About Jennifer
Jennifer Thomas-Simmons is a licensed clinical social worker with 19 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and major life changes. Her approach is practical and respectful, aimed at making therapy feel approachable and useful from the first session.
She uses conversational, person-focused methods to tailor sessions to each person's needs. That can mean learning new skills to handle panic or phobic reactions, building routines to improve sleep and mood, or addressing relationship and parenting strains.
Background and approach
Sessions are guided by the client’s goals and pace. Jennifer draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She also uses client-centered methods to ensure conversations stay grounded in what matters most to the individual.
Dialectical behavior strategies may be used when stronger emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills are helpful. Her background includes long-term work supporting people with mood and attention concerns, grief, caregiver stress, and life transitions. She also helps with adoption and foster care questions, fertility and postpartum concerns, and issues around identity and sexual orientation.
In sessions she emphasizes clear steps and practical tools. She invites questions and adjusts plans as needed. The aim is steady progress toward manageable goals and a better everyday life.
How practical approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s concerns and goals, using listening and reflective dialogue to guide each session. It helps when someone wants a supportive space to talk through parenting stress, identity questions, grief, or life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, panic, phobic reactions, and depressive patterns. Sessions often include short, actionable exercises to practice between meetings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that match their needs and preferences. That can mean trying CBT skills for anxious thoughts, shifting to DBT strategies for emotion regulation, or keeping the focus client-centered when processing loss or major decisions.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls work well for in-depth conversations and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or a day with limited bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief coaching, ongoing check-ins, or when someone prefers written reflection. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Depression
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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