About Jennifer
Jennifer Quinn is a licensed clinical social worker with 16 years of experience. She offers a calm, practical approach for people dealing with anxiety, stress, depression, addiction, and phobias. Jennifer writes treatment plans to match each person’s needs and focuses on doable steps clients can try between sessions.
Jennifer uses strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help clients notice unhelpful thought patterns and try different behaviors. She also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy to help people clarify values and take small, meaningful actions toward them.
Background and approach
For trauma-related concerns, she includes tools that address distressing memories and their effects. Her work often centers on everyday problems like sleep troubles, eating concerns, parenting stress, caregiving strain, and work or career challenges. She also supports people managing mood conditions such as bipolar disorder and depression, and those coping with grief or major life transitions.
Jennifer pays attention to how relationships, communication, and boundaries affect overall wellbeing. Sessions are conducted in English and Jennifer practices in Michigan. She aims to listen without judgment and to tailor language so it feels straightforward and useful.
People who prefer clear tools and step-by-step planning tend to find this approach helpful. Jennifer combines practical skill-building with steady emotional support. She encourages small experiments in daily life to test what works.
The focus is on realistic changes clients can sustain over time.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people get clearer about what matters to them and take small actions that reflect those values. It focuses on noticing thoughts without getting stuck and practicing changes that matter in daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical tools to identify unhelpful thoughts and test different behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, phobias, and mood concerns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) supports better emotional understanding and communication in relationships, helping people connect feelings to needs and respond differently.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Jennifer will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and comfort level. Together they adjust strategies over time, combining approaches as needed to match progress and changing priorities.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video is good for deeper dialogue and exercises that need visual cues, phone calls work well for check-ins or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text sessions allow quick support or short check-ins between meetings. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Illinois, Virginia
- Languages
- English
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