About Jennafer
Jennafer Matthews is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 11 years of clinical experience based in Wisconsin. She offers a steady, straightforward presence for people coping with anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, and major life transitions. Jennafer aims to make therapy feel approachable and human, not intimidating.
She favors a person-centered way of working, which means she listens first and follows each person's priorities. Clients can expect a compassionate tone, clear feedback, and practical steps they can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Jennafer also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help change unhelpful thinking and mindfulness skills to manage stress in the moment. Her approach includes solution-focused conversations to break problems into manageable pieces. Motivational interviewing can help when someone feels stuck or unsure about change.
Trauma-informed thinking guides her work when past hurts affect daily life. Sessions often cover everyday struggles: managing mood swings, improving self-esteem, navigating relationship or parenting stress, coping with grief, and handling career pressure. She also addresses issues that commonly co-occur, like chronic illness, caregiving strain, substance use patterns, and attachment concerns.
Jennafer keeps things collaborative and paced to each person's comfort. She uses humor where it helps and stays direct when something needs clarity. The goal is steady progress and skills a person can use long after sessions end.
How practical approaches translate to online care
Client-centered work focuses on each person's goals and values. Online sessions begin by asking what matters most and build a plan around that. This approach helps when someone needs a flexible pace or clear priorities for change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. In remote sessions this often means identifying unhelpful thinking, testing small behavior changes, and reviewing results together. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related challenges, and mood swing management.
Mindfulness therapy teaches short practices to reduce reactivity and manage stress in the moment. Online work can include guided breathing, body awareness exercises, and brief mindful check-ins that fit into a busy day.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Jennafer will work with each person to try methods and adjust based on what helps most. She aims to match strategies to goals, preferences, and day-to-day life rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online sessions offer practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face work and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a break. Live chat and text-based messaging make short check-ins or pacing between appointments simple. These options help people continue therapy around school, work, parenting, or health constraints.
Questions people ask
What concerns does Jennafer commonly address?
How would you describe her therapy style?
What is her clinical background?
Which credentials and region apply to her practice?
In which languages are sessions offered?
What session formats are available?
How is cost handled for sessions?
What are the steps to begin therapy?
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.