About Jennifer
Jennifer Spinner is a licensed social worker who offers steady, practical support for people facing anxiety, stress, grief, relationship troubles, and phobias. She brings 25 years of clinical experience and a calm, nonjudgmental manner to sessions. Jennifer speaks English and Spanish and practices from Florida as a DC LICSW and ND LCSW.
Jennifer draws on a mix of techniques to match each person's needs. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and take steps that match their values.
Background and approach
Attachment-Based and Client-Centered approaches guide how she builds trust and listens closely to what matters most. Her style is straightforward and team-oriented. She starts from where the person is and shapes a plan together.
Sessions focus on practical skills, clearer communication, and small changes that add up over time. Jennifer has broad experience across life stressors including trauma, addiction, mood disorders, caregiver strain, body image, and parenting challenges. She also supports people managing chronic illness, cancer-related concerns, and work or career transitions.
People can use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to meet with her. Costs vary with location and therapist availability and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button and complete the short matching questionnaire to schedule with her.
How these approaches work in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It’s useful for anxiety, stress, and when fear limits daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches clear tools to change them, which is helpful for phobias, depression, and sleep problems. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how relationships shape feelings and helps people develop safer ways of connecting and communicating.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs and preferences. You and the therapist decide together which techniques to use and adjust them as you progress.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and teaching of coping skills. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share updates or get timely support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- 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 and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida, North Dakota, District of Columbia, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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