person to set clear, realistic goals. Her approach focuses on practical steps that can be used between sessions.
With 22 years of experience, Jennifer blends talking-based work with structured techniques. She uses client-centered methods to follow what matters most to each person. She also offers cognitive behavioral strategies to identify unhelpful thinking and build new coping habits.
Background and approach
Jennifer includes approaches that address traumatic memories and strong emotional reactions. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing helps some people process traumatic experiences in a way that can reduce distress. Mindfulness practices are used to help clients notice thoughts and sensations without getting swept up in them.
Her background includes work in mental health and substance use, and she approaches addiction with an understanding of it as a health condition. This perspective aims to reduce stigma and focus on practical recovery steps. She also supports people dealing with caregiving stress, chronic illness, and complicated family history concerns.
Clients looking for flexible ways to connect can use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sessions are shaped around personal goals like improving sleep, managing panic, or changing patterns that keep someone stuck. Jennifer works collaboratively and adjusts techniques to fit each person’s needs.
Approaches that translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on what matters to the client and on building trust through listening and collaboration. In online sessions this means the therapist follows the client's priorities and adapts pacing and exercises to the format. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and then teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns; it works well in video or phone sessions because homework and skills practice can be reviewed between meetings.EMDR offers a different way to address traumatic memories by guiding attention while processing distressing events; components of this approach can be adapted for remote work and can help reduce strong reactions tied to past experiences. The therapist will help decide which approaches to try and will work together with the client to find the best fit based on goals and comfort. This is a collaborative process and methods can be adjusted as needs change.
Online formats offer flexibility and accessibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to send brief updates, get support between sessions, or work in shorter bursts during a busy day. These options help people keep consistent progress while fitting therapy into their daily lives.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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