About Jennifer
Dr. Jennifer Cowen is a California-based psychologist with 23 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, ADHD, depression, grief, and the strain of caring for others. She works with adults facing life transitions, relationship and intimacy concerns, sleep and eating problems, anger, and self-esteem struggles.
Her tone is direct and practical, aimed at someone looking for clear help right now. She trained at the University of California, Los Angeles and completed postdoctoral work focused on early childhood.
Background and approach
Dr. Cowen draws on a mix of well-established approaches to tailor care to each person’s needs. Sessions focus on real-life skills as well as understanding patterns that get in the way of daily functioning.
In practice she blends cognitive-behavioral techniques with acceptance-based and attachment-informed ideas. People can expect structured work on thoughts and behaviors alongside attention to values, relationships, and emotional connection. The goal is clearer coping strategies and more effective choices between sessions.
Dr. Cowen also supports those dealing with trauma, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and complicated grief. She helps people untangle communication problems, commitment and codependency issues, and challenges related to adoption, attachment, or neurodivergence.
Her approach is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Sessions are offered in English and are provided through multiple online formats. She combines clinical experience with a practical focus on what will help someone feel steadier and more capable in daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on values and committed action. It helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck and take steps toward a life that matters to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers concrete tools to change patterns that cause distress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at emotional bonds and helps people understand and work with feelings that drive relationship problems.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, daily struggles, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they will try methods that fit the person’s preferences and adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls replicate a face-to-face session when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging can support short reflections, quick skill practice, and ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit work on mental health into a busy week and to maintain momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- 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)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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