About Jenna
Jenna Lapointe is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on blending empathic listening with practical behavior change. She brings 13 years of clinical experience and aims to help people notice how thoughts, feelings, and body sensations interact. Jenna works to make therapy straightforward and useful for everyday life.
She favors a client-centered, process-oriented way of working. Sessions usually begin by mapping out what a person wants to change and why that change matters.
Background and approach
Jenna then introduces simple skills to test in daily life so people can see small shifts build into bigger ones. Her practice draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, mindfulness approaches, and EMDR when appropriate. These tools are used to address anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, ADHD-related concerns, grief, and stress among other issues.
Jenna explains techniques in plain language and practices them together with clients during sessions. Jenna also supports people managing relationship strain, career stress, sleep and eating struggles, compulsive behaviors, and impulse control concerns. She pays attention to how family of origin, attachment, and shame shape patterns that keep people stuck.
Work focuses on spotting triggers, changing unhelpful responses, and building new routines. Jenna has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in social work from West Virginia University. She holds LCSW and LICSW credentials and provides services from West Virginia.
Her approach is collaborative, concrete, and aimed at helping people practice manageable steps between sessions.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then commit to actions aligned with their values. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying small behavior experiments to change mood and functioning. It is useful for anxiety, mood issues, and sleep or eating concerns. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) targets distressing memories and the body’s responses to them, and can be used when trauma or abuse history is affecting current life.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so work can fit into busy schedules. Video sessions allow real-time skill practice and guided exercises, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a simpler check-in, and messaging or chat can support short updates or homework discussion. These options make it easier to keep momentum between sessions and to arrange appointments around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- West Virginia, Illinois
- Languages
- English
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