About Jennifer
Jennifer Linarello is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 23 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, or major life changes. Jennifer aims to create a calm and practical space where clients can talk things through and find usable steps forward.
She focuses on each person’s strengths and resilience. Early work concentrates on building rapport and identifying what already works in a client's life.
Background and approach
Sessions are down-to-earth and collaborative, with an emphasis on clear goals and small, manageable changes. Jennifer draws on several therapy styles to match a person’s needs. She uses client-centered techniques to keep sessions focused on what matters to the client.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness methods provide practical skills for managing intense emotions and stress. Her background includes long-term clinical practice in Indiana, supporting people with a wide range of concerns such as trauma and abuse, parenting and adoption issues, ADHD, substance struggles, and career stress.
She also helps with intimacy-related problems, sleep difficulties, and caregiver strain. Sessions can include skill practice, problem-solving, and reflective conversation. Jennifer aims to help clients leave with concrete strategies they can use between sessions.
The tone is warm, respectful, and focused on progress rather than perfection.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Jennifer often blends Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to keep work practical and focused. Client-Centered Therapy means sessions revolve around the client’s priorities, with the therapist listening closely and reflecting what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and try small experiments to change them.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness techniques to teach emotion regulation and stress management skills. DBT-style skills are useful for handling intense feelings and improving interpersonal effectiveness. Mindfulness practices help people notice sensations, reduce reactivity, and build steady routines.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. Together they decide which techniques to prioritize and adjust those choices as progress is made.
Online formats offered include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which makes scheduling more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or need less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or use short, focused exchanges when that suits their day.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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