About Jennifer
Jennifer Gadberry is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 23 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for common struggles like anxiety, stress, depression, ADHD, and parenting concerns. Her approach is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people take small, useful steps forward.
She began her career as a crisis counselor and later worked in outpatient settings and a residential treatment center for children and teens. She has also taught psychology at the college level and regularly interacts with young adults facing life transitions.
Background and approach
This mix of roles gives her experience with a wide range of life stages and challenges. Jennifer uses a client-centered way of working that emphasizes each person’s strengths. She blends that with cognitive behavioral methods to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She also uses solution-focused techniques to set clear, achievable goals and to track progress. Typical tools in sessions include thought-reframing exercises, relaxation and mindfulness practices, and narrative activities that help people tell their story differently. She often helps parents manage family conflict and supports people coping with grief, trauma, eating concerns, and major life changes.
Her style is collaborative and respectful. She listens without judgment and helps clients set realistic goals. Many people find the combination of practical exercises and steady support useful as they work toward clearer thinking and better daily routines.
Online approaches that focus on goals and daily coping
Jennifer uses client-centered therapy to make the session about the person in front of her. That means she listens first, follows the client’s pace, and helps people discover their own strengths and next steps. Client-centered work often helps when someone needs a nonjudgmental space to sort feelings and priorities.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. CBT includes practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and to build new routines, which can help with anxiety, depression, ADHD-related challenges, and mood swings. Solution-focused therapy is another tool she uses to set clear, reachable goals and to focus on what’s working now rather than only on the problem.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the early work together. She will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and preferences, and will adjust the plan as progress is made. This collaborative process helps make sessions feel purposeful and directed.
Online sessions are available by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which offers flexibility for different days and needs. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be quicker and use less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are useful for short check-ins, written reflection, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain continuity across life changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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